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Thorne to Illinois

If it wasn't sooooo sad


It would be quite comical at this point. Here I thought Chryst was a horrible closer.............Dixon and staff makes him look like J Calipari
 
Very, very discouraging. Pitt had playing time and a supporting cast to sell this kid, plus the ACC angle since he's from North Carolina. WTF is going on with this staff?
 
We really could have used him ..... why did he pick Illinois over Pitt and others ?
 
It isn't good

It is building to the point right now, where other programs have to be whispering to recruits and transfers ...
 
Originally posted by goalieman:
We really could have used him ..... why did he pick Illinois over Pitt and others ?
Didn't the Iilini's only big just declare for the draft? Somewhere I saw he would have virtually no competition in the paint there. Even though Dixon clearly wanted him, here there is Young and Nix.
 
Excuses. He could be had at least 25 minutes a game here and we could have redshirted Nix.
 
Nix would qualify as "no competition"

For Thorpe.

PT and position wise, Pitt was a REALLY nice spot for him.

He would have played 25+ minutes next to Young, not being the only big guy, with a guy like Young who would have been a nice match with him.
 
Re: Nix would qualify as "no competition"

Surely it didn't come down to a bidding war for Thorpe, right?

So what's the explanation?
 
Re: Nix would qualify as "no competition"


Originally posted by ThatPittGuy:
Surely it didn't come down to a bidding war for Thorpe, right?

So what's the explanation?
It couldn't be that the kid just liked Illinois better could it?

Admittedly I have no clue why he decided to go there and I'm certainly not saying there aren't reasons to be concerned but sometimes it's not all that sinister or complicated.
 
Re: Nix would qualify as "no competition"

That's kinda what I was getting at. There's been a lot of talk recently about Pitt's unwillingness to get its hands dirty. Here we have a kid who apparently just liked Illinois better.

From here, I refer you to Jeffeburgh's post.
 
Re: Nix would qualify as "no competition"

I'm quite aware that Pitt won't get it's hands dirty.

And I'll refer you to Harve's post - doesn't sound like there's not much competition for pt there either.
 
Can we quit with the "Pitt has the membership in the ACC to sell recruits" angle? It doesn't work, not even on kids from ACC country.

You win or lose recruits on your own merits, not because of the conference. Otherwise Wake would win 25 games every year. And they don't.

This post was edited on 4/19 1:45 PM by OakParkPanther
 
Re: Nix would qualify as "no competition"

Nix would spell Thorne, but he wouldn't cost him minutes. Young would play next to Thorne and maybe get a little more rest than he was able to last year, with Jeter or someone else at the 4 next to Thorne for a few minutes/
 
Redshirt Nix?

How often does it happen that a JUCO transfers then finds himself being redshirted immediately? He's already played two years, he doesn't need to mature physically.

Thorne should have picked Pitt because playing time is available, and then this board suggests he would play 25 minutes per game? This is his last year of college basketball, he is probably hoping to play 35 minutes. Maybe he forgot to read Pantherlair, where we redshirt transfers and move our two best players to different positions. He probably just looked at Pitt as a team whose best player was a sophomore C, leading scorer was a soph PF, and was bringing in a JUCO C. Illinois probably looked like a much better opportunity for playing time.
 
Re: Redshirt Nix?

Who said anything about redshirting Nix? That's laughable.

As for Thorne, as I've said before, he had as many minutes as he earned at Pitt. Nix wouldn't get in his way, except maybe when he's trying to walk through the locker room, and Young would be able to play where he belongs at the 4. Artis could operate at the 3, he is definitely more of a perimeter player than a front court banger. We could mix things up, go big, go small, etc.

Unfortunately, it was not to be.
 
Maybe it's happened, but I've never heard of a JUCO redshirting for any reason other than injury. These guys want to go somewhere where they can step right in and play, not sit for a year.

The only other reason I can see for a JUCO redshirting is that when you bring the guy in you realize he can't play a lick, and hope that by sitting him for a season maybe he blossoms into something. No JUCO transfers to a school that plans on redshirting him.
 
Maybe the downward trend Pitt has been on the last 4 years is a recruiting tool for other schools to use coaches could ask them why go to a school that going in the wrong direction
 
Re: Redshirt Nix?

Thorne played an average of only 24 minutes per game in conference games at Charlotte. He did average 26 minutes overall but his overall mpg is a bit skewed by playing 43 minutes in an early OOC OT game. I think his next highest was 34 minutes. He had 7 games where he played 30 minutes or more, most early in the OOC schedule.

I doubt he would have played any more than the 24-26 here.
 
Re: Redshirt Nix?

thebadby2 posted on 4/19/2015...

Who said anything about redshirting Nix? That's laughable.


Well, there are consecutive posts in this very thread, just to name two. It is laughable. That was my point, sorry you missed it.
 
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