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Miami Among Schools in Contact with Kansas Transfer Bryson Tiller

If Jai can pull this off. MIAMI is a serious NC contender. Like Top 10. Now find some shooters for God sake. As great as Jai has been, how can a basketball coach not believe in shooting? It is baffling. I want a **** jump shooter somehow, someway. Mid range and 3 pt range. I am starving.
 
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Cane30 said:
If Jai can pull this off. MIAMI is a serious NC contender. Like Top 10. Now find some shooters for God sake. As great as Jai has been, how can a basketball coach not believe in shooting? It is baffling. I want a **** jump shooter somehow, someway. Mid range and 3 pt range. I am starving.
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This is a really lazy, shortsighted assumption. Last year, he signed Tre Donaldson (38% from 3 at Michigan), Tru (34% at New Mexico), Marcus Allen (40% from 3 at Missouri) and Timo (37% for Mega Basket). The results were what they were , but we brought in 4 players that shot over 34% from 3 the previous year.

Obviously, we have a ways to go as far as filling the roster out, but to say that the staff doesn't value perimeter shooting in 2026 is asinine.
 
Cane30 said:
If Jai can pull this off. MIAMI is a serious NC contender. Like Top 10. Now find some shooters for God sake. As great as Jai has been, how can a basketball coach not believe in shooting? It is baffling. I want a **** jump shooter somehow, someway. Mid range and 3 pt range. I am starving.
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Even with this signing, Miami wouldn't be a contender, for the exact reason you noted. It's almost impossible to win it all if you can't shoot and no one on this roster, as it stands today can shoot worth a ****. It would be one of the most physically imposing rosters in the country, but a simple zone would be a nightmare, because of the inability of the team to consistently stretch and tilt the floor.

Until the roster takes full shape, I'm not worried, but I don't think it's an accident that Coach Lucas is building this roster like high end AAU programs build theirs: Get a ton of high end athletes and figure it out later. It's a pretty effective method, until you come across someone that isn't as athletic, but can shoot. Teams built like this, without shooters are prime upset bait in the tournament, because it's unlikely they will be able to match a hot shooting team. That said, we don't know who else is coming, so I'll hold off on making a final determination until then.
 
JZCane0825 said:
Would absolutely take him and think he'd be a great fit in this lineup next to Somto, but this isn't a player we should be getting into a bidding war for. For reference, Pete on the pod this morning mentioned that Lewis and Somto, both better players, took less money to come to Miami than they could have gotten at other programs.
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If not Tiller, then who? Somto being better than Tiller is debatable.

The budget is the budget and we have those two good to go already. There are more portal players than HM slots. The scarcity lies with quality bigs. If we want to be a contender, we need another really good one.
 
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cookies said:
If not Tiller, then who? Somto being better than Tiller is debatable.

The budget is the budget and we have those two good to go already. There are more portal players than HM slots. The scarcity lies with quality bigs.
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Plenty of guys that we can pivot to not to mention guys are still going in/will be going in over the next 6 days.
 
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Da Jumbo Mutombo said:
Anybody know what it says about Tiller?

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Kansas transfer Bryson Tiller​

Arizona was set to host Kansas transfer forward Bryson Tiller on campus on Wednesday, however, the visit is now off. He’s already been to Miami and Missouri and his decision will likely come down to those schools, barring another jumps into the mix. Right now, it’s too hard to tell which way he is leaning.
 
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