2025 Transfer Portal

[Xville]

This guy is on campus today

https://x.com/pdtscouting/status/190...pouy3B6BA2rQBg

Evansville's Gabriel Pozzato is entering the transfer portal per multiple reports

The 6'7 Italian freshman averaged 15.3 points per game this season, was all MVC freshman team and one of the most prominent players in the nation

HM Prospect+ NBA upside

I like the look of this kid. Hard to tell from MVC just how athletic but looks athletic at that level...6'7, has the ability to shoot though not great shooting numbers. Assuming he's more of a 3 than a 2?

[GoMuskies]

Yes, please get Enrico Pallazzo on Xavier's team. Great umpire!

[Caveat]

The Italian memes must continue.

[xuphan]

this dude was visiting yesterday. I like just how many big guys we are going after. It is desperately needed, and glad to see that it's a point of emphasis for this staff:

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...thony-robinson

Again, not eye popping numbers by any means, but young, a top 100 guy and someone that X can hopefully develop if he were to come here.

Garnering interest from Kansas, Notre Dame and Miami among others.

Ya, we just brought in the big from New Mexico with not eye popping stats. Bigs who need development worry me because you typically get more busts than not. Hopefully we get an impact Big soon who can slot into the starting lineup. One is fine but you don’t want a roster full of them.

[Xville]

Ya, we just brought in the big from New Mexico with not eye popping stats. Bigs who need development worry me because you typically get more busts than not. Hopefully we get an impact Big soon who can slot into the starting lineup. One is fine but you don’t want a roster full of them.

Here’s how I look at it. Get 4-5. We have traore and then this one. Get 2-3 more. Let’s say we have 5 big men.. 2 starters, 3 development. Get that at the guard spot too… maybe 3 solid guys, 2 developing and then 2-3 hybrids. There’s your 12-13 dudes. 8 man pure rotation, 5 development. Some of those development guys may leave but maybe some stick around and become real players. If not, no harm no foul. Not everyone is going to be in the rotation, on a 12 man team. I’m good with just getting as many bigs as you can. I’m so sick of being undersized the last few years. We need big dudes to compete night in and night out and we need enough of them so that an injury doesn’t completely derail the season.

[LOLmickcronin]

Here’s how I look at it. Get 4-5. We have traore and then this one. Get 2-3 more. Let’s say we have 5 big men.. 2 starters, 3 development. Get that at the guard spot too… maybe 3 solid guys, 2 developing and then 2-3 hybrids. There’s your 12-13 dudes. 8 man pure rotation, 5 development. Some of those development guys may leave but maybe some stick around and become real players. If not, no harm no foul. Not everyone is going to be in the rotation, on a 12 man team. I’m good with just getting as many bigs as you can. I’m so sick of being undersized the last few years. We need big dudes to compete night in and night out and we need enough of them so that an injury doesn’t completely derail the season.

I keep seeing people saying this but this isn’t reality. Guys aren’t going to come here to ride the bench and be a developmental guy. You’re either good enough to play here and complete in the big east or you’re going to a mid major to make a little money and try to work your way up. You’re not going to get guys to come in and ride the bench. And if you do they’ll Trey green do kam craft their way out anyway.

[Xavier]

^^^^ “let’s build a program like Marquette! Develop and keep players!”

“Why are we going after projects they will just leave”

[Xville]

I keep seeing people saying this but this isn’t reality. Guys aren’t going to come here to ride the bench and be a developmental guy. You’re either good enough to play here and complete in the big east or you’re going to a mid major to make a little money and try to work your way up. You’re not going to get guys to come in and ride the bench. And if you do they’ll Trey green do kam craft their way out anyway.

What's the alternative? We only have so much money. We can't afford 12 BE ready players. No one can.

If the guys 10-12 leave, they leave. You hope some of them take a little bit longer view, knowing that "I'm getting paid. I can develop and play here spot minutes, maybe develop to the point where I'm a key cog next year"

[D-West & PO-Z]

I keep seeing people saying this but this isn’t reality. Guys aren’t going to come here to ride the bench and be a developmental guy. You’re either good enough to play here and complete in the big east or you’re going to a mid major to make a little money and try to work your way up. You’re not going to get guys to come in and ride the bench. And if you do they’ll Trey green do kam craft their way out anyway.

You acknowledge we aren’t going to have a rotation of 13 players right? If we can agree on that then what you are saying makes no sense. Unless you’re suggesting we are going to use only 8-9 scholarships and the rest will be walk ons?

[XUGRAD80]

I guess the alternative is to just pick up 7-8 BE type starters and use walk-ons to fill the rest of the roster?

Edit:.i see that D-West just barely beat me to this idea/question.

My take….ALL players want to start and want to get minutes. I wouldn’t want someone on my teams that didn’t. That wasn’t a competitor. But if they aren’t going to do that at a school like X they then have a choice to make….do they stay in a top notch major university program, and take in all the perks that come with that? Or do the drop down a level and accept what that brings?

I’m sitting here watching the Reds on TV and I’m wondering how many of the backup players want to be sent back down to the minors so they can get playing time? I’m sure that 99.9% of them would rather sit on the bench in the bigs than be a superstar in the minors. Not only is the pay much better but so are all the other things that go with it.

I think that there are more players than a lot of people think that accept that they need to improve their game to play at a BE level, but are also willing to take the time, and do the work, necessary to get to that level.