RayQuawndis Mitchell 6'5 G UMKC Transfer

[Stickboy46]

So that’s it. Your butt hurt about HCPM not giving you personal recruiting updates daily so you’re making it your goal to play up the sky is falling narrative. Got it.

uh .. no .. not at all. Nice try though. Anyone that isn't sticking their head in the sand has to be a little concerned right now. Recruiting is off to a rough start.

[Stickboy46]

Back on topic ...
We will not be landing Mitchell... for good or bad.

[Wichita Willy]

I can't believe that Arkansas has any space left. They're going to have to add more chairs to the bench.

[Shoxing Me Softly]

Oh no! Where will we find another available guard who had more career turnovers than assist and shot 30% from 3. Amazing stats especially when you consider that’s while playing big sky, horizon, summit. What a shot taker we missing out on.

For all the bitching about percentages dropping at Koch, this guy would have been scoring for the other team.

[Stickboy46]

Oh no! Where will we find another available guard who had more career turnovers than assist and shot 30% from 3. Amazing stats especially when you consider that’s while playing big sky, horizon, summit. What a shot taker we missing out on.

For all the bitching about percentages dropping at Koch, this guy would have been scoring for the other team.

He wasn't good .. the problem is the rest of the people we have been linked to have been worse. Gotta hope it's all behind the curtain.

[Shoxing Me Softly]

He wasn't good .. the problem is the rest of the people we have been linked to have been worse. Gotta hope it's all behind the curtain.

Worse? Dude has never shot better than 34.5 percent from field while playing at Idaho, UIC, UMKC. This guy sucks I don’t care what his pts per game was. He averaged double the turnovers to assist last year and God only knows how many “turnovers” from terrible shots he took. Just those don’t officially show up.

[Stickboy46]

Worse? Dude has never shot better than 34.5 percent from field while playing at Idaho, UIC, UMKC. This guy sucks I don’t care what his pts per game was. He averaged double the turnovers to assist last year and God only knows how many “turnovers” from terrible shots he took. Just those don’t officially show up.

I mean .. i'm not arguing anything you said there .. I'm not trying to say he's good.. just trying to say how bad (or non-existent) the remaining people we are linked to..

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Stick is reveling in this news...

[SubGod22]

Stick is reveling in this news...

Is he wrong? Are we linked to better players? Was there anything about this guy that screamed great player and game changer?

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Is he wrong? Are we linked to better players? Was there anything about this guy that screamed great player and game changer?

Who knows if he's right or wrong? I just don't see any reason to revel in it the way he is...maybe that's just me.

[SubGod22]

I don't see him reveling in it. Just making observations on what we know and contributing to discussions. It's already pretty quiet as a whole due to lack of news and overall excitement about much of anything.

I don't know if I'm familiar with everyone we're linked to, but I can't recall being very excited about anyone that may be left. I could be forgetting someone, but it seems that the intriguing options who have actually had some production value are off the table. Those we've signed are lacking those stats that wow you or give you really good vibes. Stick, like the rest of us, just wants to get excited about Shocker basketball again and it's not an easy task at the moment unless you have a really rosy and positive outlook on anything and everything regardless of actual data points.

It's fine to be that way. But some people are wired to look at data and analyze based off of known quantities and maybe mix in some of the eye test.

Until we land someone who fills those points, there's going to remain some skepticism from Stick and others about where we're at as a program and justifiably so. I don't think landing Mitchell would really have aleviated much of that other than he'd be the first guy we signed who seems to consistently score. Granted, he took a **** ton of shots to do so which doesn't excite many of us, but outside of a big guy on a bad team, we don't have anyone who's consistently filled up the stat sheet, but we have some athletes that some people are hopeful they can. I can understand why some of those people choose to be excited. But I can see why those like Stick are more hesitant to do so.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

I don't see him reveling in it. Just making observations on what we know and contributing to discussions. It's already pretty quiet as a whole due to lack of news and overall excitement about much of anything.

I don't know if I'm familiar with everyone we're linked to, but I can't recall being very excited about anyone that may be left. I could be forgetting someone, but it seems that the intriguing options who have actually had some production value are off the table. Those we've signed are lacking those stats that wow you or give you really good vibes. Stick, like the rest of us, just wants to get excited about Shocker basketball again and it's not an easy task at the moment unless you have a really rosy and positive outlook on anything and everything regardless of actual data points.

It's fine to be that way. But some people are wired to look at data and analyze based off of known quantities and maybe mix in some of the eye test.

Until we land someone who fills those points, there's going to remain some skepticism from Stick and others about where we're at as a program and justifiably so. I don't think landing Mitchell would really have aleviated much of that other than he'd be the first guy we signed who seems to consistently score. Granted, he took a **** ton of shots to do so which doesn't excite many of us, but outside of a big guy on a bad team, we don't have anyone who's consistently filled up the stat sheet, but we have some athletes that some people are hopeful they can. I can understand why some of those people choose to be excited. But I can see why those like Stick are more hesitant to do so.

Fair enough. We shall see...

[moshock]

I am LOLing because I trust our coach more than I trust your expert analysis and it’s also still early, trust me. Plenty of time. No need to panic, unless your looking for a reason to blast HCPM and hoping we don’t sign a good crop of players.

We have a winner !!!!