Rúben Prey

Ian Jackson is just so good, in my opinion.

Reuben Prey is back as well.

But there's question marks up and down the roster, Greg, with St. John's just because you don't know who's going to be eligible, who's not.

And like you said, Keyshawn Hall, is he going to be somebody that steps up? Donnie Freeman goes down with an injury.

Uh, I considered like Mike Nwoko at Xavier.

Um, I considered Ruben Prey, fuck it.

I was like, "Why not?"

Yeah.

He's a tall and agile player, 2.3 meters tall, with a lot of defensive potential and an evolution that will be very interesting on the offensive side.

So I'm here following a little the example of Miaschetta, Ruben Prey, who are players who jumped to the American side of basketball after being here in Europe.

With Miguel, the first thing that stands out is his defensive versatility, which is so appreciated in the higher levels of American basketball.

Defending higher players, exchange for lower players, he has an unusual space coverage, he has a wingspan that combines the fluidity with which he moves, speed and strength to ensure his inner position and collect highlights, as he used to collect them.

He only played 18 minutes a game last year.

Ruben Prey is back.

He played 11 minutes a game, and people seem to just love him now, which is interesting, too.

Lefty, Louis Topolis is back, and then some other names.

He's going to score at a high level.

That's a match made in heaven for him and a match made in hell for the rest of the conference, because that is going to be terrifying.

Yeah, Ruben Prey.

I don't know when he suddenly became the best center in the world, but that's how the media seems to talk about him

He's had an okay career.

Can Ian Jackson actually pop this season? Ruben Prey had himself a little moment there in the tournament, but Yesufu is the guy that I'm most intrigued to watch, I think outside of James at Marquette and seeing how UConn balances out overall.

Um, there's a lot of talent in this league, but it does still f- like I, I think Kwame Evans Jr., uh, the transfer at Oregon at Nova could be, could be some guy that pops alongside Perkins.

I, I wanna see how these teams kinda just, how they develop over the course of the first four, six weeks of the season.

And then at St. John's, two guys, Ian Jackson, we talked about him briefly before, but the offense just has to be better, whether it's the playmaking, the shooting, something has to take a leap.

And then Ruben Prey is...

I'm still not there in terms of NBA draft stock, but some of the numbers are really encouraging.

The minute share and the volume is super low, so can he stay on the court? Can he refine the decision-making, slow the game down a little bit while still making some of the impacts that the numbers say he does? If he does at that size, he'll generate some second-round buzz.

We know that Rick Pitino is bullish on Ian Jackson in his second year at St. John's after transferring a year ago from North Carolina.

And we know that Ruben Prey is going to be on every breakout list in America.

St. John's, though, needs to add to that troika here to have a chance to be a dark horse Final Four team.

Quinn Ellis, to me, is the key to this whole thing.

He's somebody that will make Ian Jackson better.

He will make Tunde Yesufu better.

He'll get Ruben Prey baskets.

I think he's a little bit bigger than this guy, but he reminds me a little bit of Marcus Williams, who played for Jim Calhoun at UConn 20 years ago.

I think he's going to be an absolute problem, 6'5", 220.

Ruben Prey proved that he, A, he should have been playing in that Sweet 16 game more against Duke because he's the only reason why they were... ahead by so much early and he kind of, I don't know, unexplicably didn't end up playing a bunch.

If Keyshawn Hall is eligible, which apparently he's a graduate guy, I don't think his is more about playing in the G League or any of that stuff or having any of the TROs that they have.

That's more just a 5-5 rule.