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Post by diehardexplorer on Jul 6, 2024 20:20:59 GMT -5
are we sure that etienne is the committment? despite being highly rated out of prep school, his career stats over 3 seasons at ucla and depaul are 1.6 pts and 2.2 rbds and he could barely get on the floor last season for a bad depaul team. at this point, if he can provide some depth behind demetrius, that's great, but tweets i've seen implied this commit was from someone who would make a big impact. x.com/JonathanDunlea6/status/1809305336194691256?s=19 |
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Post by lasallejohn on Jul 6, 2024 20:49:25 GMT -5
Not sure I’m always trusting of his takes either. Guess we will see when there is an announcement of any kind
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Post by explorerburger on Jul 7, 2024 12:01:46 GMT -5
are we sure that etienne is the committment? despite being highly rated out of prep school, his career stats over 3 seasons at ucla and depaul are 1.6 pts and 2.2 rbds and he could barely get on the floor last season for a bad depaul team. at this point, if he can provide some depth behind demetrius, that's great, but tweets i've seen implied this commit was from someone who would make a big impact. x.com/JonathanDunlea6/status/1809305336194691256?s=19Yeah, that was my confusion as well. |
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Post by explorer88 on Jul 7, 2024 13:33:19 GMT -5
I suspect Jon Dunne is over reacting to the commitment. There simply are not a lot of high impact players eligible to play next year out there and available. He is close to Safret and that may be clouding his ability to be objective.
Any chance we have as 2025 commitment? I tend to believe Etienne is the commitment more than anything. He is a back-up and not an impact recruit some to be floating out there.
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Post by explorerman on Jul 7, 2024 15:27:57 GMT -5
are we sure that etienne is the committment? despite being highly rated out of prep school, his career stats over 3 seasons at ucla and depaul are 1.6 pts and 2.2 rbds and he could barely get on the floor last season for a bad depaul team. at this point, if he can provide some depth behind demetrius, that's great, but tweets i've seen implied this commit was from someone who would make a big impact. x.com/JonathanDunlea6/status/1809305336194691256?s=19I am with you on this. It is a very sad situation when an injury really derails a career. The ACL injury really did a number on him. As you stated, the numbers speak for themselves. |
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Post by explorerman on Jul 7, 2024 15:28:34 GMT -5
I suspect Jon Dunne is over reacting to the commitment. There simply are not a lot of high impact players eligible to play next year out there and available. He is close to Safret and that may be clouding his ability to be objective. Any chance we have as 2025 commitment? I tend to believe Etienne is the commitment more than anything. He is a back-up and not an impact recruit some to be floating out there. Said perfectly.. |
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Post by diehardexplorer on Jul 7, 2024 21:05:34 GMT -5
are we sure that etienne is the committment? despite being highly rated out of prep school, his career stats over 3 seasons at ucla and depaul are 1.6 pts and 2.2 rbds and he could barely get on the floor last season for a bad depaul team. at this point, if he can provide some depth behind demetrius, that's great, but tweets i've seen implied this commit was from someone who would make a big impact. x.com/JonathanDunlea6/status/1809305336194691256?s=19I am with you on this. It is a very sad situation when an injury really derails a career. The ACL injury really did a number on him. As you stated, the numbers speak for themselves. i completely forgot about his knee injury. maybe the excitement on twitter is tied to him finally being 100% healthy. some people take longer to recover. read up on him a little. as a freshmen, he got minutes on the 2020-21 ucla team that made it to the final 4. he didn't enroll until the second semester and didn't start playing until early february 2021. then he tore the acl in november 2021 and the rest is history. would love to see things work out for him here. dunph and staff will be good to him. |
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Post by victoriouslasalle on Jul 9, 2024 9:09:06 GMT -5
are we sure that etienne is the committment? despite being highly rated out of prep school, his career stats over 3 seasons at ucla and depaul are 1.6 pts and 2.2 rbds and he could barely get on the floor last season for a bad depaul team. at this point, if he can provide some depth behind demetrius, that's great, but tweets i've seen implied this commit was from someone who would make a big impact. x.com/JonathanDunlea6/status/1809305336194691256?s=19I am with you on this. It is a very sad situation when an injury really derails a career. The ACL injury really did a number on him. As you stated, the numbers speak for themselves. the injury issue explains a lot. I thought, his prep school promo videos were pretty impressive. the situation brings to mind Varrick Cutler from days gone by. |
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Post by calsufan on Jul 9, 2024 10:54:19 GMT -5
I am with you on this. It is a very sad situation when an injury really derails a career. The ACL injury really did a number on him. As you stated, the numbers speak for themselves. the injury issue explains a lot. I thought, his prep school promo videos were pretty impressive. the situation brings to mind Varrick Cutler from days gone by. Now that's a name that I haven't heard in a long, long time. I believe he passed awhile back. |
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Post by jb71 on Jul 9, 2024 17:35:56 GMT -5
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Post by victoriouslasalle on Jul 9, 2024 17:59:56 GMT -5
nice article. I remember his large knee brace due to his major knee injury that effected his jumping and mobility and I suspect led him from Maryland to La Salle. |
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Post by explorerman on Jul 9, 2024 21:34:12 GMT -5
Injuries just affect the taller dudes a lot more. Just more baggage to tend to. But as diehard mentioned before we are another year removed from surgery and that could help. Depth piece, maybe more. But I will ask around and see what I can find out. As said by explorer88 finding impact when school starts next month is just not happening. |
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Post by walkon on Jul 10, 2024 13:33:40 GMT -5
Mac Etienne has committed.
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Post by explorer88 on Jul 10, 2024 14:03:55 GMT -5
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Post by giveansk1 on Jul 10, 2024 15:05:23 GMT -5
Do we think La Salle came out ahead of the late portal movement? Is this better than Momo would have been? Probably tough to say but a nice scramble by the staff.
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Post by lasallejohn on Jul 10, 2024 15:10:36 GMT -5
Think we are set up better with our bigs than we would have been had roster stayed the same.
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Post by MisterD on Jul 10, 2024 15:10:37 GMT -5
If you asked me blind if I'd want the DePaul guy or the CC guy ...
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Post by victoriouslasalle on Jul 10, 2024 18:34:10 GMT -5
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Post by nealum on Jul 11, 2024 8:04:39 GMT -5
Etienne is now listed on the LaSalle roster as a redshirt junior.
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Post by roaddog77 on Jul 11, 2024 8:56:43 GMT -5
This is a nice pick up for us. An experienced big man might can give 15 minutes per game as a back up. Welcome to 20th and Olney Mac. |
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Post by victoriouslasalle on Jul 12, 2024 8:23:49 GMT -5
Think we are set up better with our bigs than we would have been had roster stayed the same. I am pretty excited about the potential each of our new "bigs" bring. Both projected as A10+ level Big talent at earlier points in their careers. Certainly we are looking at better possibilities than what we had. I am looking forward to seeing what they bring. |
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Post by las71 on Jul 12, 2024 8:36:44 GMT -5
I feel that Rokas could help us with his outside shooting which will likely continue to get better but when I watched bigger stronger low post players put their shoulders into his chest and bury him on defense, I really missed Doucoure. I expect better low post defense from Lilley and Etienne and do feel we're much improved at center.
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