UNC basketball 2026 transfer portal

rodoheel said:
Brown is great at attacking the paint, but at his size, he's going to have to demonstrate much improved shooting and overall offensive efficiency to have a chance at being a 1st round pick.

Dropping his usage rate from where it was at Utah will likely help. But he's never been even an average outside shooter in his college career.
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Yeah, he's OK. The notion a 22 year old 6'3" below average shooter or distributor is an 'NBA talent' is highly questionable . He may wind up being a solid 3rd option on a good P5 team. Still a lot to prove w/r/t that. If they grant a 5th year, the pickup is more valuable. Regardless, the Heels need Veesar back and at least one more higher impact pickup before talk of being a contender should even start.
 
Gmonet said:
Yeah, he's OK. The notion a 22 year old 6'3" below average shooter or distributor is an 'NBA talent' is highly questionable . He may wind up being a solid 3rd option on a good P5 team. Still a lot to prove w/r/t that. If they grant a 5th year, the pickup is more valuable. Regardless, the Heels need Veesar back and at least one more higher impact pickup before talk of being a contender should even start.
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Obviously any talk about contending assumes Veesaar’s return.
 
Damn, Sean May. Ever heard of a GLP-1?

I'm just kidding. It's just weird to see the superstar athletes of years past get old and fat. Even if Sean always struggled with his weight a little.
 
Gmonet said:
Well sure. I was implying it'll take a fair bit more than that.
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Well we're already assuming Able is in the fold as well, because that's what IC is reporting.

If Veesaar comes back the rotation looks something like this:

PG: Brown, (Denis/portal backup?)
SG: Able, Denis, Young
SF: Avdalas, Stevenson, (Denis/Young?)
PF: Stevenson, Adams
C: Veesaar, portal backup

That's certainly good enough to contend, health permitting, IMO. Not guaranteed to contend - some question marks about shooting in particular, and how the perimeter guys will fit together - but it would be a damn good effort in Malone's first year, IMO.
 
rodoheel said:
Well we're already assuming Able is in the fold as well, because that's what IC is reporting.

If Veesaar comes back the rotation looks something like this:

PG: Brown, (Denis/portal backup?)
SG: Able, Denis, Young
SF: Avdalas, Stevenson, (Denis/Young?)
PF: Stevenson, Adams
C: Veesaar, portal backup

That's certainly good enough to contend, health permitting, IMO. Not guaranteed to contend - some question marks about shooting in particular, and how the perimeter guys will fit together - but it would be a damn good effort in Malone's first year, IMO.
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If the NCAA approves the 5 year eligibility + grandfather clause, maybe we can keep Seth Trimble?

Also, Maximo is a 3, we will be in trouble if he has to play the power forward.
 
BillOfRights said:
Is that lineup a significant upgrade over last season?
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Probably depends what you consider significant. Won’t be on any pre-season favorites lists

But on paper, potentially better at 4 of 5 positions. If Able/Neo can make considerable jumps the ceiling is high

Still some question marks but I would say less than a season ago
 
rodoheel said:
Well we're already assuming Able is in the fold as well, because that's what IC is reporting.

If Veesaar comes back the rotation looks something like this:

PG: Brown, (Denis/portal backup?)
SG: Able, Denis, Young
SF: Avdalas, Stevenson, (Denis/Young?)
PF: Stevenson, Adams
C: Veesaar, portal backup

That's certainly good enough to contend, health permitting, IMO. Not guaranteed to contend - some question marks about shooting in particular, and how the perimeter guys will fit together - but it would be a damn good effort in Malone's first year, IMO.
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Contend for what? Veesar is great. Large question marks everywhere else. So decent pieces with some possible upside, but poor shooting, poor/awful depth and very little frontcourt size. The notion that Denis, Young and (as a freshman) Adams are meaningful pieces of a nationally contending team seems way too optimistic. Top tier of the ACC? Ok, maybe.
 
nycfan said:
If the NCAA approves the 5 year eligibility + grandfather clause, maybe we can keep Seth Trimble?

Also, Maximo is a 3, we will be in trouble if he has to play the power forward.
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I think the opposite on Maximo - I think he'll be better suited to the 4 than the 3 as a freshman. But I guess we'll see.
 
North Carolina has 4 guards transferring—Derek Dixon, Kyan Evans, Luka Bogavac + Jonathan Powell.

