Easily the best portal coup by Boals. I don't know how Breath comes off the bench after starting 60 games the last two seasons and this is a kid who had 16 points and 10 rebounds against High Point. Some massive rebounding games too with 17 and 14.
If he's ok with that, then what a team player. To Shabamon's point in the other thread, the SoCon is higher in NET rankings than the MAC.
I really do think we'll see Hadaway slide to the 3 and start alongside Simmons, Breath, AJB, and Pavs.
Regardless, mission accomplished this portal season.
Not wild about what that does to our spacing -- Simmons only had 6 3PA last season and Breath had 0. Hadaway's a below average three point shooter, too.
But honestly, it's exciting to actually have the option to play big and there are plenty of minutes to go around for a 3 man big rotation.
Think these two additions do make it pretty clear that Boals doesn't expect much from Evans this year.
Or he saw his two big guys go down and the season fall apart, its CYA time.
I love a line-up moving Hadaway to 3. He doesn't have to (and wont) play 30 minutes there. Most nights I'm sure AJB will slide to 3 and Elliott at the 2, but to have 10-15 mins a night where we go 6'8" across the front is something I thought I'd only see in my dreams.
Evans coming in off the bench - thats 4 guys who can legitimately play the 4 or 5, instead of making 6'3" AJ Brown or Elliott play there.
We just upgraded in a massive way.
We have about 17 shooters and more on the way. Now we have two new guys who REBOUND. Next year should be entirely unrecognizable. And that's great.