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That's good. Despite what happened last year, I think he's a good player. Everyone not named Trae Young sucked last year.
 
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Oklahoma transfer guard Kameron McGusty announced he will join the Hurricanes.
McGusty, a 6-foot-5, 192-pound scorer, will sit out this year to satisfy NCAA rules that govern players moving between Division I colleges. He will have two years of on-court eligibility beginning in 2019-20.

He is the second transfer Miami added this offseason, joining former Wyoming guard Anthony Mack. UM hopes the latter is eligible this season.
The Hurricanes, who lost star underclassman guards Bruce Brown and Lonnie Walker to the NBA Draft, return three guards from last year’s team: sophomore-to-be Chris Lykes, junior D.J. Vasiljevic and redshirt sophomore Miles Wilson, who sat out last year after transferring from Mount St. Mary’s.

UM is also hoping to land Florida Gulf Coast transfer Zach Johnson, a Miami native and former high school teammate of junior forward Dewan Huell. He is also considering Creighton, Louisville and Arizona.

McGusty, a Katy, Texas native, was ranked by ESPN as the No. 46 player in the 2016 recruiting class, and 10th-best shooting guard. That website called him a “long and lean playmaker” who “gets teammates involved and can score in the lane with a variety of crafty finishes.”

He was Oklahoma’s second-leading scorer as a freshman (10.9 points), earning All-Big 12 honorable mention and a place on the conference’s all-rookie team. However, he had issues last year in Norman and back home.

He lost his starting spot to junior Christian James. Adjusting to life off the bench was hard for McGusty, according to a story in the Tulsa World. He was also dealing with the death of a close friend.

His minutes went down (24.9 to 18.5), and other averages dipped slightly across the board. He went from 10.9 points to 8.0, 2.2 rebounds to 1.9, 0.9 assists to 0.3, 0.8 steals to 0.3, 77.8 percent free-throw shooting to 75.0, 35.2 percent 3-point shooting to 33.3 and 43.0 percent field-goal shooting to 42.3.

He finished on somewhat of a positive note. After starting two of the Sooners’ first 26 games, he started the final six games of the year next to James and star freshman Trae Young, whom CBS Sports listed as the No. 5 in its latest mock draft, and the top point guard available.
Walker, incidentally, was No. 16 in CBS Sports’ mock draft, which was compiled by writer Gary Parrish. Brown was No. 25.

McGusty’s profile recalls that of another 6-5 shooting guard from the Houston area who came to Miami from a Big 12 school to The U: Sheldon Mac, who went by McClellan in his college days.

After seeing his shooting numbers dip and hearing accusations from coach Rick Barnes about his lack of defensive effort, Mac left Texas after two seasons. He sat out 2013-14 as Miami missed the NCAA Tournament. He was part of an NIT team as a junior and reached the Sweet 16, alongside seniors Angel Rodriguez and Tonye Jekiri, in 2015-16.
 
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HurikaneMarc said:
We get Johnson and we can almost say we came away nearly unscathed from the FBI probe. Still like to get Carey just because he's really good and local and a legacy.
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I wouldn't say that. We were in the running for a bunch of 5* 2018 kids who all dropped us like a sack of potatoes when the FBI thing broke. That said, our first foray into the one-and-done market was basically a flop, so I'm good with the quality of the two transfers.
 
tcgrad1014 said:
I wouldn't say that. We were in the running for a bunch of 5* 2018 kids who all dropped us like a sack of potatoes when the FBI thing broke. That said, our first foray into the one-and-done market was basically a flop, so I'm good with the quality of the two transfers.
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We can't replace the potential of the 5 star recruit with transfers, of course. But if Johnson is as good as advertised and we get some immediate help from Mack, they can help bridge us back to the point where 5 star guys are looking at us again. That's where we are right now, trying to survive this FBI crap and return to grace.
 
HurikaneMarc said:
We can't replace the potential of the 5 star recruit with transfers, of course. But if Johnson is as good as advertised and we get some immediate help from Mack, they can help bridge us back to the point where 5 star guys are looking at us again. That's where we are right now, trying to survive this FBI crap and return to grace.
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Oh, no? Who was better for us their first active year in the program -- Larkin and McClinton, or Lonnie? Could add Sheldon Mac and Kadji in there too.
 
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hotshot said:
Oh, no? Who was better for us their first active year in the program -- Larkin and McClinton, or Lonnie? Could add Sheldon Mac and Kadji in there too.
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Thats is the joy and curse of the transfer. You already have an idea of their ability but the further they are along the closer they are to their potential. The 5 star freshmen generally has all the potential in the world. But then you can't keep them.

We can't build a great team around transfers. They have to sort of support the grassroots guys you've been building on since they were freshman.
 
hotshot said:
Oh, no? Who was better for us their first active year in the program -- Larkin and McClinton, or Lonnie? Could add Sheldon Mac and Kadji in there too.
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HurikaneMarc said:
Thats is the joy and curse of the transfer. You already have an idea of their ability but the further they are along the closer they are to their potential. The 5 star freshmen generally has all the potential in the world. But then you can't keep them.

We can't build a great team around transfers. They have to sort of support the grassroots guys you've been building on since they were freshman.
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You can't develop the "grassroots" guys if they have one foot in the NBA draft the day they enroll. Bring in the HS 4* that will develop over 4 years, and the transfers.
 
HurikaneMarc said:
We can't replace the potential of the 5 star recruit with transfers, of course. But if Johnson is as good as advertised and we get some immediate help from Mack, they can help bridge us back to the point where 5 star guys are looking at us again. That's where we are right now, trying to survive this FBI crap and return to grace.
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McGusty was actually the #41 ranked player in the 2016 class. That's pretty close to 5* territory.

Having Trae Young require the ball 95% of the time really hurt him this year. He's a lot like McClellan in that his strength is with the ball in his hands
 
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HurikaneMarc said:
Thats is the joy and curse of the transfer. You already have an idea of their ability but the further they are along the closer they are to their potential. The 5 star freshmen generally has all the potential in the world. But then you can't keep them.

We can't build a great team around transfers. They have to sort of support the grassroots guys you've been building on since they were freshman.
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Our best team ever, the ACC reg season and tourney champions of 2012-13 (29-7), was totally built around transfers -- Larkin, Kadji and McKinney-Jones.
 
hotshot said:
Our best team ever, the ACC reg season and tourney champions of 2012-13 (29-7), was totally built around transfers -- Larkin, Kadji and McKinney-Jones.
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Larkin was technically a low 4 star kid who never played at DePaul, but point still stands:

Kadji - UF transfer, 4 star recruit
TMJ - UW-Milwaukee transfer, unranked
Durand - 4 star recruit
Reggie - 3 star recruit
Gamble - 3 star recruit
Rion Brown - 4 star recruit
 
hotshot said:
Our best team ever, the ACC reg season and tourney champions of 2012-13 (29-7), was totally built around transfers -- Larkin, Kadji and McKinney-Jones.
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Maybe not totally built around transfers because like Austincane said Larkin was technically not a transfer(he was a last minute flip) and he was the best player on that team. KK and TMJ were both supplementary players which is my point. The real juice on that team was Durand Scott who was a leader here since his freshman year and Larkin. In any event transfers can be very helpful in filling out a roster or making up recruiting ground when the FBI takes a dump on you.
 
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