UNC basketball 2026 transfer portal

Peppers49 said:
Alright, you guys heard the man. Pack it up and leave the thread. No more discussion about the team until the end of next season when we have a full sample size to form an opinion from.
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Since you're pretending to care about my opinion (why would you do such a thing?) talk about the team a lot. I'll do that. I'm just not going to rate, rank or predict how good they are going to be. I see a fairly large gap in the two POVs.
 
This roster feels much more balanced than last year despite lacking the higher end/proven talent

You're counting on a lot of guys to develop. But 3 of them will be on NBA draft boards a year from now with any level of success

Still a lot of size and versatility. Much more athleticism. Really will depend how well they defend

Add one more serious rotation player and this team will win a lot of games and get much better as the season progresses
 
finesse said:
I doubt they've seen them all play and I know they haven't seen them play together. Hell, does anybody even know what style we are going to play.

It's mostly that one of my biggest pet peeves is the seeming obligation to form an immediate opinion on almost any issue despite how scanty your information is or how unnecessary it really is for you to have one. I didn't mean it to seem personal. You just provided the soapbox.

I do like the way things are shaping up but it still feels incomplete and there's so little we don't know about fit, style and chemistry. I'm a long way from saying we're even a good team, much less compare us to teams I know even less about.

I'm done with it. Y'all have fun with it.
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Well, you can chose to see the glass half empty or half full. Since we have no clue this could be a juggernaut team.
 
Bigs23 said:
Well, you can chose to see the glass half empty or half full. Since we have no clue this could be a juggernaut team.
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"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known".
 
ZZLPHeels said:
I could see us “developing” a couple of these young guys only for them to leave us after this season. I don’t see the upside in getting projects anymore.
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Or maybe they stay. Much easier (and cheaper) to retain players you have already recruited than to start from scratch every year

Illinois is returning 5 of their top 6 players eligible from a final 4 run a season ago

Florida, UConn, Duke are bringing back just about everyone who will be playing in college next season

The best teams today will retain talent and bring it in from both the portal and HS ranks
 
Heelsandeers said:
Or maybe they stay. Much easier (and cheaper) to retain players you have already recruited than to start from scratch every year

Illinois is returning 5 of their top 6 players eligible from a final 4 run a season ago

Florida, UConn, Duke are bringing back just about everyone who will be playing in college next season

The best teams today will retain talent and bring it in from both the portal and HS ranks
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Yeah, those are successful teams with huge payrolls not changing coaches.
 
Roster taking shape, still needs a couple of pieces. Caleb Wilson was obviously a special talent; we definitely don't have that on next year's squad. Seems that they have shifted to putting a priority on size, which wasn't always the case in the HD era. The other big shift is that UNC has finally put international recruiting as a priority. That was never an emphasis under Roy and it carried over to HD until the last year.
 
CRHeel94 said:
Roster taking shape, still needs a couple of pieces. Caleb Wilson was obviously a special talent; we definitely don't have that on next year's squad. Seems that they have shifted to putting a priority on size, which wasn't always the case in the HD era. The other big shift is that UNC has finally put international recruiting as a priority. That was never an emphasis under Roy and it carried over to HD until the last year.
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Yeah, it was interesting that Roy never went after international players. From the late-1970s until retirement, Dean Smith almost always had at least one international player on the roster (though most of them played HS ball in the U.S.). And that was back before international talent was as good as it became during Roy’s tenure at UNC. Dean’s last squad had 4 international players + Ed Cota, who I believe had dual Panamanian-US citizenship.
 
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Icky Mettle said:
Yeah, it was interesting that Roy never went after international players. From the late-1970s until retirement, Dean Smith almost always had at least one international player on the roster (though most of them played HS ball in the U.S.). And that was back before international talent was as good as it became during Roy’s tenure at UNC. Dean’s last squad had 4 international players + Ed Cota, who I believe had dual Panamanian-US citizenship.
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Ed was born in LA and played ball in Brooklyn. I don't think he counts as an international player in any meaningful sense.

The only two international players on that team, as we use the word today, were Evtimov and Okulaja. I don't remember if Vasco was eligible that year or if that was the year the NCAA fucked him and us, but he obviously counts as a recruit.

You are right about Dean getting international players who played HS here. Of course, that's in part because Dean liked big men and big men are always going to be more of an international mix because of the scarcity of height.

I'd also add that we were going after Tony Parker hard one of those years, but he decided on the NBA instead.
 
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