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The Watsco Watch: (4/14)

Trinton Breeze
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Welcome back to “The Watsco Watch,” where Kamdyn and I bring you the latest on Miami Hurricanes recruiting and the transfer portal.

We’ve got several updates to give you guys since the first time we reported on this, so sit back, your favorite show and news source is back.

Let’s get into it.

By: Trinton Breeze

What I'm hearing

- Miami just hosted a pair of transfer portal recruits in Kansas forward transfer Bryson Tiller and Georgia center Somto Cyril. Tiller wants to start wherever he lands in college, so from what I’m hearing, he is not likely to come to Miami and is currently set to visit Missouri next. Miami just landed Somto two days ago.

- I haven’t heard much on Acaden Lewis, but I still feel like Miami is in a good spot to land the former four-star recruit and Villanova transfer. He visited around this time last year, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up committing somewhere without visiting Miami again. A commitment could come soon.

- Miami will host Colorado center Bangot Dak. He will also visit Oregon, SMU, and Vanderbilt. Kamdyn has everything you need to know on him HERE: Hearing Vanderbilt and Cincinnati are in the lead for him.

- Since we last spoke, the Hurricanes coaching staff has contacted many recruits in the portal such as McNeese transfer Tyshawn Archie, FAU transfer Isaiah Elohim, Marshall transfer Dunk Joseph, and Villanova guard transfer Bryce Lindsey, who is also a teammate of Acaden Lewis.

- Five-star 2026 guard Dylan Mingo decommitted from North Carolina yesterday. Not sure if Miami goes this route or not.

- Matthew Able is fully focused on the draft and hasn't made much progress towards a potential transfer destination yet

- I'm hearing Jaland Lowe will go to Georgetown.
 

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I am very interested to see how jai completely flips this roster for the 2nd year in a row. Great start with Ciryl. Hopefully Lewis next. Then it will be really interesting to see where jai & staff take it
 
Allabouttheu95 said:
I am very interested to see how jai completely flips this roster for the 2nd year in a row. Great start with Ciryl. Hopefully Lewis next. Then it will be really interesting to see where jai & staff take it
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Luckily there’s some bones to build from and move forward with. Getting Henderson to come back as quickly as he did is a huge step in getting some quality guys to believe in the vision.
 
I dont get the Tiller "wants to start" comment. Was UM offering him a backup job instead of starting alongside Somto?

Would be a weird pitch considering Jai's pitch to Reneu was to have a big like Ideh next to him.
 
Da Jumbo Mutombo said:
I dont get the Tiller "wants to start" comment. Was UM offering him a backup job instead of starting alongside Somto?

Would be a weird pitch considering Jai's pitch to Reneu was to have a big like Ideh next to him.
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Tiller and Reneau are different players. Malik was a multi-year starter and double digit scorer at Indiana. Tiller is talented but less of a proven commodity. Not saying that Caleb is proven but if Tiller is asking for a f*ck ton of NIL I'd rather roll with Caleb at the 4 and plug holes elsewhere.
 
JZCane0825 said:
Tiller and Reneau are different players. Malik was a multi-year starter and double digit scorer at Indiana. Tiller is talented but less of a proven commodity. Not saying that Caleb is proven but if Tiller is asking for a f*ck ton of NIL I'd rather roll with Caleb at the 4 and plug holes elsewhere.
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Not much else “elsewhere” given we already seem locked into Lewis for the PG and already have our 6th man in D Allen. Only other spot is SG, and we aren’t big game shopping there (Blackwell). IMO we need both a transfer 3 and D SG and a starting PF.
 
JZCane0825 said:
Tiller and Reneau are different players. Malik was a multi-year starter and double digit scorer at Indiana. Tiller is talented but less of a proven commodity. Not saying that Caleb is proven but if Tiller is asking for a f*ck ton of NIL I'd rather roll with Caleb at the 4 and plug holes elsewhere.
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Money/NIL is a different reason and strategy. The post said he wanted to start, which insinuates that he was offered or looked at as a bench role. If staff decided Tiller was not worth the ask, fine...but the insinuation of the OP comment was not a monry issue but a role issue.

Yes, Reneau was a different player, but Tiller is clearly a starting caliber player who played next to a true Center at Kansas.
 
