You're greatly underestimating Heise. He's going to play a bunch and he brings the rebounding from the wing that this team really lacked at times last year. He's a guy that just does everything well but you don't notice him and look up at the end of the game and he's got 15/6/5. He's exactly what this roster needed as a spot starter/first guy off the bench.
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Great to hear Kyle is rescheduling and that we are still in play.
I just have this creeping suspicion we're going to bring in a relatively unknown player, who ends up busting his a** for TJ, works his way into the rotation, and ends up going down as a Cyclone fan favorite.
You should definitely meltdown and panic and decide that TJ is the same as Prohm. Well done.
His point was that he would still take the under because there will be ZERO minutes with Chatfield and Jackson on the floor at the same time next year. Coincidentally that's the same number of minutes that Ward and BRE spent on the floor together last year
I really like what Heise could potentially bring to this team. I also think some are sleeping on Jefferson. After watching some film on him…his game is like a combination of Niang and Brockington.
Not straight from juco, but Jones was at Indian Hills before Buffalo, and Hadley was at Indian Hills before Colorado. As far as straight from juco, Donovan Jackson would be the last one, I believe.
I think in the age of immediate transfer eligibility from the D1 level, there's less benefit to them overall for both the players and D1 programs (except if there are academic qualifying issues or if a player develops a ton like Jones did).
You're greatly underestimating Heise. I don't know if it's people's distaste for UNI or what but that addition is really getting over looked. He is going to be more than an end of the rotation guy this year and will probably start in 2025-2026.
Wisc situation is bad. But it could happen anywhere. Let’s hope not us. Portal is still open for another 1.5 weeks
We can win games with existing guys playing 4. But not against really good teams. Not big enough and not mature enough. To advance farther in dance than this year we need 4 and 5 men who get points for us against other good bigs
To be clear my expectations are due to the next years roster. Heise has the talent to contribute to ISU and bigger improved role than Pav had last year. I just not sure how many minutes he'll be asked to play with Lipsy, Gilbert, Cujo and Milan Playing the 1-3 positions
Right now, Otz got commits from 3 of the 4 guys that he zeroed in on (Jackson, Heise, and Chatfield, with the fourth being Hadley), and Iowa State is still in play for the other two (Jefferson and Kyle). If either Jefferson or Kyle comes to Ames, I think that offseason grades out to an A- at least, maybe an A. If both come to Ames or one comes and the final spot gets filled with someone else who fits, then we're talking A/A+.
Obviously we won't fully know how things compare until guys hit the court (especially defensively), but I'm confident that the frontcourt group will give more offensively versatility next year than we've had in the Otz era. I'd also note that the closest thing to a "miss" Otz has had on transfers that have come to Ames have been Jeremiah Williams (only because of injury/gambling), Enaruna (who still wasn't a bad player), and Pav (who just got beat out by guys better than him). This staff has proven to be good at evaluating guys and finding guys who fit with what they want to do. There's no reason not to trust them.
We return the core of a top 10 team and we have multiple people in multiple threads already giving up on next year. That's crazy even for CF.
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I think Kyle cancelled his visit this weekend according to some previous posts. With the way Kyle and Hadley have worked out I'm very skeptical about Jefferson at this point also. I either think we can't afford them or they want more PT than TJ can offer.
IMO any of those 3 would put us from probably an Elite 8 ceiling again to a potential national title contender. If we don't get any of them then we will have to count on Jackson to be a stud.
I could be way off on Heise and Chatfield also, but I feel like they were just added as depth and won't really have any effect on how good we can be next year.
I'm just worried about getting destroyed in the paint if we are running 3 guards and Milan out there at all times.
I also think people are sleeping on the improvement/potential improvement of our returning players. Curtis Jones was playing like a 1st team all-conference player the last couple months of the year. Gilbert, Lipsey, and MM can all get better/stronger in the off-season.
