Next years team!

[Price is Right]

I'd probably process Mcnease and Buford.

Lmao Jamuni!?! Are you kidding me man?? You've been saying ou isnt going to get many 5 star guys (and your 100% correct) but you think we should run off one of the highest ceiling players on the team?! Why? To bring in a juco big? Give me a break.

 

[thebigabd]

Why would I roll the dice on a guy averaging 2 points and 2 rebounds per game on his career when I could go get someone capable of averaging 10+ points and 6+ rebounds right now?

The best game of the season for Mcnease was against West Virginia, where he had 14 points. He made 6 wide open dunks with nobody around him. I think one of them was a tip dunk on a missed shot which was nice, but the rest were wide open dunks with no defender within 10 feet of him.

He's a great athlete, but one of the most unpolished players to come through in a long time. Maybe he will develop into something great but it is a risk.

I mean, I doubt he gets processed, I am just saying OU could go get a guy capable of doubling his production (currently at 4 points and 4 rebounds per game) or better. If you can double someones production seems like you should do so.

What about Buford?

 

[Price is Right]

I'll agree that Jamuni isn't a polished player but he's also not a finished product. Think about where this kid was as a true freshman. I honestly didn't know if he would ever be good enough to get on the court. Dude has made monster strides over the past few seasons.

And to compare his career numbers with that of some juco bigs is extremely misleading. Jamuni hasn't been playing the game very long and played behind some pretty darn good bigs the past few seasons (Spangler, thomas, and lattin to a lesser extent)

 

[Price is Right]

Buford makes far more sense to me but I will say that I like his stroke. I wish he would put in the work to try and transition to a 3 but from the outside looking in it looks like he lacks overall motor.

 

[chuckb]

Buford makes far more sense to me but I will say that I like his stroke. I wish he would put in the work to try and transition to a 3 but from the outside looking in it looks like he lacks overall motor.

Buford's inability to play the 3 has nothing to do with "his motor." He's nowhere near quick enough or athletic enough to guard a 3. You are who you can guard and, at this point, Buford is a 4. The problem is that he's not really big enough or strong enough to guard a 4. So he's a tweener whose offensive game, apparently, has now become exclusively limited to shooting 3 pointers. As soon as people start to defend him on the 3 point line, he'll have nothing.

And we know absolutely nothing about his work ethic vis-a-vis anyone else. Athletically, he doesn't really fit. To justify being on the court, he's got to become an outstanding defensive player and solid rebounder and, right now, he's neither.

 

[TINY]

I'd probably process Mcnease and Buford.

Jamuni is going to be a big time player before he's done. Buford could be too if he puts in the work. You won't get better players than them in the jucos at this point. Strong moore, the only JC we have, is the worst player on the team by a decent margin (not including cole and walk-ons). He was a Jc all American, too.

 

[Price is Right]

I didn't mean his motor is what keeps him from the 3. I meant I wish he and the coaching staff worked towards that goal. I think his motor is what has kept his playing time limited in general. Wasn't he a top 50 or so recruit coming out of high school?

Far worse athletes than Dante have found ways to make an impact as a 3 in the college game.

 

[Soonerinkc]

I would guess if you put McNeace in juco he'd be avg 10/8 as well...prob 4 or 5 blocks.

 

[Big Old Booger]

Why would I roll the dice on a guy averaging 2 points and 2 rebounds per game on his career when I could go get someone capable of averaging 10+ points and 6+ rebounds right now?

The best game of the season for Mcnease was against West Virginia, where he had 14 points. He made 6 wide open dunks with nobody around him. I think one of them was a tip dunk on a missed shot which was nice, but the rest were wide open dunks with no defender within 10 feet of him.

He's a great athlete, but one of the most unpolished players to come through in a long time. Maybe he will develop into something great but it is a risk.

I mean, I doubt he gets processed, I am just saying OU could go get a guy capable of doubling his production (currently at 4 points and 4 rebounds per game) or better. If you can double someones production seems like you should do so.

What about Buford?

I've slept a lot since that game but I don't recall him getting 6 dunks. I recall him making at least 2 and maybe 3 of his sweet hook shot, which is a weapon. He hits those with regularity when we get the ball to him inside.

 

[pnkranger]

Here's the thing about McNeace:

TREMENDOUS worker
TERRIFFIC attitude
GOOD student
POSITIVE attitude
CONSUMMATE teammate
HIGH ceiling

He improves every time he hits the floor. He's got a few go-to skills that help us every game.

