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Jan 28, 2022
4:28:52pm

kimdaddy35 Future Lions Scout

All of you smart basketball guys, is it just me or will we see a huge rebuilding year next year when we lose

AB and Lucas. They are by far our two best players.

Add in possibly Baxter (doubt he will play again at BYU), possibly Harward (who knows) and possibly George (he is listed as a Senior).

So as of now, our starting lineup looks like this:

PG Spencer Johnson?
SG Trevon Knell
SF Seneca Knight
PF Caleb Lohner
C Fouss (he is undersized as a C)

Then the backups who have seen time this year will be:
Atiki
Erickson (a little bit)

That guard lineup and overall depth scares me. I'm sure Pope will be searching the transfer portal but that lineup isn't ideal. Who will score? Who will even create?

Why do we have so many 6'3" and under guys who are young and don't play?
Casey Brown
Jeremy Dowdell
Nate Hansen
Trey Stewart
Hunter Erickson (again he has played a little)

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All of you smart basketball guys, is it just me or will we see a huge rebuilding year next year when we lose

kimdaddy35 Future Lions Scout

1/28/22 4:28pm

Transfer portal

I'mBatman

1/28/22 4:32pm

It appears that it will be needed!

kimdaddy35

1/28/22 4:40pm

And Toolson & Saunders coming off missions. Bigger and hopefully better shooters

gp232

1/28/22 4:34pm

And Hall, correct? Again a bunch of fairly short guards aside from Saunders.

kimdaddy35

1/28/22 4:40pm

Saunders and Toolson are 6-5. That’s why i didn’t list Hall.

gp232

1/28/22 7:14pm

Gotcha

kimdaddy35

1/28/22 9:18pm

I hear Toolson has been growing on his mission

icecougar

1/29/22 5:20am

Shouldn't surprise. He grew a LOT his final season.

SinkingQuffa

1/29/22 6:26pm

I bet George will be back for his covid year

GlutealGuy

1/28/22 4:50pm

I hope he is. We can use his size and athleticism. I kind of thought the same thing but was

kimdaddy35

1/28/22 4:54pm

The problem is those guys stillcount against the 13. So you keep any of them, it gets harder to address your other

mokelembembe

1/28/22 4:55pm

I thought 5th season players didn’t count against the 13.

DieHarder

1/28/22 4:56pm

Only for this year. I think that's why they chose to list everybody as if they don't have that extra year because the

mokelembembe

1/28/22 5:03pm

If Gideon George wants to come back for another year, I think Pope will make

cwilke1

1/28/22 5:38pm

i was not sure but looked online for some minutes and saw one article to back up

cwilke1

1/29/22 10:26am

You have to get rid of at least a couple of the smaller guards. I don't know who as I haven't seen them all play

kimdaddy35

1/28/22 4:57pm

Knell seems like a guy who needs to have a serious convo about improvement or

GlutealGuy

1/28/22 5:07pm

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mokelembembe

1/28/22 5:18pm

While a TeJ-level (or better) PG from the Portal would be nice,

SinkingQuffa

1/28/22 5:19pm

Some guys aren't the man until they are

Remigius

1/28/22 5:02pm

My issue is probably as much with 5 guys who seem to all be the same player within 2 classes. We have to weed some of

kimdaddy35

1/28/22 5:11pm

Which 5 guys?

Remigius

1/28/22 5:19pm

I’m assuming he included Erickson and Brown

GlutealGuy

1/28/22 5:22pm

And we keep bringing in transfer portal guards to play over them so they don’t

GlutealGuy

1/28/22 5:21pm

There's a rub to that, though. A young PG can learn a TON

SinkingQuffa

1/28/22 5:53pm

I still think they would learn more getting a chunk of game time. The elite

cwilke1

1/28/22 5:57pm

Ashworth's a tough comparison, though. I SURE hope

SinkingQuffa

1/28/22 6:01pm

I don't follow USU that closely to know if he is an upgrade over our other

cwilke1

1/28/22 6:10pm

I know he's good enough for what we'd want at PG next season.

SinkingQuffa

1/28/22 6:13pm

In 2 years I could see someone making a USU to BYU switch for the opportunity

cwilke1

1/28/22 6:22pm

Meh. Maybe. BYU's still the clearly bigger program

SinkingQuffa

1/28/22 6:30pm

he's proven he's good enough to lead us to a .500 record in the WCC? I know if

cwilke1

1/28/22 6:25pm

If he could land a better scoring PG, for sure.

SinkingQuffa

1/28/22 6:33pm

Games can’t be replicated, look at how much fous and AAA have improved

GlutealGuy

1/28/22 6:06pm

No doubt. But there'll be a TON of pressure put on our PG(s)

SinkingQuffa

1/28/22 6:20pm

Which is why I would prefer to go the portal and that’s what pope will try

GlutealGuy

1/28/22 6:25pm

Maybe. I think they were in a great spot to learn

SinkingQuffa

1/28/22 6:35pm

Byu is going to need to get a couple of 6'9 or taller and some bigger guards or

FT487

1/28/22 7:17pm

I expect a lot of roster movement this off-season.

Zastava

1/28/22 9:23pm

Pope will just reload with another 5 transfers

archie

1/28/22 9:25pm

Spencer, Knell and Lohner in the starting lineup would be a disaster...

icecougar

1/29/22 5:18am

Yeah, that’s not a winning lineup. Hopefully our starting 5 next year will…

Zastava

1/29/22 9:31am

Definitely a conundrum for Pope and staff...

icecougar

1/29/22 11:35am

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