Except at the one-and-done level, college basketball is pretty much a perimeter game these days. However, we look to have some above-average talent among the bigs, at least by Sun Belt standards. I am curious to see how Coach Beard uses them. Will they play a substantial role in the offense, or just be in the game for defense and rebounding and put-backs?
If Daniel Green's game is not ready already, since he will only be here one year, there will not be much time to develop it. However, looking at the press release when we signed Shoshi, he looks like a kid who even in two years could develop into a pretty good player for us. In the first place, he only weighs 210#, so you figure the staff will put some more weight on him. And there is the comment from his juco coach: "He is just the nicest, hardest working kid you could ever wish to meet." That seems to indicate that he is teachable and has a good work ethic. Also, he shot 51.5%, which means he at least knows how to get the ball in the goal from in close (and a distressing number of big men can't do that). I am looking for good things from him over the next two years.
The player who is really exciting, though, is Oliver Black. He is an SEC-level talent who, because of his redshirt transfer year, will have nothing to do this coming season but hone his game without worrying about playing time. And even though players live for gametime and hate not playing, sometimes they can take giant strides in that year off. It is entirely possible that he could burst on the scene next season and dominate inside for three years in the Belt.
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