If you want to run this guy off, you don't care about college basketball and should stick to watching the NBA.

 

[thebigabd]

Ok, so everyone feels pretty strongly about Jamuni... Fine, I will keep him if that makes you guys feel better.

 

[Sooner04]

We are what we are down low. You have starting center as an open spot but Khadeem, if healthy, will start every game at the 5 next year. I see no way around it. It's much more important for us to shore up our guard play and bank on Doolittle continuing to carry some of the load in rebounding.

 

[AdaSooner]

Ok, so everyone feels pretty strongly about Jamuni... Fine, I will keep him if that makes you guys feel better.

Thanks, Big A! I feel better now.

Seriously, Jamuni may have a bigger upside than any big on our roster, unless you want to put Doolittle in that group. He grew from a skinny 5' 10" kid who couldn't make his freshman team to 6' 7" by the end of his sophomore season. But he really didn't get involved in competitive basketball until his junior year when the coaches couldn't ignore his potential anymore. He competed on the JV and the varsity teams as a junior, and then started on the Allen, Texas state playoff team his senior season. OU's coaches must have seen something special in this kid, or they would not have offered a scholarship to a relative newcomer to the game.

When you think about how far he has come in the last three years, it's easy to see why some of the posters here feel he has a lot more to offer before he's through. I feel the same way. IMO, the sky is the limit for Jamuni if he will do two things: add another post move or two to his repertoire, and learn to play with an attitude. A third I could add, toughness, is essentially the same as play with an attitude.

 

[sperry]

I love how Big's JUCO propaganda campaign has ratcheted up in recent years.

JUCO is trash, and your expected value to a program is going to be significantly higher to sign a high school kid. JUCO All-Americans can't even make passable Big XII backups. The one exception is kids that were kicked off D1 teams, assuming the talent is worth it to deal with the character risk.

 

[usedtobe1]

We are what we are down low. You have starting center as an open spot but Khadeem, if healthy, will start every game at the 5 next year. I see no way around it. It's much more important for us to shore up our guard play and bank on Doolittle continuing to carry some of the load in rebounding.

Probably right. Lattin and McNeace share the position and will probably do so next season. Good or bad. We end a lot of games with one of them fouled out and the other has 3-4 fouls. They have almost the same strengths and weaknesses. Maybe Polla can steal a few minutes..... 5-10 game if can adjust to the speed of the game. That would like throwing a change-up.

I expect we will see an much improved Doolittle now that he has a year of experience under his belt.

 

[AdaSooner]

Probably right. Lattin and McNeace share the position and will probably do so next season. Good or bad. We end a lot of games with one of them fouled out and the other has 3-4 fouls. They have almost the same strengths and weaknesses. Maybe Polla can steal a few minutes..... 5-10 game if can adjust to the speed of the game. That would like throwing a change-up.

I expect we will see an much improved Doolittle now that he has a year of experience under his belt.

None of us really knows what to expect from Polla next season. But when you add two 6' 9" players in Freeman and Manek to the three on your list, our post depth will be vastly improved over what we have now. I think it's also safe to assume our returning players will be better next year.

 

[Soonerinkc]

I watched to one video of Polla, in the other thread?, just my 2 cents but he didn't really stand out to me. In fact he only played like the 1st 2 minutes of the 10 I watched. But who knows.

At this point I'm not expecting anything

 

[TINY]

Polla will be a project but he appears to have some key attributes that you can't teach. Namely size and decent athleticism. He is a 4-year guy so I expect him to be a lot better in 3 years or so.

 

[Stikboy]

I watched some, here's what I got..

--Has no hops, lost jump ball to a guy a foot shorter.
--Has good FT stroke.
--Looks to try to box out. Looks more advanced at that than anyone we have.
--No way he's 6-11, unless everybody else on his team is at least 6-5.
--Does move better than I anticipated.

As a whole, not sure what we have as a total package. I'm not sure if Lon got him because that's all he could get, or if Lon and co really like him. I'm of course hoping for the latter. His offer list was less than impressive. It's kind of discouraging... I would have thought by now Lon and co could have signed better quality bigs. I mean did we not just go to a final 4? I see more than competent bigs(at least much more than ours) littered all over the country at programs lesser than us. It's a headscratcher for sure..

 

[thebigabd]

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