2025 Transfer Portal Thread

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Am very fine if we get Ament, Freeman, Rice. But I see only two starting guards with Gillespie/Rice, and while I love the firepower that having Freeman off the bench at the three brings, and think we'll play very big with Ament and Freeman at 3 or 4, worried that there will be not a ton of reliable punch at guard off the bench with just Boswell and Henderson.
 
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VolsNetClippers2025 said:
Am very fine if we get Ament, Freeman, Rice. But I see only two starting guards with Gillespie/Rice, and while I love the firepower that having Freeman off the bench at the three brings, and think we'll play very big with Ament and Freeman at 3 or 4, worried that there will be not a ton of reliable punch at guard off the bench with just Boswell and Henderson.
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Leave 1 spot open.

Wait for 5th year ruling. If approved, ask Gainey to come back.

Problem solved!
 
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VolsNetClippers2025 said:
Am very fine if we get Ament, Freeman, Rice. But I see only two starting guards with Gillespie/Rice, and while I love the firepower that having Freeman off the bench at the three brings, and think we'll play very big with Ament and Freeman at 3 or 4, worried that there will be not a ton of reliable punch at guard off the bench with just Boswell and Henderson.
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I assume no way we actually land all these guys.

But if we did, I’d view Freeman and Ament more like wings. There would be a ton of flexibility we’d have between the 2-5 positions with the personal we’d have.

So I wouldn’t be worried about guard depth too much. It’s more a question of what does the PG duties look like when Gillespie sits.

But we’ve dealt with that over the ZZ era and been mostly fine. Gainey worked in a pinch. Santi and JJJ could get us into offense. We actually used Mashack a lot last year (not this year though) I’m sure someone in this group can do it too if we don’t believe that player is Boswell
 
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Stoked said:
Give every dollar Nico was gonna get to Ament please!
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And what if he's not ready for this league or Barnes defense? Gonna pay another 5 star for lackluster returns? Plus he's gone after this year so why not get a multi year college guy who might be around for a couple of seasons?
 
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omghulkhands said:
I assume no way we actually land all these guys.

But if we did, I’d view Freeman and Ament more like wings. There would be a ton of flexibility we’d have between the 2-5 positions with the personal we’d have.

So I wouldn’t be worried about guard depth too much. It’s more a question of what does the PG duties look like when Gillespie sits.

But we’ve dealt with that over the ZZ era and been mostly fine. Gainey worked in a pinch. Santi and JJJ could get us into offense. We actually used Mashack a lot last year (not this year though) I’m sure someone in this group can do it too if we don’t believe that player is Boswell
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I think Amari Evans may surprise people and be more of a contributor than some may think.
 
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VolsNetClippers2025 said:
Am very fine if we get Ament, Freeman, Rice. But I see only two starting guards with Gillespie/Rice, and while I love the firepower that having Freeman off the bench at the three brings, and think we'll play very big with Ament and Freeman at 3 or 4, worried that there will be not a ton of reliable punch at guard off the bench with just Boswell and Henderson.
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Don't forget Amari Evans. He looks good.
 
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pearloftn said:
I think Amari Evans may surprise people and be more of a contributor than some may think.
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Amari Evans is tough & ready defensively for D1 Barnes. Won't need to coach him up defensively much like other freshmen. Amari realistically could be a solid wing bench rotation player deoending on who we end up getting in the portal. Boswell will be solid off the bench too who we seen guard 1-3 as a freshman. We just need 1 proven scorer as a 6th Man off the bench imo
 
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VolsNetClippers2025 said:
Am very fine if we get Ament, Freeman, Rice. But I see only two starting guards with Gillespie/Rice, and while I love the firepower that having Freeman off the bench at the three brings, and think we'll play very big with Ament and Freeman at 3 or 4, worried that there will be not a ton of reliable punch at guard off the bench with just Boswell and Henderson.
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Basically nobody plays more than 8 guys by March. Your list has 8 guys so…
 
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StepCross said:
Basically nobody plays more than 8 guys by March. Your list has 8 guys so…
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If 1-2 guys get injured like we often see. A guy transfers, & 2 guys get in Foul Trouble on any given night you need depth, solid depth. You also don't want to play your walk on in march either.
Florida won championship - they had great depth.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Added Passmore & Hausen…


Point Guards:
Ja’Kobi Gillespie-COMMITTED TO TENNESSEE
Jordan Marsh
Barrington Hargress
Jaland Lowe
Silas Demary
Jayden Reid
Donovan Dent
Budd Clark
Jalen Jackson

Guards:
Rodney Rice
Gabriel Pozzato
Donovan Atwell
Lamar Wilkerson
Alex Chaikin
Brendan Hausen
Rakease Passmore
Malik Thomas
Sebastian Mack
Vyctorious Miller
Quante Berry
Jacari White
Josh Dix
Isaac McKneely
Adrian Wooley
Treysen Eaglestaff

Wings:
Elyjah Freeman
Nick Dorn
Lejuan Watts

Posts:
Jaylen Carey-COMMITTED TO TENNESSEE
Alvaro Folgueiras
Davis Bynum
Nehemiah Turner
Alex Steen
Jacob Cofie
Lathan Sommerville
Kaleb Banks
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Can mark Pozzato off the list
 
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