I enjoyed watching him play and wish him the best at his new school.

I believe in Cam Jake and Brandon that we have enough at the 2 guard spot for next year. Especially if Max returns who can play there also.

Main need is experienced PG from portal to go along with Lawson freshman who I believe is still hopeful coming.

So barring any other defections I say get another SF who can finish at paint and shoot 3s
Lastly a true PF who can play facing or back to basket!

This could all change if someone else transfers

Its portal picking time!

Not overly upset about this one either. Wilborn, Necas, Dixon, and Jake are the only transfers we really can't afford to lose.

Not terribly upset to see him go but also wish him the best. The simple fact is this team was not good enough last year, reflected by the early season start, the overall record, the streaky performances, and the many blown leads throughout the season. Team defending wasn’t great and I don’t think Dinkins was a guy who was making that any better. He was the best player on an average squad. We needed two guys like Clark and Dae Dae to make the run we did and Dinkins was not close to the level of player either of those guys were here.

He was getting 15 a game at Canisius and 12 here. He’s either going to go up a level and be a 6th man or stay at this level and start somewhere else most likely. He is not really an A10 lead guard at the 1 or 2 in my opinion and has a little Primo Spears/Jackie Johnson to him in the way he plays. Streaky and not particularly clutch when you compare some of the shots Grant and Clark made last year in tight games. I credit a lot of his volume production this year to a lack of having other guys that wanted to create offense for themselves consistently.  He was one of the few who would be aggressive to try to score and we need more guys like that to be competitive in general.

I think the losses so far have been guys who really aren’t going to elevate your program at this level. I really think we need to find proven transfer starters at both guard positions to improve with Jake and Maximus providing depth and challenging for minutes. You can also find out what hall is next year.

I would actually be ok with Crawford as the starting three next year with the Furman kid pushing him. I’d like to keep Dixon, Wilborn and Necas but think we need a starting center. Anyone else is just a guy to me.

I can't blame him for leaving. Every game down the stretch, Dru subbed in Rozier at about 4 minutes in every game regardless of what was happening and sat Tre?  Then in around 5 more minutes subbed him back in for Crawford, but kept Rozier in, again regardless of what was happening in the game. If I were Tre or Crawford, I'd have been a bit ticked off. It wasn't about how the game was going or how these 2 guards were doing, but some pattern substitution to get Rozier in the game.  That broke a lot of momentum in each of those game. I'd move on too. Best of luck to Tre. I hope the next team is a better fit.

His pops is on Twitter putting up some opinions. Bad look.

BluffHunter wrote:

His pops is on Twitter putting up some opinions. Bad look.

I’m not on twitter. What’s the gist?

Saw a number of games up close. I mentioned a while back that there was a visible level of friction between rosier and dinkins on the court. To me it was unacceptable and needed to be corrected. I’m ok with a reboot at this point.

Not really much on the Dinkins X feed, one or two dorks talking trash, but I did see E Mich guard Christian Henry has interest from the Dukes, along with some others, Dayton being one of them :-(

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5242936/christian-henry

Last edited by townsonkid (3/26/2025 12:23 pm)

Sorry to see Dinkins leaving but kind of expected it. Really thought he might end up in a Euro league somewhere. With NIL dollars being what they are, college ball has become quite lucrative and competes with overseas play. Wish him much luck!