‘22 TN C Handje Tamba

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bleedingTNorange said:
Let’s see how we close the class, with 15 scholarships you aren’t going to have 15 contributors, so it’s a good year to take a flyer on a guy or 2 to redshirt and see if maybe you found something there. We’ve landed Powell, if we land another impact transfer along with landing BHH we are sitting with quite a few impact players on the roster.
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Plus, transfers are still kind of a lottery ticket, so you want to stockpile as many as you can. Anosike was supposed to be an impact player, and we see how that turned out.
 
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germanicus said:
I've seen this different places and it always takes me aback. Jeronne Maymon with knees was a great college basketball player. Jeronne Maymon with shot knees was better than any of our posts in the last two years.
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His peak was the 30 pts 20 Reb game in a Hawaii I think? He was an amazing ball player
Undersized but very tough, explosive and agile
 
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CNeagleVolFan said:
I remember a guy named Kyle Alexander who became a key player for us during his junior and senior seasons. He was raw just like this kid, but I think he will be a solid prospect like Kyle.
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Kyle was way more athletic if memory serves. I hope he does develop. Barnes seems to love tall skinny guys who need a lot of work to play at this level.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
Seems like Kyle had close to a 40 inch vertical in high school. Could be misremembering. I don't see that from Tamba.
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I don't remember that, and it certainly didn't show in his game. At 6-10, a 40" vertical would be among the elite. Durant is 33.5", DeAndre Jordan is in the low 30s, LeBron is around 40+. I'll agree that KA was a better leaper than Tamba, but there's more to athleticism that jumping ability. Tamba is pretty athletic in transition, can handle the ball a decent bit, and gets up to block shots. I don't believe either is in the elite level of athleticism, and if we're splitting hairs, I'd give the edge to Alexander, but it isn't by a great deal, IMO.
 
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cncchris33 said:
I don't remember that, and it certainly didn't show in his game. At 6-10, a 40" vertical would be among the elite. Durant is 33.5", DeAndre Jordan is in the low 30s, LeBron is around 40+. I'll agree that KA was a better leaper than Tamba, but there's more to athleticism that jumping ability. Tamba is pretty athletic in transition, can handle the ball a decent bit, and gets up to block shots. I don't believe either is in the elite level of athleticism, and if we're splitting hairs, I'd give the edge to Alexander, but it isn't by a great deal, IMO.
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Someone said it in his recruitment thread back in 2015. Could have been speaking about someone else in the thread though. I just wish Tamba put up better numbers and wasn't such a clear long term project. We just have too many that float through the roster every couple of years.
 
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KA was able to run the floor immediately with his soccer background. But it wasn’t until he was a junior that he was consistently NOT fumbling balls passed to him. His 12’ baseline jumper really came around about that time as well. TN was a FF team his senior year had he not been hurt and had to sit in the NCAAT.

TN’s injuries have ruined several seasons. Kyle. Turner. Half the roster in 2020-21. Even both of Fulk’s freshman seasons. It’s part of it, but TN’s luck has been horrible. Grunfeld had a broken wrist. King was injured at the end of his sophomore year.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
KA was able to run the floor immediately with his soccer background. But it wasn’t until he was a junior that he was consistently NOT fumbling balls passed to him. His 12’ baseline jumper really came around about that time as well. TN was a FF team his senior year had he not been hurt and had to sit in the NCAAT.

TN’s injuries have ruined several seasons. Kyle. Turner. Half the roster in 2020-21. Even both of Fulk’s freshman seasons. It’s part of it, but TN’s luck has been horrible. Grunfeld had a broken wrist. King was injured at the end of his sophomore year.
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Yes, he had hands of stone for a long time, and very little basketball experience to boot. That injury his senior year was devastating, as were others back to Ernie and Bernie. Don’t forget the King night-before-Syracuse fiasco as well.
 
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rcrrcr said:
Marques Bragg 10 ppg; Grant Williams. 15 ppg; Jordan Hamilton 15 ppg; Marty Conlon 15ppg; Lamarcus Aldridge 14 ppg & 8 rbs; Kenny Sanders 22 ppg & 9 rbs; Michael Smith 12 ppg & 10 rbs; Chris Mihn 15ppg & 10 rbs; and for one year Kevin Durant 26 ppg & 11rbs.
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“Under the radar”
I don’t think that means what you think it means.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
KA was able to run the floor immediately with his soccer background. But it wasn’t until he was a junior that he was consistently NOT fumbling balls passed to him. His 12’ baseline jumper really came around about that time as well. TN was a FF team his senior year had he not been hurt and had to sit in the NCAAT.

TN’s injuries have ruined several seasons. Kyle. Turner. Half the roster in 2020-21. Even both of Fulk’s freshman seasons. It’s part of it, but TN’s luck has been horrible. Grunfeld had a broken wrist. King was injured at the end of his sophomore year.
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And Lofton went through his senior year with literal CANCER which likely cost us a deep run in March. You can't make up the things that happen to this program.
 
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The Dog said:
Right. Do u really want him with all the better kids, UT is on ? Because there is not one kid that has visited and/or will visit, that I wouldn't take over Tamba, even if they are all guards and Mitchell
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First off you don’t know what he’s going to become, you’re basing it off a recruiting ranking, and while those typically are accurate there are outliers such as Kyle Alexander who had a worse ranking and offer list than Tamba. Tamba also plays for BMaze, a program that just gave us Jaden Springer and is about to give us BJ Edwards, and has a host more of kids upcoming…so if taking Tamba keeps that pipeline open and he’s a development guy willing to work hard and stick it out in a culture of guys wanting to transfer all the time then you take him.
 
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