Solo Ball

... uh, with, with a back court of Demery and Mullins, like, that's a good place to start.

I would love Solo Ball being a part of this team.

Stinks that he's not.

Yeah.

But I do believe he can attack closeouts, make a play, and then once he gets to the lane on himself, if he can create the advantage, I do trust him enough to make a smart play.

And you bring up such a great point, Jim, and that's why you go to UConn to show some of the things that, like, people might want to see more of I think there's going to be so much on the table for him because he's going to play at UConn if that makes sense like I think the on ball stuff people are going to critique like if I could just prognosticate for a second I think that people are going to critique like can he do more with the ball in his hands because he's going to play at UConn And they do have Silas Demery, right? They do have Solo Ball.

They're going to have other people who are going to...

Do they want to lean into Nick Hemenia doing stuff with the ball? Because in his high school film, similarly to Colvin Landrieu, he showed some on-ball stuff that was really interesting for me in my pre-cycle evaluation for him.

I know we're forgetting somebody.

Solo Ball.

That's who we're forgetting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so then there is a world where.

But Solo Ball, didn't he hurt his foot? Or was that last year?

He started the last two years.

He started 35 games two years ago, 39 games last year.

I love Sally's Demery.

I think I really still like a lot solo ball.

UConn fans probably know the love-hate with solo ball.

Guy can play, can carry you in a game.

Also could make some decisions where you're like, okay, maybe you want that one back.

But what UConn's been able to do is they've had retention.

And we didn't even mention solo ball.

Right.

I was practicing the other day to cast this off.

Um, what is interesting about this commitment to me is what it kind of says about their expectation for the back court this season.

And I don't think it really necessarily surprises anyone, but right now currently on the UConn roster, you have Silas Demary, and you have Braylon Mullins, and you have Solo Ball, and you have Junior County, right? And that's four guys that are all, uh, if you are just kind of going based off of what is on paper, may be expected to be back next season.

I think you can probably throw Niels Machowski in there as well, um, because of the fact that all of these guys are eligible for five and five.

Basically, everybody that's on a college basketball roster this year is, in theory, going to be eligible to be on a college basketball roster next year because of what the, this rule that is going to be implemented when it comes to eligibility.

Um, with a degree in hand, I, I mean, if that's when he wants to go to the NBA, uh, if he's a first round pick, if he's a top 40 pick, I think it makes a lot of sense for a lot of people if he, um, decides that that is the decision that he wants to make.

I would not be shocked if in this draft class he ends up being a late first round pick based off of the way, uh, that I, I think that he will end up performing in some of the t- uh, physical tools that he has.

Which means that it will be Bowman, Junior County, and Solo Ball that will be trying to probably play the majority of the minutes, uh, at the one and the two next season.

I think the advantage that you have with County is that he-- I think that he probably is a little bit better playing off the ball right now.

John Blackwell, I think, will end up climbing up draft boards and end up being next year's drafts like Bruce Thornton.

Solo Ball, no. Meyer, no. Silas Demery and Cadeau, aren't those guys? Flan, no.

Yeah, there's not really a true lead guard, but I think that they're in pretty good shape in terms of their wing room and their big man situation.

They've got a lot of size.