Team for coming season

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Interesting that Bolon played. He isnt from South Carolina. He is a totally unknown to the organizers. Clearly he impressed his teammates enough to be provided with a large role(though by the looks of it the top player was an incoming freshman to USC).

Either way this hopefully is a good omen of things to come.
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matrojan wrote:Interesting that Bolon played. He isnt from South Carolina. He is a totally unknown to the organizers. Clearly he impressed his teammates enough to be provided with a large role(though by the looks of it the top player was an incoming freshman to USC).

Either way this hopefully is a good omen of things to come.
Plus 2 true incoming freshmen had decent games also.
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Was told today that platooning 5 at a time a real possibility. Hungry should love that
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We're old enough to remember Dean Smith "Blue/White"
How about "Maroon/Black" since those are popular with the players?
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Anyone seen them practicing?
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How about Maroon/White since those are official colors?
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Young people like "popular" preferences more than "official" rules.
In fact, "Ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do!" is a popular response to any "official" rule.
From my 8 years experience as a school bus driver for middle school after I retired. I had to do it because Swampy wouldn't.
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Jersey numbers for all players now posted on roster. Still a few pictures missing
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Their Bios are missing too.
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Interview with Coach in today's P&C, mostly covering all the players-
Those who're gone on the portal
Those who've arrived on the portal
New freshman recruits
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Jack Comer and Dylan Ritter.
Walk ons?
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Here is the complete roster with bios:
https://cofcsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
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Saw that but are they scholarship or walk on.i couldn't tel. Thanks
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Had Coach Kelsey on the Holy City Hoops podcast to kick off this season and get a few thoughts on each of the new players:

https://holycityhoops.com/charleston-he ... ops-debut/

Available on Apple, Spotify, etc.
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Great interview, surf. I’m all in on coach Kelsey!
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Cougie Monster wrote:Great interview, surf. I’m all in on coach Kelsey!
Loved the podcast. Makes me even more optimistic about the coming season
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Bolon suffered some sort of ankle/knee injury. He posted a picture on Instagram of him on crutches, so he’s going to miss some time, but it doesn’t look to be extremely long-term.
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dadpharm wrote:Jack Comer and Dylan Ritter.
Walk ons?
Yes.
Watched some practice today. Lot of fast and lengthy good shooters on the team. Easier to shoot good with no one defending though. Manly doing drills. No real scrimmage today that I saw. Was 30 minutes late arriving so missed some of it?
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Yep. I also saw us hit a lot of unguarded 3's, whatever that's worth.
Better than missing them.
Coaching staff still excited about 11-deep possible starters.
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Looking ahead very early. 8 players getting meaningful minutes this year that will be back next year with a full season playing togeather behind them. This year looking good but future is also very bright.
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Fah’mir Ali in the transfer portal

https://twitter.com/verbalcommits/statu ... 86563?s=21
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cougarsurf11 wrote:Fah’mir Ali in the transfer portal

https://twitter.com/verbalcommits/statu ... 86563?s=21
Makes no sense
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Really Unfortunate

Not unusual that he would choose to transfer out. I think under the new set of rules we need to get used to more guys not sticking it out, and looking for greener pastures. Fa'mir's usg% and output was down from his true freshman year at Radford. Wouldn't stun me if he moves to reunite with Mike Jones who is now at UNCG.

What is puzzling is making this move now and burning half a year of PT in the process. Wonder if more ever leaks out.
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Wow. I’m very surprised. PK has said multiple times lately how much coaching and mentoring he’s personally put into Ali, and not just on the basketball side. Gotta sting for coach.

From a basketball perspective we were in desperate need of another ball handler with Ali on the roster. Will be interesting to see who steps up…. But this probably isn’t the worst thing to happen long runIMO. Ali led the team in dribbling by a huge margin. Might see some better ball movement and half court offense. His advanced stats were ugly.

Hope he indeed finds greener pasture.
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Its tough to be really successful as a sub 6 foot guard in D1.
You have to be exceptional at everything else and at minimum you have to be really fast. Ali was fast but I don't think he was that fast. I think long term Ali would have been a guy we recruited over.

Hopefully Nikita can play the point bc that will solve a lot of issues. Otherwise its gonna be some combination of increased Underwood minutes, Reyne manning the point, and Sechan. This dampens the conference outlook significantly. The CAA is decent with Hofstra, JMU and Towson showing fight.

It also puts us in position that we have to get an upperclassman transfer next year.
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