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Impact of Josh Fortune’s Transfer
The news came down late Friday afternoon before Memorial Day Weekend and was a big shock to me when I saw it but Josh Fortune is in fact transferring from Providence College.
While some Friar fans are brushing off the news, this cannot be seen as anything but bad for an already thin backcourt for Ed Cooley’s 2014-15 squad. While I agree with people who say Fortune isn’t an irreplaceable player in terms of skill set, when you look at losing him in the context of the current roster situation, he’s pretty damn irreplaceable. Right now, PC has the following guards on the roster:
- Kris Dunn
- Kyron Cartwright
- Junior Lomomba
- Casey Woodring
So just to recap the above – there is a point guard coming off a 2nd shoulder surgery who will not be rushed back, an incoming freshman backup point guard who was previously committed to Loyola Marymount and is ranked around the 45th point guard in the class of 2014, a transfer from Cleveland State who sat out last season and has a reputation as a defensive specialist and rim slasher and a walk on who saw a total of 10 minutes last season all in garbage time.
Losing Bryce Cotton and Kadeem Batts was tough enough but now the Friars are losing another player who averaged over 30 minutes per game in Fortune. Ed Cooley will now have to replace 103.5 minutes per game out of 200 from last season. PC will only have 3 players returning who played meaningful minutes last season in Henton, Harris and Desrosiers.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 5/27/14
- ICYMI – Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – PC’s Josh Fortune to transfer
- College Basketball Talk – Scott Phillips – Washington State decommit Tramaine Isabell down to a few schools
- Some PC hockey news:
- New mixtape from Next Best Basketball of 2015 PC target Dupree McBrayer from this weekend who recently reclassified from ’14 to ’15 and will go to prep school:
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#pcbb Links of the Day 5/19/14
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – College Basketball Journal: Newcomers raise talent level for PC, URI
- FriarBasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Cotton’s Top 10 Games: #5 OT vs. BC
- Providence Journal – Amanda Milkovits – Autism activist Temple Grandin exhorts PC graduates: “Get some real stuff done!”
- Hoopalytics – The Greek God of Being in the Right Place
- Hockey’sFuture – Brian Jung – Bright future apparent after strong 2013-14 season for Calgary Flames prospects
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#pcbb Links of the Day 5/16/14
- Friars.com – Men’s Hockey Forward Drew Brown Battling Cancer
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#pcbb Links of the Day 5/12/14
- ICYMI – 2014 PG recruit Larry Austin Committed to Xavier Saturday
- Zagsblog.com – Adam Zagoria – Donovan Mitchell Plans Summer Visits
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Bryce Cotton to Work Out for NBA Teams This Week
Bryce Cotton has been working out constantly in Alumni Hall both with God Shammgod and against chairs.
He will begin working out for NBA teams over the next 6 weeks leading up to the NBA Draft in the hopes of hearing his name called. The Providence Journal‘s Kevin McNamara is reporting that Cotton will have his first 2 workouts this week when he will travel to Utah on Wednesday and Sacramento on Friday.
Utah has a bunch of young guards including Trey Burke and no coach at the moment but of their bevy of young guards only Burke, Diante Garrett and John Lucas III are point guards. Garrett is Burke’s backup but has a non-guaranteed salary heading into this upcoming season and Cotton could come in and compete for the backup job in Utah because Lucas III didn’t get off the bench in April for the Jazz and is on the wrong side of 30 for a rebuilding team. To top that all off, he has a non-guaranteed contract for next season so it wouldn’t be surprising if Cotton was brought in to try to win the backup role behind Burke if the Jazz don’t take a point guard in the 1st round. ESPN’s Chad Ford has the Jazz taking Kansas C Joel Embiid with the 4th overall pick and Louisiana-Lafayette PG Elfrid Payton with the 23rd overall pick. In addition to Cotton, the Jazz will host Taylor Braun, Stephen Holt, Akil Mitchell, Mike Moser, and Ronald Roberts Jr.
Sacramento has 5’9 Isaiah Thomas as their starting point guard so I guess they aren’t afraid to give a smaller guard a chance but I’m also unsure how Cotton fits here unless Thomas leaves as a restricted free agent this summer in which case Cotton could come in to backup 2nd year player Ray McCallum. Chad Ford’s latest mock draft has the Kings taking Oklahoma State PG Marcus Smart with the 7th overall pick so this may just be a way of posturing to lower Thomas’ asking price as a restricted free agent.
The NBA Draft lottery is May 20th and the NBA Draft is June 26th.
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