He failed the Golden Rule.
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When do we start the Caden Purdue updates?
Next season. Caden will promote his own brand of earrings: “Pierced by Pierce.”
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There is money to be made.!!
The nice thing about watching Lee this season and Pierce next season is that it feels good when they win. But if they lose… whatever. No biggie. That’s some other team.
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Xaivian had an amazing season. He played at a very high level on a great team. I don’t know if he gets drafted in the NBA but he did the Ivy League proud. He proved he could play at the highest level of college basketball under incredible pressure. Look at the racist comments Florida fans were saying early on. It was disgraceful. Xaivian had to turn off his social media accounts. We were so lucky to see him play. I’m just sorry I don’t get to see him play any more college games.
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And he got 6 million buckaroos, so he’s good. No princeton degree though.
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Amazing? Calm down.
If he could have made, say, 4-5M on a team that put the ball in his hands, that would have been the best option.
He visited and Kansas and St. John’s too and I think both would have been better fits than Florida. With 3 elite bigs and another ball-dominant PG, Xaivian never got a chance to play his game with the Gators.
Even on that last play, he probably wanted to take the shot himself, but as the #4 option on the court, he just tried to execute whatever play was called in the huddle.
If that was a play call it was a terrible one. He should have gone right to the hoop to either try to score or get fouled. Was no time for wrap around pass shenanigans. I’d be curious to see if coaches mention if that was play call. Could just as likely been a bad executive decision by Lee.
Can’t blame him for getting a heck of a pay day, but in hindsight this looks like a poor decision for his bigger basketball aspirations. Similar to Dingle, I think Lee would have been better off putting up big stats in Ivy League. Alternately picking a team that needed more of his skills overall instead of being another cog in a machine.
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Xaivian had to prove that he belonged and he did. Putting up numbers in the Ivy League only gets you so far. Think of Matt Morgan at Cornell or Dingle and Penn. Getting the degree at Princeton would have been great but at the end of the day these guys are basketball players first who want to play at the highest level. He was not just a cog in the wheel at Florida. He was the starting point guard and the coach gave him the ball to win the game in the NCAA tournament. If he had stayed at Princeton he would have played a lot more hero ball and not showed how versatile he actually is on a team with elite talent.
Playing only in the Ivy League got Yale’s two starting guards from last year to the NBA. I don’t know what sorts of careers Poulikidas and Mbeng will have in the NBA but they got a great education and the space to develop their basketball talents too.
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Watched the video several times. Xaivian was double teamed the entire trip, and Iowa had a defender parked at the hoop defending no one. So when Xaivian arrived he was triple teamed. The play was doomed.
Question: how did Florida allow a wide open three pointer to Iowa on the prior play?
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Clearly Todd Golden watched the end of the Penn-Yale game and thought, “That’s how you do it.”
At least Lee got millions of dollars and the chance to play a major role on a national championship contender.
Jordan Dingle’s decision to leave Penn will go down as one of the dumbest decisions in the recent history of the transfer portal. If he had stayed, he would have put up dominant numbers while being asked to play no defense and likely would have gotten an NBA Summer League invite at a bare minimum.
Instead, he chose to play for a notorious snake oil salesman and serial liar of a coach who promised him he’d become an NBA first round pick, then recruited over/alongside him within a matter ofdays. Dingle got exposed defensively, saw his role reduced over time and never got to play a minute of postseason basketball. Dingle’s professional career now consists of him posting videos of himself dunking at a local high school on Instagram.
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They went to try and steal the outlet pass and missed, which left Iowa in a 2 on 1. When the defender came out to meet the dribbler, the pass went to the wide open man in the corner. Florida needed to get back on defense and make sure Iowa couldn’t get an easy 3.
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I believe he is playing in Serbia. And you can’t blame Pitino when Dingle took the cash. He did start early in the season and simply did not play well enough at that level. Pitino was playing NIL ball–it’s professional. If you don’t do the job, you sit.
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He isnt playing anywhere this season. I heard at tournament that he had a good deal to play in canary islands in spanish league but flunked the physical. ive heard that story before about European teams
Meanwhile St. Johns/Pitino ran a perfect play against Kansas after the coach told Darling “Do something”.
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