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Re: 2019-2020 Season
« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2019, 11:36:57 pm »
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- First off, personnel. We have two new players – 6-2/183 soph guard Quari Alleyne  (#12) and 6-4/215 jr G Lenny Kadisha (#24). Alleyne last played as a reserve at Herkimer CC in 2016-17 before, according to a Statesmen story, walking on last year with Aubrey. I don't recall his name though. Kadisha played minimal minutes alongside Mouhamadou Gueye (pronounced GEE supposedly ... like the beginning of geese? or geez?) at Monroe. I don't suspect either will play anything more than mop-up minutes.
- Hassan Ceesay: out for the year with a torn right ACL. Sucks.
- Frankie Policelli: I was told "50/50 at best" for him to be eligible this year. He did participate in practice with the team, but I was a little underwhelmed. Is he more than just a spot-up shooter? In a practice in which the guys were getting after it, he was didn't seem as enthused.
- Geno kept on saying "the defense is ahead of the offense" and that our halfcourt offense has to improve as these guys get used to each other and how things are done.
- We're playing three games against pro teams in Europe soon – two in Spain, one in France I believe. In other news, Jaron Cornish recently signed to play professionally in Spain but we're not facing his new squad.
- I went in wondering where we were at with point guard. It looks to me like Makale Foreman can very much handle the position. I'm guessing he starts with McKenzie and Tavin (pronounced TAY-vin) Pierre-Phllippe behind him. Foreman's going to be a dude. He felt like a veteran presence out there, and I think he's a guy who's going to really look to fill it up.
- Speaking of Pierre-Philippe, I think he'll be an asset down the road but probably not a ton this year. I have Tyler Stephenson-Moore a little bit ahead of him. TSM looks smooth. He knocked down open threes, looked comfortable in the mid-range and was more explosive than I anticipated. Defensively, both TSM and TPP looked the part to me. Granted, this is an amateur eye making an assessment based on a single practice.
- Miles Latimer looked like he put on muscle. The roster lists him at 6-3/192 – same as last year – but just looked more filled out to me. The hair's shorter and (gulp) shorts are back!
- The guy you couldn't take your eyes off of was Gueye. He looked comfortable handling the ball, has a nice looking jump shot and can GLIDE. There was one break where it looked like he took off from the elbow and dunked it with ease. I mean, EASY. It probably wasn't the elbow but he is some athlete. His numbers weren't much at Monroe so I'll reserve judgment before anointing him a star.
- Otchere looked like Otchere. He and Gueye will be tough around the rim but I hope they can stay on the floor.
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