2023-2024 Starting Lineup

[XfansinKy]

Olivari will be fine. He has scored a ton of points in his career and is experienced. 38% career from 3 and had 28 against Texas and averaged 25 in two games against Florida Atlantic. Green will be a great change of pace guy off the bench.

I won’t be shocked if Olivari doesn’t take and make better shots than Boum did, and doesn’t fade down the stretch like Boum either, because he has stronger legs. Quincy can shoot. Props to Boum for carrying X a few games early on though.

[D-West & PO-Z]

With all the recent moves what are we thinking this year’s starting lineup and bench will look like?


PG: McKnight (SR)
SG: Olivari (SR)
SF: Claude (SO)
PF: Gytis Nemeiska (FR)
C: Ousmane (SR)

Looking back on this thread. You nailed it.

[drudy23]

I think Green needs more minutes. Yes, he can shoot, that's obvious, but his presence alone demands attention on the perimeter. If he's not taking shots, him being on the floor opens up the post a bit and it makes it easier on everyone to score.

That being said, offense really isn't our glaring issue.

[xavierj]

I think Green needs more minutes. Yes, he can shoot, that's obvious, but his presence alone demands attention on the perimeter. If he's not taking shots, him being on the floor opens up the post a bit and it makes it easier on everyone to score.

That being said, offense really isn't our glaring issue.

Yes I really like Trey but Dayvion has been really good taking care of the ball and putting pressure on the ball on the defensive end. He doesn’t give guards much room to work. He has a 5 to 1 turnover ration and had 16 assists the last two game. Sean isn’t taking that out of the game. Xavier needs help inside, the guards are good.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Yeah we have no steady low post offensive threat. A guy we can throw it down to in the post when we really need a bucket. We are missing Freemantle and even Hunter big time in that area.

[drudy23]

We miss Freemantle's post scoring tremendously. For all of his defensive struggles, he typically scored more than he gave up (most of the time). The inside/outside threat of him and Nunge were hard to guard for opposing bigs.

We need Lazar to be that guy. Or Gytis - those two have the most upside of our bigs in terms of offensive production. Gytis has been pretty good so far and I like his versatility in the paint and on the perimeter.

[bleedXblue]

Yeah we have no steady low post offensive threat. A guy we can throw it down to in the post when we really need a bucket. We are missing Freemantle and even Hunter big time in that area.

Last night was the first night I thought the same exact thing......really missing Free and really missing Hunters versatility

[DexterBailey84]

Man, so it turns out that returning just a single player from the previous years roster might take some time to come together, huh?

Who woulda thunk it ��*♂️

[American X]

We obviously miss Hunter and Freemantle, but are we also missing Cesare Edwards and Kam Craft? Could those guys have been solid, experienced rotational players? At least we would be playing guys who have been in the program for a while instead of putting cardboard cutouts on the floor.

[D-West & PO-Z]

We obviously miss Hunter and Freemantle, but are we also missing Cesare Edwards and Kam Craft? Could those guys have been solid, experienced rotational players? At least we would be playing guys who have been in the program for a while instead of putting cardboard cutouts on the floor.

Kam is on the team he just apparently was set so far back by medical issues he cant crack the rotation (or wasn't going to) and so he just is looking to redshirt.

I think at this point any big body might have helped but I don't thin Edwards would make some monumental difference.

We are obviously missing Free and Hunter, as you said, and they would have made a huge difference.