A10 Transfers 2021

[Juice Stand]

Yep, this is some temporary bullshittery.

Transferring sucks, but as long as coaches can bounce around wherever they want whenever they want, I support the players having a mechanism to find the best situation for themselves. The sit-out rule will start to phase back, but I still support the no-sit grad transfer rule. If a kid worked his tail off and got a full degree in 3 years, then yeah, more power to him.

[69MG]

GMU just lost their top scorer, Miller to the portal. Their top 4 scorers (all double figures) are now in the portal and 3 of them were their leading rebounders as well. They now have 8 transfers.

You can't keep up. GMU just lost Wilson, their 5th leading scorer. They virtually have nobody coming back as the highest scorer returning was at 5.4 point last year.

Here's a guy we should look at. Normally I don't pay much attention to transfers from North Dakota, but this kid went to Williston-Northampton School.

Rebraca, a 6-foot-9 post from Serbia, was a second-team all-Summit League pick during the 2020-21 season.
Rebraca, who averaged 17.2 points per game this past season, spent three years at UND. He has 1,121 career points for the Fighting Hawks.

He also had 7.6 boards.

[NilesGold]

Yep, this is some temporary bullshittery.

Transferring sucks, but as long as coaches can bounce around wherever they want whenever they want, I support the players having a mechanism to find the best situation for themselves. The sit-out rule will start to phase back, but I still support the no-sit grad transfer rule. If a kid worked his tail off and got a full degree in 3 years, then yeah, more power to him.

The transfer rules aren't going to change back, but the extra year of eligibility is only being given to kids who played this year - this year was a free season.

[bobolink]

GMU just lost their top scorer, Miller to the portal. Their top 4 scorers (all double figures) are now in the portal and 3 of them were their leading rebounders as well. They now have 8 transfers.

You can't keep up. GMU just lost Wilson, their 5th leading scorer. They virtually have nobody coming back as the highest scorer returning was at 5.4 point last year.

Here's a guy we should look at. Normally I don't pay much attention to transfers from North Dakota, but this kid went to Williston-Northampton School.

Rebraca, a 6-foot-9 post from Serbia, was a second-team all-Summit League pick during the 2020-21 season.
Rebraca, who averaged 17.2 points per game this past season, spent three years at UND. He has 1,121 career points for the Fighting Hawks.

He also had 7.6 boards.

wondering if Rebraca is the son of the NBA player?

[69MG]

^ Yes. His father played in the NBA for 6 years.

Željko Rebrača (Serbian Cyrillic: Жељко Ребрача; born April 9, 1972) is a Serbian retired professional basketball player. After playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he finished his career with the Spanish ACB League team Pamesa Valencia.
His son Filip Rebrača currently plays basketball at the University of North Dakota

[bobolink]

starting to see transfers on the incoming side:
(from Verbal Commits)
PF Ejike Obinna (6-10, 243, 3★) | Position Rank: 29 is transfering to Saint Joseph's from Vanderbilt. - Per Jon Rothstein, CBS
PF Ira Lee (6-7, 240, 4★) | Overall Rank: 58 | Position Rank: 9 is transfering to George Washington from Arizona.

[Old Cage]

The transfer portal is on going at all times. Most guys enter it after the season is over however guys have stopped playing mid season and entered the portal. I believe a couple players (not at UMass) have entered the portal mid season and continued to play for their current team

We have a hockey player doing that right now. He has Carvy's blessing.

Who Cassaro?

Yes. He was in the lineup for one of the HE tourney games.

Update: As he is tonight.

[69MG]

Let's get all these guys back and have a reunion:

3/26/2021 - 2016 PF Tyrn Flowers (6-9, 200, 3★) | Position Rank: 43 will be transferring.

[Juice Stand]

I've been super impressed with the numbers Ty Flowers has put up at LIU, but I don't know that I would like to see him on this team right now. He and Dibaji have similar body types and play similar roles, and as I've said many times, McCall struggles with substitutions and getting guys minutes. If you have Dibaji and Ty, I don't think either of them is happy with playing time and they will have difficulty getting into a rhythm.

Dibaji has had a rough time getting into a rhythm here in general. Year one he sits until what, January because the NCAA can't get their thumbs out of their a****, and then this year he's dealing with Covid pauses and the wrist injury. Next year I'd like to see him ditch the 3-ball and play to his strengths: mid-range jumpers, defensive stopper, and improved rebounding.

[KahunaK]

Off topic but Marquette players are transferring now. Crazy in my mind. Shaka is a really good coach- not sure why they want to leave. If I were those guys, I'd be jumping up and down that he was the new coach. Texas was crazy to get rid of him. We'll see how that pans out for the Longhorns.

[uz2b-len]

Texas didn't get rid of him. Regarding transfers, not everyone wants to play his style. But I'm with you, I love to run around and wreak havoc

[inthescoop]

Texas didn't get rid of him. Regarding transfers, not everyone wants to play his style. But I'm with you, I love to run around and wreak havoc

He jumped ship before he was going to get fired.

[KahunaK]

by inthescoop » Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:38 pm

My guess is that Texas told him they would waive the buyout clause ($7 Million) if he went and found another job. If they fired him, Texas would have had to pay him the remaining contract. It was a win-win-win for Shaka, Texas and Marquette.

[69MG]

Don't know if this has been posted yet.

3/26/2021 - Duquesne 2016 C Michael Hughes (6-8, 240, 2★) is intending to forego his remaining eligibility in order to play professionally.

He's their leading rebounder, best shot blocker (1.6 per game) and 2nd leading scorer. The casualties in the A10 continue to grow.

[NilesGold]

^ It’s not a casualty when a kid declines a 5th year of college basketball. Just assume anyone taking that 5th year is going elsewhere, the instances of players deciding to stay at the same school for the free year have thus far been few and far between, regardless of level.