Have we made contact with Paul McNeil from NCSU? Started 32 games and shot 42.7% off 7.2 threes a game. IMO he would be the ideal sharpshooter next to Lewis (should we land him).
 
Highline17 said:
Not much else “elsewhere” given we already seem locked into Lewis for the PG and already have our 6th man in D Allen. Only other spot is SG, and we aren’t big game shopping there (Blackwell). IMO we need both a transfer 3 and D SG and a starting PF.
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This has been a fear of mine since the portal opened. Not to say we have access to the staffs board but the board overall based on what is being reported here just doesn’t make sense to me. Of course landing Cyril and Lewis is huge but we’re flipping an entire roster again in year 2 and I’m not sensing that given what is being reported. Hopefully there are some competent euros looking to come to miami who don’t get as much media attention. We need filler

I loved what Lucas did in year 1 for dozens of reasons, but one thing I truly appreciated living the end tenure L era…. He actually filled the roster. 10+ guys.

I hope to see that again this year because it matters.
 
Allabouttheu95 said:
This has been a fear of mine since the portal opened. Not to say we have access to the staffs board but the board overall based on what is being reported here just doesn’t make sense to me. Of course landing Cyril and Lewis is huge but we’re flipping an entire roster again in year 2 and I’m not sensing that given what is being reported. Hopefully there are some competent euros looking to come to miami who don’t get as much media attention. We need filler

I loved what Lucas did in year 1 for dozens of reasons, but one thing I truly appreciated living the end tenure L era…. He actually filled the roster. 10+ guys.

I hope to see that again this year because it matters.
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What isn’t making sense to you? We’re a week away from the portal even closing and you’re already freaking out about us not filling out a roster.
 
JZCane0825 said:
What isn’t making sense to you? We’re a week away from the portal even closing and you’re already freaking out about us not filling out a roster.
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I’m not freaking out. I shared my opinion on what is being reported by media does not align with flipping a roster again in year 2.
 
Bruh bruh, tighten up the typos lol

- Five-guard 2026 guard Brandon McCoy decommitted from North Carolina yesterday, not sure if Miami goes this route or not.
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Allabouttheu95 said:
I’m not freaking out. I shared my opinion on what is being reported by media does not align with flipping a roster again in year 2.
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I'm going to say this in the most respectful way possible but I wouldn't call the current media coverage of Miami basketball overly comprehensive relative to other high major programs. It's fairly isolated to CIS and CIS only, and even then, we're only getting 5-10% of the tea leaves relative to what's actually happening.
 
A few days ago it was reported that we contacted Justin McBride (PF) of JMU. Any update with him?
 
Trinton Breeze said:
Welcome back to “The Watsco Watch,” where Kamdyn and I bring you the latest on Miami Hurricanes recruiting and the transfer portal.

We’ve got several updates to give you guys since the first time we reported on this, so sit back, your favorite show and news source is back.

Let’s get into it.

By: Trinton Breeze

What I'm hearing

- Miami just hosted a pair of transfer portal recruits in Kansas forward transfer Bryson Tiller and Georgia center Somto Cyril. Tiller wants to start wherever he lands in college, so from what I’m hearing, he is not likely to come to Miami and is currently set to visit Missouri next. Miami just landed Somto two days ago.

- I haven’t heard much on Acaden Lewis, but I still feel like Miami is in a good spot to land the former four-star recruit and Villanova transfer. He visited around this time last year, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up committing somewhere without visiting Miami again. A commitment could come soon.

- Miami will host Colorado center Bangot Dak. He will also visit Oregon, SMU, and Vanderbilt. Kamdyn has everything you need to know on him HERE: Hearing Vanderbilt and Cincinnati are in the lead for him.

- Since we last spoke, the Hurricanes coaching staff has contacted many recruits in the portal such as McNeese transfer Tyshawn Archie, FAU transfer Isaiah Elohim, Marshall transfer Dunk Joseph, and Villanova guard transfer Bryce Lindsey, who is also a teammate of Acaden Lewis.

- Five-star 2026 guard Dylan Mingo decommitted from North Carolina yesterday. Not sure if Miami goes this route or not.

- Matthew Able is fully focused on the draft and hasn't made much progress towards a potential transfer destination yet

- I'm hearing Jaland Lowe will go to Georgetown.
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Bryson Tiller the R&B singer?
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