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Perkins signed with the College Park Skyhawks in the NBA G League in October of 2023. He lasted a little over a week before waived. Nothing else currently exists on him that I can find.

Seems to be the epitome of new-age recruiting. Kid is forced to go low but produce and then bail out and sell to the highest bidder.

@willie so that's new then? Recent change?

If the kid is as good as some say shooting-wise, this is a pretty crappy list of top options.

I thought practice couldn't start until sometime in October? Y'know ..... Midnight Madness and all that jazz. Did this change and I somehow missed it?

I thought Rob Loe ran the floor well ......

Tough luck, bad luck.

@slu72: VCU lost Ace Baldwin two years ago when Rhoades went to Penn State. I believe Ace is using his COVID year at State College this coming year. VCU returns its entire starting lineup minus Sean Bairstow. That puts Zeb Jackson at the point, Joe Bamisile at SG; Max Shulga at SF and Christian Fermin at center. That's a lot of seniors. Plus they added former SLU walk-on Phil Russell. They retain Billups and Belle off the bench but lost promising big Toby Lawal to Virginia Tech. Given the losses and chemistry projects elsewhere in the A10, this has to be the preseason front runner for the league. Loyola lost alot of continuity and senior leadership in Braden Norris, Tom Welch, Phil Alston (per Rothstein) and Dame Adelekun. DeLoach didn't do too well at Georgia, playing in all 32 games with 12.8 mpg, 3.8 ppg and 3.3 rpg. But he was pretty decent in his two years prior at VCU. He will make for an interesting front line presence with Miles Rubin. Dawson and Quinn return at the point and Edwards and Watson return at the shooting guard. Dayton has traded in Holmes for Zed Key from Ohio State and the Kobe twins for Posh Alexander of Butler/St. Johns. Is that enough? I am guessing Nick Santos becomes the offensive focal point to start. If Malachi Smith can't recover fully from two years of knee issues, Javon Bennett will again run the point. Neither Smith nor Bennett are big scorers to date. St. Joes does indeed have Billy Lange and he has an NBA pedigree. They have no interior right now as Christ Essankando left but with the rage of the NBA being 5-out, I can see Lange employing such as offense. Basically, he has four experienced guards with Rasheer Fleming as a shooting big. Once again, I have no clue who he has on the bench, if anyone.

@slu72: As I've said, the conference is so jumbled and populated by transfers that making sense out of it is hard right now. If Umass is 8th, that's a pretty high ranking considering they lost Cohen and Cross. Rothstein had them at sixth so what do I know? The middle of the pack of the A10 is always a crap shoot. You just never know. I can't see Rhode Island being Rothstein's 8th but I guess someone has to be. Thery were awful last year and lost key pieces in Weston, Montgomery and Kortright. Mason, Rothstein's seventh, has like two decent returnees; all three of these teams are chemistry projects right now. At #9, he had Duquesne and I guess the question is did they learn how to win as a program last year? Doubt it. Which leaves the Top Five. Looking at VCU on paper, I'd put them at the top. With Loyola winning last year, and getting a guy like Jalen DeLoach, I'd put them at two. Those two I'm okay with. Which leaves us, Dayton and St. Joes. Personally, I believe in Coach Schertz so I think we'll battle well. Dayton lost its entire interior game in Holmes and its external shooting in Brea and Elvis. Will Alexander and Key replace that? I kind of doubt it. And St. Joe's always has the great Billy Lange on the bench in the best of a Martelli continuation. He has two guards in Reynolds and Brown but the rest is again a chemistry experiment. All in all, I think Rothstein has the top pretty well sorted out.

Well, I kind of agree in your assessment of Yuri and the NBA. But I really don't watch. I just thought if he's on the team as he was last year, it would be a better sign to see him playing some. Of course, I don 't understand giving $8 million contracts to the 55th player drafted when that same guy got like $450k last year.

Willford is off to Oregon State, no?

Wow! 15th? Really.

Both summer league games he’s been a “DNP - Coach’s Decision.”

anyone know why?

It's a good rundown. Nothing really unexpected. VCU looks a lot tougher when put up on paper like this.