Just to clarify, is Storr really "thriving" this season? He's averaging 13 PPG but those are hollow stats because as mentioned he doesn't play defense, he's also shooting 42% and averages less than 1 assist per game.
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Just to clarify, is Storr really "thriving" this season? He's averaging 13 PPG but those are hollow stats because as mentioned he doesn't play defense, he's also shooting 42% and averages less than 1 assist per game.
Redenbacher
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He's the leading scorer on the #23 team in the country.
Was about to delve into his stats yet again. And he shot 8-11 against Michigan state to help get that 42% shooting higher than it would be. Under 30% from 3 with as you mentioned very hollow stats of 2 rebounds and less than 1 assist per game. They just look at the 13 points and say why didn’t we keep him. And I was a storr fan here. But let’s be real people.
Jenkins gets lambasted here by a few for what would the similar shooting percentage minus the Michigan state game with much more involvement with 4 rebounds and 6 assists.
If storr put up this stat line here he would be hammered.
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I happened to be watching their most recent game on BTN. The Big Ten announcer made a point that Storr has been a difference maker this year because of his athleticism which was sorely lacking on last year's Wisconsin squad. He will have a nice college career with the Badgers. Again, nothing to do with whether we should have tried harder to keep him as I am totally fine with everything Rick did in putting the team together, but not sure why people feel the need to diss former players, especially a guy like Storr who seems to be a pretty solid kid.
He played the first game and was injured afterwards. The last game I watched them, he was on the bench in “street warmups sitting next to Bronny James who was dressed the same way. This was obviously before James was cleared to play.
I’m not dissing him. I like him. But once you look at the numbers it’s amazing how the announcers and others can claim the high praise. He definitely has had a couple decent to nice games. But the bulk of his game are nothing at all the write home about. I’ve seen a few of his games.
Redenbacher
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My initial point on Storr was that there seems to be a narrative by many on this board that he was asking for a pile of money that Pitino just wasn't willing to hand over. But no one seems to be able to offer any specifics about how much he wanted -- and whether the new guys who replaced him are being paid as much, or even more. I'm not questioning Pitino, I'm just saying there's a lot of stuff getting thrown around with nothing to back it up.
L J S A
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I'm guess Beast can back it up but he can't reveal how he heard.
Please don’t start.
Redenbacher
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That is the problem with NIL. You cannot ask fans to pony up NIL money and then not give any clue as to how it's spent. Are Jenkins, Dingle and Luis being paid more than Storr and Posh? I know, I know--we are supposed to trust Pitino's judgement on this. Shame on me for asking! LOL
Reasonable question but as soon as NIL become published knowledge teams will go after bargain players before they hit the portal. If the budgets are published teams will recruit against that number.
Think of it this way, would you disclose your salary, household budget, size of mortgage etc?
Its between players and coaches and collectives. Bigger supporters have some idea.
Redenbacher
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Can't compare it to my household budget, because I'm not asking outsiders to contribute to it.
The better comparison is the NBA. If college players want to be paid, then they and the schools should disclose their pay, as they do in the NBA.
I'm still curious if a coach wants a player commanding $X, and whomever at collective doesn't agree that player is worth $X, but technically can support...do they just tell the coach it's a no-go, or only willing to offer "$Y". If so, whoever is leading the collective has a lot of power in decision making...and more the reason I'd rather the coach have that purchase power directly, vs. collective leader.
L J S A
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Start what?Please don’t start.
I love Knight. He's the kind of mod who gives double technicals before a fight breaks out.
He's a really good man, too.
The coach does decide who gets how much. The collective raises money and then lets the coach know the "total" amount available,
. The coach then decides how to allocate the funds.
Redenbacher
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Not sure if the "dissing" comment was directed at me, but if so, that obviously was not my intention. While I will admit I do find it annoying certain posters keep fawning over former players every time they have a good game, while bashing our current players, I do wish we could have retained Posh, Storr, Jones and others. In fact I would have loved to see Pitino retain the majority of our previous roster and have great success with them, like Lavin did in year 1 with Norm's players.
Wasn't directed at you or any individual poster.
I happen to agree with you on the part about asking fans to contribute, without there being transparency on how the money is spent. I continue to have my reservations on the whole NIL business model, which is why I dont contribute. My gut tells me that a few of these NIL companies are gonna wind up on that show American Greed.
As for trusting Pitino's judgement on how to spend the money, that I do.