The entire damn backcourt turns it over at inopportune times.

Phillips is the best we've got, IMO. At least for the time being.
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Wish MPJ could have swayed Trae Young.
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Yeah when he was working on Kevin Knox, I really wanted him to be working Young instead.
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He tried, but Trae wanted to be The Man at his school. Turns out, he would have.
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Yeah.....but that plays into ego doesn't it. Would he be able to fit in as part of a team concept or would he be more about being "the man"?
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I cover my eyes when Geist is in
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So does Geist, apparently.
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CJ Roberts to transfer.

I don't like to badmouth kids when they leave because they often have good cause to do so even when we don't know it.

But man, that sure looks like a kid throwing a tantrum because he was asked to redshirt, doesn't it? With Phillips struggling and Harris not exactly taking control, surely he sees that there's no reason he couldn't win that PG job next year if he works hard.

Hate to see that.
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If he can't play this year, he's never going to play for Mizzou. I mean, Cullen fucking VanLeer is still getting minutes for this team.

It's no loss.

I have it on pretty good authority that his Rivals rating was due entirely to his dad being a pain in the ass and the Rivals hoops guys not wanting to deal with the fallout of dropping him from 4-star status.
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Yeah, I just hate seeing a kid that committed to the program when they were shit effectively forced out. You'd have liked to have seen him develop in a Wes Clark sort of way and become a strong contributor as an upper-classman in a couple of years.

I'm inclined to agree that we can put that scholly to equally effective/more use, but coming off an era where kids were leaving because they hate the program, I hate seeing one that seemed to actually like it here leave because he can't play as a freshman. A lot can change if he develops and sticks with it.

Oh well.
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I don’t think anyone is surprised.
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SI had an article about the 'minor leagues' of college basketball a few months back and had some outstanding stats that I can't recall at all at the moment.

Bottom line was that mid-majors were losing players at an incredible rate because guys that excel at that level were leaving to move up a rung. At the same time, they were getting a lot more transfers down from kids that weren't playing well at higher levels.

They reviewed it from a coaching perspective as well. First they discussed the number of coaches that were doing the same thing, then they discussed things coaches were doing to try to avoid losing players. Some of it was fairly untoward; sitting guys in blowouts to keep their PPG down and keep them off the radars of larger schools, for instance. DI coaches all acknowledged that they were keeping running sheets of players that were showing up a lot in box scores for smaller schools and using that to determine if they should send people there or get video and determine if they might be attractive transfer targets.

The transfer game is getting pretty nasty in a lot of ways, especially as kids are more and more willing to burn not just their redshirt year, but one of their playing years. Kids are transferring twice now if they don't get the PT they want.

It was an interesting article and, as can be expected, wasn't a great look for college basketball. I suspect we'll see more rather than less of this if Cuonzo keeps getting top 30 classes going forward.

Still don't have to like it.
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Another Kim Anderson player that couldn't hack it at Mizzou. Color me shocked.
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The Webster Groves kid who was going to Louisville just got his scholarship opened up for Zo.
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Mizzou just put up 60 in the first half against Wisconsin-Green Bay. Good thing they listened to Bob Dole and have stopped shooting threes.

Oh, wait: They're shooting 39% for the year from three and have hit eight in the first half tonight.
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