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BamaMTA06 said:
Hopefully Coach has something lined up. Basketball players transfer every year especially when they are seniors and aren't looking at a lot of PT. It happens. I don't care about the transfer. I care about whether or not we can snag a quality replacement. Seeing as how it's the Spring I don't see that happening. The only bigs left out there are projects.
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I'd rather a freshman project over a senior project
 
TIDE-HSV said:
To be fair, MG was one of the highest ranking recruits coming out of juco ranks. Sometimes skills, or the lack thereof, don't become apparent until the competition ramps up. I've said this before about him, but I'd be willing to bet that he grew up playing soccer, not basketball. Your brain "grooves" pathways as you grow up. Most American kids grow up playing hand-eye skill games, baseball, basketball, football. To some degree, those skills are transportable from one game to another. Not so with soccer. Any American kid who grows up playing only soccer would have the same problem. It was painful to see the ball go into Moose, because you just knew that, most of the time, the outcome was not going to be good. I hope really can find a school where the style of play suits him. I'm just not sure where he thinks that style and school are...
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I like your thinking. Funny, more and more African kids are playing their way into major colleges or the pros. Hakeem Olajuwon, who was a soccer goalie as I recall, started it. He had those great feet and those great hands. Moose had neither. He was just tall.
 
This is good for both parties. I really don't think Moose has SEC skills and that is not going to magically change this offseason. We need some big-bodies that can play right away and this at least cleans up the depth chart a bit. If I were a big man, either juco or transfer, UA SHOULD be one of the top schools on my list at this point.
 
Don't know if I've ever seen a worse set of hands at this high of a level. It was waste of a possession to pass the ball to him.

Oh well, hope he finds what he's looking for and we find what we need at that position!!!
 
TIDE-HSV said:
To be fair, MG was one of the highest ranking recruits coming out of juco ranks. Sometimes skills, or the lack thereof, don't become apparent until the competition ramps up. I've said this before about him, but I'd be willing to bet that he grew up playing soccer, not basketball. Your brain "grooves" pathways as you grow up. Most American kids grow up playing hand-eye skill games, baseball, basketball, football. To some degree, those skills are transportable from one game to another. Not so with soccer. Any American kid who grows up playing only soccer would have the same problem. It was painful to see the ball go into Moose, because you just knew that, most of the time, the outcome was not going to be good. I hope really can find a school where the style of play suits him. I'm just not sure where he thinks that style and school are...
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Since I played several seasons of soccer, I may now understand why I don't have the best hand-eye coordination. :biggrin:

CrimsonEyeshade said:
I like your thinking. Funny, more and more African kids are playing their way into major colleges or the pros. Hakeem Olajuwon, who was a soccer goalie as I recall, started it. He had those great feet and those great hands. Moose had neither. He was just tall.
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A soccer goalie would have the best, softest hands of any soccer player and translate well on the basketball court. Gotta be able to catch those rocket kicks or knock them down without allowing your opponent to get the rebound score.
 
Case in point: A few years ago Madison Academy had a 7 footer who came from Africa who grew up playing soccer. He was on a team that won 2 or 3 state championships.

The problem is he struggled to catch the ball on the low post. He could get outstanding position...good footwork...but he couldn't consistently catch the ball. Had hands like stone.

Reminds me of MG.

What I don't get is how MG was so highly rated coming from JC. Did he not exhibit these tendencies on recruiting film?
 
RTR91 said:
Since I played several seasons of soccer, I may now understand why I don't have the best hand-eye coordination. :biggrin:


A soccer goalie would have the best, softest hands of any soccer player and translate well on the basketball court. Gotta be able to catch those rocket kicks or knock them down without allowing your opponent to get the rebound score.
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From watching my own kids and their friends, most goalies simply grow into the position. Once they start approaching six feet or above, one day the coach comes and tells him he's a goalie. I don't know when Moussa put on his height, but I don't think he ever played goalie. Didn't have the speed and footwork, never mind his hands...
 
RTR91 said:
Since I played several seasons of soccer, I may now understand why I don't have the best hand-eye coordination. :biggrin:


A soccer goalie would have the best, softest hands of any soccer player and translate well on the basketball court. Gotta be able to catch those rocket kicks or knock them down without allowing your opponent to get the rebound score.
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You can't teach tall and fast ... But good hands are the most under-appreciated natural skill in basketball, maybe every sport.
 
My nephew went to CAG's camp and simply loved Gueye because he was always business during the camps while the others goofed off so I can't say anything bad about him. Wish him luck!
 
Wow. Like some others, I hope this means there is someone else coming in. Even with his limitations, Gueye was a valuable player this past season.

I heard talk on the Memphis radio this morning of "Tarik" transferring from Memphis and that he had been recruited by Bama and UT during his initial recruitment. This was very premature speculation on the radio host's part but he did think that he may be interested in Bama (Tarik Black maybe) because of his size and that with Stokes staying at UT he might not want to go there. If it is Tarik Black, I see that he averaged 20 to 25 minutes per game over his three seasons and 8 to 10 points and around 5 rebounds. I don't know anything about him as a player or a person except he played at Ridgeway High in Memphis. He has graduated and will be able to transfer and play using the rule regarding that and going for a master's.
 
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day-day said:
Wow. Like some others, I hope this means there is someone else coming in. Even with his limitations, Gueye was a valuable player this past season.

I heard talk on the Memphis radio this morning of "Tarik" transferring from Memphis and that he had been recruited by Bama and UT during his initial recruitment. This was very premature speculation on the radio host's part but he did think that he may be interested in Bama (Tarik Black maybe) because of his size and that with Stokes staying at UT he might not want to go there. If it is Tarik Black, I see that he averaged 20 to 25 minutes per game over his three seasons and 8 to 10 points and around 5 rebounds. I don't know anything about him as a player or a person except he played at Ridgeway High in Memphis. He has graduated and will be able to transfer and play using the rule regarding that and going for a master's.
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That is the player being discussed...
 
day-day said:
Wow. Like some others, I hope this means there is someone else coming in. Even with his limitations, Gueye was a valuable player this past season.

I heard talk on the Memphis radio this morning of "Tarik" transferring from Memphis and that he had been recruited by Bama and UT during his initial recruitment. This was very premature speculation on the radio host's part but he did think that he may be interested in Bama (Tarik Black maybe) because of his size and that with Stokes staying at UT he might not want to go there. If it is Tarik Black, I see that he averaged 20 to 25 minutes per game over his three seasons and 8 to 10 points and around 5 rebounds. I don't know anything about him as a player or a person except he played at Ridgeway High in Memphis. He has graduated and will be able to transfer and play using the rule regarding that and going for a master's.
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We were very close to signing Black in Releford's class if my memory serves me correctly.
 
BamaMoon said:
Case in point: A few years ago Madison Academy had a 7 footer who came from Africa who grew up playing soccer. He was on a team that won 2 or 3 state championships.

The problem is he struggled to catch the ball on the low post. He could get outstanding position...good footwork...but he couldn't consistently catch the ball. Had hands like stone.

Reminds me of MG.

What I don't get is how MG was so highly rated coming from JC. Did he not exhibit these tendencies on recruiting film?
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Apparently the competition level hid it. Only answer I have...
 
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