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Post by rgs318 on May 26, 2020 19:02:31 GMT -5
For those who are interested...DL lands in Eastern Michigan (as was predicted on Crossports some time back).
Drew Lowder has found a new home and it’s not far from where he starred in high school.
After only a year at Holy Cross, the former Ann Arbor Pioneer star point guard announced Tuesday evening via his Twitter account his decision to return to his home state and play for Eastern Michigan’s men’s basketball team. The 6-foot guard averaged 14 points, 3.3 assists and shot 42-percent from the 3-point line in 12 games at Holy Cross but decided to transfer early this year.
Lowder signed with Holy Cross as a three-star recruit after securing all-state honors at Pioneer while averaging 20 points and four assists per game his senior year in 2019. He now joins an Eastern Michigan program that was 16-16 during the 2019-2020 season.
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Post by hchoops on May 26, 2020 19:17:01 GMT -5
Here are my minutes projections for the OOC games that may never happen. I assume the rotation will be tightened up for PL play. These are even more meaningless than usual given the number of newcomers but here it is based on very little: PG- Johnson 32, Reilly 6, Humphrey 2 SG- Wade 26, Humphrey 12, Montgomery 2 SF- Butler 28, Montgomery 8, Townsel 4 PF- Faw 26, Martindale 14 C- Coulibaly 26, Rabinovich 14 Bump.
I'd cut Faw and Wade back to 20, Butler to 25, and give those collective 15 minutes to Martindale. Would also split the minutes at the five evenly between Coulibaly and Rabinovich.
Hopefully Faw can stay out of foul trouble to play more than 20 mpg I think Martindale can play some 4, but think he is more effective at the 3. Rabinovich played a lot at the 4, He can play both 5 or 4, and get more than 14 mins As he is probably the best 5, he can get 25+ mpg
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Post by hchoops on May 26, 2020 19:20:17 GMT -5
Bump.
I'd cut Faw and Wade back to 20, Butler to 25, and give those collective 15 minutes to Martindale. Would also split the minutes at the five evenly between Coulibaly and Rabinovich.
Hopefully Faw can stay out of foul trouble to play more than 20 mpg I think Martindale can play some 4, but think he is more effective at the 3. Rabinovich played a lot at the 4, He can play both 5 or 4, and get more than 14 mins As he is probably the best 5, Coulibaly can get 25+ mpg
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Post by Tom on May 27, 2020 7:52:07 GMT -5
If Wade retains 26 minutes, that's not the best sign as he was a starter out of necessity last year for a 3-29 team and the new players have been touted as better then the departed. If Wade earns the 26 minutes by strong improvement during the off season that's different. Nothing good comes from needing to rely on freshmen. The team will need strong contributions from everyone who has actually played some college basketball. As team will be forced to rely on a lot of freshmen, I anticipate they will take their lumps again this year. Wade is going to need to be an important piece of the puzzle if this team is going to be respectable in his upper class years
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Post by trimster on May 27, 2020 7:59:33 GMT -5
One of the greatest year to year turnarounds in HC history was led by two freshmen a long time ago. Their names are forever linked. I am not predicting it’s going to happen again although it would be sweet if it did.
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Post by hchoops on May 27, 2020 8:11:17 GMT -5
Although the team did not get many wins, three years ago Butler, Green and Grandison all made significant contributions as freshmen
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Post by rgs318 on May 27, 2020 8:32:22 GMT -5
Butler is a good example, the other two...not so much.
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Post by hchoops on May 27, 2020 8:55:08 GMT -5
The topic in reference is the contributions of freshmen
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Post by rgs318 on May 27, 2020 11:05:15 GMT -5
Exactly, and I was commenting on your post about the freshman trio of Butler, Green and Grandison. They do show that a good first year does not guarantee later success. If their careers ended after their freshman year, you have a good point.
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Post by hchoops on May 27, 2020 11:26:19 GMT -5
All three had good soph seasons Butler had a good junior season as well
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Post by rgs318 on May 27, 2020 11:52:43 GMT -5
How were their junior years for Grandison and Green? Butler played hurt for some time in his sophomore year which makes what he did as a sophomore even more impressive.
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Post by Tom on May 27, 2020 11:55:05 GMT -5
There's a difference between freshmen contributing and needing to rely on freshmen. Lots of freshmen have been solid contributors. Many of those same freshmen had games when they would totally disappear. They tend to be inconsistent.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jun 17, 2020 20:59:10 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Jun 17, 2020 21:04:02 GMT -5
And he is listed as a junior
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jun 17, 2020 21:06:46 GMT -5
Maybe he's gotten clearance to play immediately?
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Post by hchoops on Jun 17, 2020 21:11:06 GMT -5
Doubtful
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 17, 2020 23:24:29 GMT -5
Well, I'll point out again that in the year he sat out, 2008-2009, Mike Cavataio was not listed on the Holy Cross roster goholycross.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/2008-09Have we changed policies/procedures on listing transferees or might, as WooGray asks, GG be getting ready to take the court this fall?
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Post by hchoops on Jun 18, 2020 7:02:48 GMT -5
Very doubtful
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Post by trimster on Jun 18, 2020 7:04:21 GMT -5
Maybe he's gotten clearance to play immediately? I wouldn’t think he’d be on the roster for the upcoming season if he weren’t eligible to play.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jun 18, 2020 7:17:16 GMT -5
Agreed. The fact that he wasn't on the roster a couple weeks ago, and now he is, suggests something about his status has changed.
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Post by purplehaze on Jun 18, 2020 7:38:29 GMT -5
It doesn’t mean anything - the NCAA has spoken and he does not have a case for a waiver as we know them to be granted in the past. This is simply listing his name as a member of the program
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Post by Tom on Jun 18, 2020 7:59:34 GMT -5
Agreed. The fact that he wasn't on the roster a couple weeks ago, and now he is, suggests something about his status has changed. Something about his status changed or something about the way that HC decides to put people on the roster. Riley Criswell was always listed on the roster and I assume that he was not eligible to play under NCAA rules
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 18, 2020 9:17:51 GMT -5
Who here knows one of the coaches well enough to ask about GG's status?
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Post by possum on Jun 18, 2020 9:25:29 GMT -5
Bucknell also has a transfer coming in, unfortunately it appears their 20-21 roster is not up yet so can't see how their player is being classified.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 18, 2020 16:55:23 GMT -5
It doesn’t mean anything - the NCAA has spoken and he does not have a case for a waiver as we know them to be granted in the past. This is simply listing his name as a member of the program Agree. Doubtful it means anything. Many programs list players who are sitting out, but a number choose not to. It is simply a choice made by each school. Colgate, for example, listed two players on their 2019-20 roster who were sitting out due to transfer rules: Evtimov and Lynch-Daniels. The previous year they listed Nelly Cummings on the roster, even though he was not eligible to play. Fwiw, Bucknell listed Brian Fitzpatrick on their 2010-11 roster after he transferred from Penn, even though he had to sit out that year. He was a slightly different case, as he was not on scholarship although he became a major contributor.
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