Last season they combined for: 2 dunks, 104 2PT FGM, 103 FTM

Terrence Brown Jr last season: 20 dunks, 191 2PT FGM, 158 FTM
 
Heelsandeers said:
Probably depends what you consider significant. Won’t be on any pre-season favorites lists

But on paper, potentially better at 4 of 5 positions. If Able/Neo can make considerable jumps the ceiling is high

Still some question marks but I would say less than a season ago
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Yea
No Top 5 pick Caleb Wilson
 
superrific said:
I didn't follow the team very closely this year but it always seemed to me that Dixon was being graded on a low curve. As in, he was better than Evans and so that meant he was pretty good. When he really wasn't.

As I've said before, I don't know if his transfer is a big loss. People say that he could develop into a good shooting guard and that's fine -- I don't want to argue about that here. But in terms of actual production last year (and expected production this year), he wasn't good.
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He was inconsistent, but he could be very good at times. He was forced to play out of his more natural position and take on a role he wasn’t meant for. He would most likely excel playing more off the ball, but he also has just enough PG skills to cover that position in a pinch. He likely has a fairly high ceiling on the college level. He’s the kind of guy who looks like he could be an all-conference caliber player as an upperclassman. He was a very good shooter for a freshman and his shooting may have suffered some from being forced to run the point. I’m bummed he left.
 
Gmonet said:
Contend for what? Veesar is great. Large question marks everywhere else. So decent pieces with some possible upside, but poor shooting, poor/awful depth and very little frontcourt size. The notion that Denis, Young and (as a freshman) Adams are meaningful pieces of a nationally contending team seems way too optimistic. Top tier of the ACC? Ok, maybe.
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Well, for one thing, you have to have some hope/expectation that we will have one of the best coaches in college bball next year. I don't know if we will or not, but we're paying our coach like an elite coach. We need to at leats hope for that he will have a positive impact on scheme, player development, and in-game strategy.

For another, Veesaar is probably a borderline preseason 1st team AA type of player next year. An anchor any team would kill for. If he doesn't come back, contending talk obviously goes out the window.

I will happily admit that you have to engage in some projection for the guys beyond Veesaar, but I think there's a plausible path to Brown/Hurt/Avdalas being a very high-level perimeter rotation with plenty of positional size, which has been a real issue for us lately. Certainly Brown and Avdalas will need to be much more efficient than last year, but they will be playing lower-usage roles with a lot more surrounding talent than they've ever had. Able had a very promising freshman year and needs only ordinary freshman-sophomore development to be a very good wing starter.

How many other teams have fewer question marks in their rotations for next year, right now, than we would have with that lineup? Yes, we still need a depth big and probably a backup PG. Yes, things will have to break our way on both individual player development and team cohesion. But that's the same boat pretty much everyone else is in too.

And I don't think Young is a "meaningful piece" of anything to be clear - he's likely our 9th/10th man. I definitely don't think Denis came back expecting to be behind him.
 
Off hand, I think all the FF teams, FL, MSU, Duke, Tennessee, UVA and Miami have far fewer questions. Can't speak too meaningfully past that. Heels are probably in the middle of the next 20-30 schools with a huge range of possible outcomes. Without AT LEAST some meaningful bench additions, they'd probably be on the lower end of that range.

I mean, Malone might be the best coach ever and the portal adds might all be home runs, but I'd put the odds on that as very low.
 
IC just dropped its Tuesday intel. Highlights:

*Staff flew out to meet with Henri in La on Monday hoping to secure a return to CH for next season. They didn't
*Henri is now inclined to enter the NBA draft and go through the full draft process
*Recent announcements by Mullins, Haugh and Ngongba returning to college have increased his chance of being a first round choice
*UNC starting to realize it can't wait until the May 27 deadline for Henri's potential withdrawal from the draft
*Staff has been scouting and vetting extensively this month international players for the starting center position
*UNC is far along in negotiations with backup post players
*Staff confident we land Able.
 
Not sounding great to get Henri back. Great for him if can end up as a first rounder this year, but a big blow to UNC. Will need to pick up a couple of solid interior players (presumably international at this point) just to be a top 25 team.
 
PTOHeel said:
Not sounding great to get Henri back. Great for him if can end up as a first rounder this year, but a big blow to UNC. Will need to pick up a couple of solid interior players (presumably international at this point) just to be a top 25 team.
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