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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.
 
cookies said:
Doubtful they are really Like that and Tiller is
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Yea I agree with you. Think Tiller is being underrated by some here. He is worth the money. Kansas had a lot of options, his stats would have been way better if he was on a team that relied on him more.

Also Tiller is the perfect 4 who can slide to the 5 when Somto inevitably gets in foul trouble.
 
Da Jumbo Mutombo said:
Yea I agree with you. Think Tiller is being underrated by some here. He is worth the money. Kansas had a lot of options, his stats would have been way better if he was on a team that relied on him more.

Also Tiller is the perfect 4 who can slide to the 5 when Somto inevitably gets in foul trouble.
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Yeup. It’s bizarre how people are hating on 8 ppg at a premier program. Like I said elsewhere, Bryson’s freshman years numbers are better than Ernest Udeh’s, Flory’s, and Zach E from St John’s when they all played at Kansas as freshmen.

I don’t get how you can hate on Acaden Lewis for what he did against “tough competition,” then also hate on Bryson Tiller who took a lesser role to win more games — against better competition……Shelton Henderson’s numbers at Duke would’ve looked more or less similar to Dame Sarr’s.

Moreover, agaisnt BYU, who we also played, Tiller went 8 for 13 with 21 points & 7 rebounds in a W. He hit 3 threes. He had 11 and 10 w/ 3 blocks in a W against Houston. Flory had 4 points. Against Arizona without Peterson, Kansas won off his 18 points (7/13; 2/5), 2 three pointers, 3 stocks, and 8 rebounds (3 offensive). Shoots 70% from the FT line.

In the words of KG, you ain’t watching the games Lord. There is a reason why this kid was a top 25 player in his grade; and OTE made him the youngest North American professional basketball player ever when they gave him a 6 figure salary. The talent is obvious and jumps off the screen. He was playing with Ant Edwards’ 17U team when he was in 8th/9th grade.
 
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Da Jumbo Mutombo said:
Yea I agree with you. Think Tiller is being underrated by some here. He is worth the money. Kansas had a lot of options, his stats would have been way better if he was on a team that relied on him more.

Also Tiller is the perfect 4 who can slide to the 5 when Somto inevitably gets in foul trouble.
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Yeup. It’s bizarre how people are hating on 8 ppg at a premier program. Like I said elsewhere, Bryson’s freshman years numbers are better than Ernest Udeh’s, Flory’s, and Zach E for St John’s when they all played at Kansas as freshmen.

I don’t get how you can hate on Acaden Lewis for what he did against “tough competition,” then also hate on Bryson Tiller who took a lesser role to win more games — against better competition……

Moreover, agaisnt BYU, who we also played, Tiller went 8 for 13 with 21 points & 7 rebounds in a W. He hit 3 threes. He had 11 and 10 w/ 3 blocks in a W against Houston. Flory had 4 points. Against Arizona without Peterson, Kansas won off his 18 points (7/13; 2/5), 2 three pointers, 3 stocks, and 8 rebounds (3 offensive). Shoots 70% from the FT line.

Shelton Henderson’s numbers at Duke would’ve looked similar to Dame Sarr’s. In the words of KG, you ain’t watching the games Lord.
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I’d wager the NCAA avg is probably 75-80 points a game per team. Most guys usage is gonna be low.

If he’s scoring 8 points on 10-12 touches a game he’s worth it. Could easily expand to a 15 point scorer if you add five more touches a night.

CBB is the absolute worst sport to box score watch. You learn next to nothing doing that. Yet people see 8 ppg and think he’s a scrub because if he did that in the NBA he’d be fast tracked to the G League.
 
aelmiami said:
I’d wager the NCAA avg is probably 75-80 points a game per team. Most guys usage is gonna be low.

If he’s scoring 8 points on 10-12 touches a game he’s worth it. Could easily expand to a 15 point scorer if you add five more touches a night.

CBB is the absolute worst sport to box score watch. You learn next to nothing doing that. Yet people see 8 ppg and think he’s a scrub because if he did that in the NBA he’d be fast tracked to the G League.
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All facts. What’s bizarre is perennial fans of the sport seem to not understand this. It’s why evaluations are so important with the transfer portal because for every dalton knect or Duncan Robinson, there are guys with good shooting numbers at lower levels who can’t shoot in the p5. The sample sizes are tiny.

We’re dealing with 40 minutes per game instead of 48; 30 seconds on the shot clock instead of 24 — offensive rebounds reset to 20.

Only two teams scored more than 90 ppg on average—Arkansas and Alabama. We were one of the 82 teams (outta 365) who scored more than 80 ppg on average; and countless cis commentators felt like we had a mediocre offense. The median average of the 365, Boston University’s offense, was 75.5 ppg so you are spot on.

Aday Mara is going to be a first rounder off 12.1 ppg after averaging 6.4 ppg as a sophomore at UCLA. He was ultimately underpaid. Morenz Johnson averaged 7 ppg at Illinois and became the second highest scorer at Michigan with 13.

Elliot Cadeau isn’t some sharpshooter. Neither is Nimari Burnett who is a glue guy. But Acaden Lewis and Dante Allen could fill similar roles for us as those two did for Michigan. If, If, we get the player who can take us from good to great — which i believe is Bryson tiller
 
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