Originally published at: Hoops Portal Tracker: Keep Up with Oklahoma State’s Moves in the Transfer Portal
The portal officially opens April 7.
Sure seems like a younger PG would be helpful and then an Andre Williams type to defend the paint and clean the glass. And wish HCSL would use his guards to rebound more (can’t get out fast and create havoc if you can’t rebound).
oSu
Agree on a pg, and I think Clary with his experience would be a great keep. Need some post presence too, combination of Mille, Ahmed, and Ragland to go with a portal addition or two.
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Is that correct? Auburn just beat Tulsa for the NIT? Is it a moral victory that when healthy, oSu beat Auburn this season? 
Any takers?
oSu
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It’s a moral victory on the same level as me harboring some personal satisfaction that one time back in the 80’s I successfully dished a no-look pass to a guy flashing down the post in the Colvin center during a game with the really good dudes on the really good dude court where occasionally Corey Williams and Darwyn Alexander played. They weren’t there that day but they had been seen there.
Victory!
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Sorta need, for better or worse, to keep those last 7 for continuity. Three frosh incoming (hope they arrive in summer) and now 5 to fill.
Awwww drat… never expected Jennings to leave.
oSu
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Yeah I was hoping Jennings would stay.
BTW, I like the picture of Lutz that accompanies this article. He’s checking off the players still here and the ones gone. He’s like…”yeah that one’s gonna leave a mark”.
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Vukovic gone too? Basically no continuity - start from scratch.
The portal is just awesome isn’t it.
Which is why I can’t get behind the “Lutz has improved the record both years” logic. He’s going to have to figure out how to establish the culture and get the team functioning in one season. He can’t wait to make adjustments in the offseason. Adjustments need to be made midseason. Potential has to be realized within months, not seasons. It’s a new world.
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I don’t see it as a moral victory anymore, what I see is that Auburn improved over the season and we did not.
Saying OSU beat the future NIT champion in basketball is like saying OSU football beat the future Poinsettia bowl winner….
Who is/are the, it’s the last few seconds and X or Y will take the shot, person/people? Any pure shooters?
Vuc was a project and didn’t seem to be paying off, IMO. I don’t know how many guys were told to leave but I don’t see him as a big loss. I agree it seemed we didn’t make a lot of game time adjustments and don’t know if our poor half court play was due to coaching or players ignoring coaches. Either way it’s not good. Looks like he’s got players this season. Trying to be positive.
I can’t go that far because there hasn’t been much to be positive about in Oklahoma State basketball in the last 20 years. Underwood, Cunningham, some isolated big wins… but none of them changed the course of the program or led to much postseason success.
I’m not out on Lutz, so my comment is more that this is a make-or-break year and what he needs to achieve for it to be a make. He might survive next season if it’s another clunker, but I think he’ll be a lame duck coach that no one believes in just waiting out donor fatigue and embarrassment a la Boynton and Ford. If he makes the tourney next year, that’ll at least lay a foundation of hope and good will.
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Hadn’t seen this one…
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I agree that if we still have mediocre results with group coming in then Lutz shouldn’t have contract renewed. I’m as frustrated as anyone.
Here was my depressing thought. I’ll bet if you gave the average OSU basketball fan a blind résumé of Travis Ford and said you could have a coach with tournament berths in the next 5-of-8 years, finishing right in the middle of the conference most years, they’d either take it or at least consider it. The standard, excitement, and expectation for this team has bottomed out and it sucks.