After a surprising, disappointing, exciting, and depressing 2017-18 that both began and ended in typical Mizzou fashion, the Tigers begin the offseason with several holes in the roster and one major recruiting target remaining.
Losses from 2017-18:
Michael Porter Jr, SF
Jordan Barnett, SF
Kassius Robertson, SG
Injured Role Players:
Cullen Van Leer
Mitchell Smith
Returning Suicide Vest:
Jordan Geist
Spoiler!
Additions:
Transfer:
He will sit out the entire season, but will have 3 years to play 3 beginning in 2019-2020
Mark Smith (former **** recruit), SG, Illinois
2018 Commitments:
Not a lot to get too excited about at this point. The success or failure of the current recruits in his class will be based upon their development rather than their Day 1 skills.
Torrence Watson, SG, **** St. Louis, MO
Javon Pickett, SG, ***, Wichita, KS
KJ Santos, SF, ***, Tallahassee FL
Xavier Pinson, PG, ***, Chicago, IL
Next year is a rebuilding year. Jontay leaving was a possibility, but not a certainty. That, combined with losing two freshman PGs to transfer and a junior shitbag PG to Cosby means that Mizzou will be bereft of experienced playmakers and ballhandlers anywhere in the backcourt, and no one with the rare ability to create in the half-court like Jontay showed. It's probably a 14 win team next year.
5/30 Edit: Jontay Porter is returning, making this team a fringe NCAA contender.
There are other competitive athletes that are vegan and don't have this level of trouble. It's likely that genetics and diet are both contributors with the major cause being Mizzou [Reply]
Think he'll come back to Missouri? He's going to fall like a rock in the NBA draft, not only because of injury history - but because he can't play next year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
Think he'll come back to Missouri? He's going to fall like a rock in the NBA draft, not only because of injury history - but because he can't play next year.
Not according to some guys he won't.
Text from a league source on if Jontay Porter's latest ACL tear would drop him out of the first round of the NBA Draft:
Hell at this point, I'd think the Arkansas job would be a step down from Houston. I mean it's the SEC, but Sampson has built up the Houston program into a pretty formidable team. Houston is a big market he can pull talent from. Arkansas hasn't been shit for almost 3 decades. Hell what if they beat UK on Fri? [Reply]
I wonder if Mike Anderson ever stops and ponders what he could have done at Mizzou in 2011-12 with this lineup:
Ratliffe
Otto Porter
Kim English
Denmon
Phil Pressey
And a bench of:
Mike Dixon
Matt Pressey
Steve Moore
I’ve thought about it. With Anderson, I’m not sure that team improves offensively like it did... but would the injection of a do-it-all freshman perfect for that style of play have made it a moot point? How much of the offensive uptick in 11-12 was just Pressey developing?
All in the past, anyway. Arkansas will probably throw enough money at this to upgrade from Anderson.
Next year is big for Cuonzo Martin. It’s Year 3. It’s firmly his program, with the holdovers mostly cast off.
They need to be a tournament team, minimum. [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
I wonder if Mike Anderson ever stops and ponders what he could have done at Mizzou in 2011-12 with this lineup:
Ratliffe
Otto Porter
Kim English
Denmon
Phil Pressey
And a bench of:
Mike Dixon
Matt Pressey
Steve Moore
I’ve thought about it. With Anderson, I’m not sure that team improves offensively like it did... but would the injection of a do-it-all freshman perfect for that style of play have made it a moot point? How much of the offensive uptick in 11-12 was just Pressey developing?
All in the past, anyway. Arkansas will probably throw enough money at this to upgrade from Anderson.
Next year is big for Cuonzo Martin. It’s Year 3. It’s firmly his program, with the holdovers mostly cast off.
They need to be a tournament team, minimum.
Well, he appears to be plum out of Porters to be injured, so that helps. [Reply]
Originally Posted by CoMoChief:
Hell at this point, I'd think the Arkansas job would be a step down from Houston. I mean it's the SEC, but Sampson has built up the Houston program into a pretty formidable team. Houston is a big market he can pull talent from. Arkansas hasn't been shit for almost 3 decades. Hell what if they beat UK on Fri?
I'd say Arky is probably a step up right now. More TV dollars flowing around the program and it seems the current upper level era WM exec's are more willing to pour money into the program. Will alao be easy to grab the spotlight since the fb program is shit. [Reply]