I see Samuel splitting his time between 4 and 5, and not sure exactly who of the four perimeter guys starts, but it's looking pretty deep, balanced, and solid. What struck me is that we have five kids on this roster who have shot at least 35% for their careers from the arc (against two last year), and five who shot at least 37% from the arc last year (also against two last year). Even if Rishwain doesn't recover in time to contribute this year, I can't imagine our shooting isn't massively improved.
I saw a February tweet from a Rishwain family member that said the January diagnosis was incorrect, and that Julian had only torn his ACL. If that is true, I would think that he would be back in action before the start of this coming season.
I'd read somewhere, maybe it was Eric or Chris Harry, that his focus was on getting rehab completed before the start of fall practice. In his corner, he now will be at a place with the best in sports medicine. The sooner we can get him to Gainesville, the better.
He might recover fairly quickly, it will take this coming season to mentally block it out. We have enough depth where he can concentrate getting stronger not just his knee, but his body too. Practice with the high caliber players that will resemble the coming season’s opponents. It will get him prepared for his minutes as he gets them.
FYI: / Transfer Portal Rankings: On 3 Look at the average player rating coming in vs leaving. 4 Florida Transfers In 6Avg. P.86.83 Transfers Out 5Avg. P.74.40 5-stars 0/0 4-stars 3/1 3-stars 2/4 Adjusted NIL Value $166K$119K
Our (likely) '23/'24 roster: Kublickas (Incoming Fr) 6'1" Clayton (Iona So transfer) 6'2" Pullin (UC Riverside Sr transfer) 6'4" Richard ('22/'23 So) 6'4" Aberdeen (Fr) 6'5" Kugel (Fr) 6'5" Rishwain (USanFran Sr transfer) 6'5" Jarvis (Yale grad transfer) 6'8" Haugh (Incoming Fr) 6'9" Szymczyk (Fr) 6'10" Samuel (Seton Hall Sr transfer) 6'10" Condon (Incoming Fr) 6'11" Handlogten (Marshall Fr transfer) 7'1"
I didn't really forget them, I've just been tracking only our scholarship roster in this thread, but you are correct that I just said roster in the above post. EDIT to add: I hope we have plenty of games that end in the Rowdies cheering for these two to enter the game!
