Basketball Player turnover!!!!

I follow Brownell and the basketball team very much. I back them by attending games and can definitely feel a new energy around our basketball program, but nobody is giving Brad credit for another area he has faced. Player turnover. Since Brad signed immediately we lost recruits from Purnell, as well as had transfers. Since that first year, Brad hasn't had it easy keeping a polished group together for a tenure. It seems year after year we have a key transfer leave the program because he was upset about playing time. Jambo is one player we were hoping would come back as a starter. Instead he transfers again to his 3rd program leaving us short a key bigman. Same thing happened last year with the 7ft kid transferring in the off-season. Luckly we have tapped the transfer market well, but its not easy trying to replace a bigman who u were going to rely on. It's forced Brad the last 2 years to go to a guard oriented set and protect the bigman instead of turning them loose. After watching the Gtech game I saw Malik William(pf) and Amir Simms (pf/SF) make huge progress. If Clemson is to erase the weakness of limited down low play in the blocks, I believe the maturation of those 2 freshman will be key down this stretch. Any thoughts?

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I give Brownell all the encouragement he needs

Jan 29, 2018, 6:03 PM

but this turnover that you speak of are the players that he personally recruited except for those defections that first year. by the way, that first year was his best year of the program until this year... which hopefully, it means that he has turned a corner and is headed in a more consistent direction. however, his original starting lineup this year consisted of only one of his own recruits, all others were transfers. he has a good group of young talent on the bench, but they don't learn and progress on the bench, so, how does he win now and prepare the bench players for their roles next year?

my biggest concern is that Brownell does not recruit at a high enough level to compete regularly for positions 3-6 in conference play... it is going to take talent either to directly compete against the unmentionables, the talent to run a decent half court offense that can be a threat inside or out, or the talent that can run a system that creates matchup nightmares through motions and ball screens that open up the mid range game and points in the paint. those same players also have to be competent enough defensively to get stops and not force the offense to trade points...

Williamson aside, there has been viable talent available to us that Brownell missed on for a variety of reasons. player transfers could be a buggaboo, but, some of those transfers should have been passed over for better available talent anyway, but in the scheme of things, we ended up settling for them and they turned out to not be ACC quality. without bonafide stars, college teams have to be able to rotate 8 players without drop off and up to 10 to give quality spot minutes; this gives you a quality 40 minutes of game play, fresh legs, high energy for the whole game defensively and a psychological ploy that the other team's star is going to have to work his absolute hardest to meet his averages... keep the star below his averages and you pull your opponent back into your wheelhouse to have a punchers chance to get the win...

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I give Brownell all the encouragement he needs

Aren't Devoe & Grantham both recruits that came in as frosh?***

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Agreed on Simms and Williams.

Re: Basketball Player turnover!!!!

This will always be a problem with Brownell

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