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And notice that the national media has not covered this story at all. Not a sign of it anywhere on socials. Condolences to the Prenter family. There's still a lot of talent in the portal so we just got to be patient.

Don't know many coaches that would do that especially for one that didn't play much this season on his team. One thing you can't question is that Vic cares about these girls no matter how tough he is.

Washington Mystics just got the steal of the draft.

How does Rori Harmon not get picked in the first 2 rounds of the WNBA draft? This is a bunch of 💩

Scottie did all this driving the ball horribly too up until the final 7 holes. If he even would have driven the ball average, he would be wearing the green jacket right now.

Great pickup. He plays similar to a poor man's Cam Boozer. That physicality is going to go well with Matas. We should bully some teams now.

Crittendon looks like she has enough physicality to play early and she has the scoring ability to contribute right from the start. If she gets early playing time, by late season she'll have the confidence boost we usually see in young players that get them to contributing more consistently. The Bjorn/Holle comparison is an interesting one. I can see why you think so but Bjorn has a higher ceiling. She's more athletic particularly vertically (she can dunk on her best day) so can finish better near the goal. But if Bjorn could get to where Holle was defensively and 3pt shooting wise, I'd take that in a heart beat.

Not sure why Crump would want to go to Vandy and sit behind Blakes for another 2 years. Maybe she'll play SF? Lee wants a school that has a good medical program. I see her going to Duke more than SC and she'll be more of the #1 scoring option there too versus SC. We could use Jada Williams. Why aren't we hosting her right now?

Is she in the portal?

Unfortunately, the team isn't set up right now to capitalize on Maddie's last season. Very few teams on the women's side get to the Final Four with mostly new players on their roster much less win a championship in Vic's system. Unless we get a couple experienced stars in the portal that can pick up things fast, my expectations will be tempered a bit for next year.

Except Spaights is an open gate on defense. 🤣She'll have to develop ALOT on defense to even get serious playing time with Vic, but I'm sure she knows that.

She won't have a better opportunity at a contender than here where she'd be set to start unless we get a star PG from the portal. Bri is still a year away from being a consistent contributor and leader on the team.

Well you're assuming that the players would share facts that potentially make them look bad and undesirable to schools. Like I said, I think both the school/coaches and players have probably decided or agreed to not talk about it and just move on. In the end, what's done is done and I'm more interested in who we're replacing them with. Lots of good choices out there.

That looks like a farewell post.

I'm thinking it's a better of 2 evils thing. I think if they talk about it openly, it doesn't reflect on well on the school because of the possible actions they did or did not do pertaining to those players during the season. So they'd just rather people speculate and think they are leaving because of playing time or NIL etc.

Ice Brady is another big we should look at as well. Tall, strong and physical.

Not sure Merkle is going to fit defensively but she'd be nice to have offensively. I like Carnegie and Vann though. They're athletic enough to be molded in Vic's defense but can really score too. Haven't really seen Dauda play much in a while but Cody would fill in what we're losing with Oldacre.

This is the one that hurts and is very telling. She IS the perfect fit for Vic's system and culture. And they threw a big offer to convince her to stay so there's a lot of bad feelings there. This might also mean Sarah Graves didn't get her extra year of eligibility given how close Lee and Graves were. I'm sure some more details will come out with what was going on in the locker room but feels like it's headed towards Preston and Cunningham next with a complete rebuild.

You offer them in HS for potential and Vic really wanted to address offense thus Crump and the Judd pickup in the off season. Both were also our worst defenders. Carlton is the bigger loss given her development of her 3pt shot but Crump wouldn't be playing much again next year behind Lee and Booker. She'd be in the same situation so I don't blame her for leaving. Both weren't ideal fits and I saw somewhere in Vic's season exit interview with Crump, he told her that she'd need to work more on full court defense and she immediately entered the portal. I'm confident both will be good somewhere else. I just don't think they fit Vic's system well enough to maximize their potential. Etute is pretty similar to Carlton (physical body and likes to use it on the inside) but with quicker feet so we might already have a good replacement between Crittenden and Etute. There are 1100+ players in the portal now so there's got to be a a handful that would be good fits for us. As long as we don't lose Lee and Preston too, we'll be ok.

A silver lining to losing Crump and Carlton (if those 2 are the only real losses) is both did not have the speed and quickness to play the 40 mins of hell defense I know Vic wants to ideally run. The defensive drop off from sitting Lee/Booker is huge and unless Crump was making a lot of baskets which she only did in a handful of games. Carlton was better because she had experience in the system so she knew where to be but her lack of quickness caused most of the fouls she committed. There were games where Sidberry's quickness was much more effective and at the same time Carlton's strength worked in other games. So it was nice we had 3 options at PF depending on the matchup but each had weaknesses. So if we can find SG/PFs in the portal that match Vic's system a little better, it could be an improvement. Crittenden and Bjorn will be good fits once they get some games under their belt and I think Etute is equally as physical as Carlton but with quicker feet.

Crooks is the epitome of what Vic doesn't want on defense. She has never hedged on the pick and roll (she barely leaves the paint on defense) and her feet are way too slow to recover on any play. She would get dominated by a lot of the athletic bigs in the SEC. She'll score her share though on offense. Word is she's going to OU which honestly is a perfect fit since they don't put much focus on defense there.

They better do everything they can to keep her. She's vital to our success next year. She was underappreciated this year because of a little slump offensively midseason but her defense is a cornerstone of our team. If Vic and the staff can help elevate her confidence, I think she can be a superstar on both sides of the ball. She's a coach's dream too culture wise.

I hope they can convince Lee to stay. The others hurt but Lee is a pillar of our team. She's on the verge of being a superstar as well. Everyone else is more replaceable than she is. It would have been interesting to see if winning a championship would have mended some of this ill will. We'll never know.

Another championship won by a team built completely in the portal. That's just the meta now. If you look at the Michigan players, they are physically bigger, quicker, and taller than every other team. The way they defend and challenge shots is another level compared to what we got. We got a center but we need more skilled and physically strong players at SG/SF/PF.

Oh interesting. None of those would describe Lee though. I wonder if Vic's "no heart" call out rubbed some of them the wrong way as well.