2023-2024 Arizona Basketball

[dovecanyoncat]

Welp, that just happened.

[RondaeShimmy]

Good luck

[dmjcat]

Good luck

I wish him all the best but without an outside shot and limited mobility I believe his best chances will be in Europe.

[84Cat]

Well that should open up 2 scholarships since I assume that Tautvilas is gone too. Hopefully Veesaar is ready to fill some big shoes

[dovecanyoncat]

Well that should open up 2 scholarships since I assume that Tautvilas is gone too. Hopefully Veesaar is ready to fill some big shoes

He doesn't appear to have Zu's hands and quick instinctive turn to the basket.

[CardiacCats97]

Well … shit

[PHXCATS]

Was hoping he would come back but things will be fine next year. Lloyd has proven to make it work no matter who leaves and I expect the team to be much better defensively

[TheCatInTheHat]

Well that should open up 2 scholarships since I assume that Tautvilas is gone too. Hopefully Veesaar is ready to fill some big shoes

At the moment, that appears to be the only logical option, but geez. I recognize that we'll probably get two or three portal transfers in, but we are officially very short-handed right now.

[arizonawildcats]

All Tommy's guys moving forward. Hopefully we get some commitment news soon.

[RondaeShimmy]

Hopefully the Tennessee big commits now

[MountainCat]

Hopefully the Tennessee big commits now

That's what I was thinking. Opens up room and eliminates those concerned about playing time if Zu was there. May be good timing on this actually. At least we know...

[84Cat]

Zags or us

[LuteIsGod]

Well that should open up 2 scholarships since I assume that Tautvilas is gone too. Hopefully Veesaar is ready to fill some big shoes

I loved Zu as a Freshman. I feel that his desire to play defense declined every year that he played. I would have loved to have him back as a way to see if Tommy can motivate/coach a very good player to fix or improve upon his limitations.

Why wouldn’t another big want to come in and simply condition themselves to run the floor and get easy buckets? Tommy’s style is so much fun to watch

[pc in NM]

Well that should open up 2 scholarships since I assume that Tautvilas is gone too. Hopefully Veesaar is ready to fill some big shoes

And, IMNSHO, I hope fans, especially around here, have the patience to deal with his learning curve, and the “Bear Down” attitude to give him enthusiastic support!!

I’m pessimistic on this, but always a cockeyed optimist!!

[IndianaZonaFan]

Hope we hear some news this week. I feel like Throne Biggums waiting on some news to drop about us and the portal regarding a wing and or forward

[Merkin]

About 4 1/2 how from me, but Thanksgiving day will be hard. Sorry sons.

Take them with you. A Merkin family road trip. You can all wear jorts.

No more jorts since becoming a senior. It's all cargo shorts now since I need four pockets, wallet, keys, cell phone ,cheater glasses. I retired 4/30/2020 and have worn cargo shorts every day since! If you see a big tall goofy old man wearing cargo shorts in Palm Springs it may not be me, that is our uniform.

[dovecanyoncat]

About 4 1/2 how from me, but Thanksgiving day will be hard. Sorry sons.

Take them with you. A Merkin family road trip. You can all wear jorts.

No more jorts since becoming a senior. It's all cargo shorts now since I need four pockets, wallet, keys, cell phone ,cheater glasses. I retired 4/30/2020 and have worn cargo shorts every day since! If you see a big tall goofy old man wearing cargo shorts in Palm Springs it may not be me, that is our uniform.

Yo Merk, when was the last time you wore a belt? For my part in the thought experiment I'm thinking back and drawing blank. I had to wear a belt to do forestry work, but that ended in '13. Fuck those things.

[EastCoastCat]

Ha Merk. I get what your saying although not retired yet.

Makes me think of last time wearing a tie. Right now only for funerals and weddings.

[U.P. Zona Fan]

About 4 1/2 how from me, but Thanksgiving day will be hard. Sorry sons.

Take them with you. A Merkin family road trip. You can all wear jorts.

No more jorts since becoming a senior. It's all cargo shorts now since I need four pockets, wallet, keys, cell phone ,cheater glasses. I retired 4/30/2020 and have worn cargo shorts every day since! If you see a big tall goofy old man wearing cargo shorts in Palm Springs it may not be me, that is our uniform.

Yo Merk, when was the last time you wore a belt? For my part in the thought experiment I'm thinking back and drawing blank. I had to wear a belt to do forestry work, but that ended in '13. Fuck those things.

I still have to wear a belt cause my butt cheeks aren't big enough to keep up my 30" waistband.

I've resorted to wearing my EMS jump pants for work most of the time cause of the little sticky strips in the band that keep em from falling down. Also lots of pockets!! Pens, that wrench you always need, phone, note pad, meds. I gotta carry around a lot of stuff these days.

[Merkin]

I have a flat but too, and have to wear a belt. I can wear gym shorts, if I don't carry anything in the pockets, but if I go out, the cargo shorts with belt go on.

[84Cat]

About 4 1/2 how from me, but Thanksgiving day will be hard. Sorry sons.

Take them with you. A Merkin family road trip. You can all wear jorts.

No more jorts since becoming a senior. It's all cargo shorts now since I need four pockets, wallet, keys, cell phone ,cheater glasses. I retired 4/30/2020 and have worn cargo shorts every day since! If you see a big tall goofy old man wearing cargo shorts in Palm Springs it may not be me, that is our uniform.

Yo Merk, when was the last time you wore a belt? For my part in the thought experiment I'm thinking back and drawing blank. I had to wear a belt to do forestry work, but that ended in '13. Fuck those things.

I still have to wear a belt cause my butt cheeks aren't big enough to keep up my 30" waistband

Same although I have a plump 31" inch waist. I need to wear a belt on everything unless it has an elastic waistband like sweats

[dovecanyoncat]

Take them with you. A Merkin family road trip. You can all wear jorts.

No more jorts since becoming a senior. It's all cargo shorts now since I need four pockets, wallet, keys, cell phone ,cheater glasses. I retired 4/30/2020 and have worn cargo shorts every day since! If you see a big tall goofy old man wearing cargo shorts in Palm Springs it may not be me, that is our uniform.

Yo Merk, when was the last time you wore a belt? For my part in the thought experiment I'm thinking back and drawing blank. I had to wear a belt to do forestry work, but that ended in '13. Fuck those things.

I still have to wear a belt cause my butt cheeks aren't big enough to keep up my 30" waistband

Same although I have a plump 31" inch waist. I need to wear a belt on everything unless it has an elastic waistband like sweats

Y'all are just jealous of my booty. Thanks to the elliptical machine it's real and it's magnificent.

[CardiacCats97]

This was quite the threadjack.

[84Cat]

This was quite the threadjack.

It's the off season and we don't have anything to talk about. Come on Tommy, give us a reason to talk about Arizona BB

[CardiacCats97]

This was quite the threadjack.

It's the off season and we don't have anything to talk about. Come on Tommy, give us a reason to talk about Arizona BB

Yes, dear god please save us from this old man ass convo.

[Alieberman]

I bet Kerr wears jorts

[dovecanyoncat]

This was quite the threadjack.

It's the off season and we don't have anything to talk about. Come on Tommy, give us a reason to talk about Arizona BB

Yes, dear god please save us from this old man ass convo.

So jealous. You're obsessed with it. Apologize!

[azgreg]

I have a flat but too, and have to wear a belt. I can wear gym shorts, if I don't carry anything in the pockets, but if I go out, the cargo shorts with belt go on.

You're a complicated man Merk.

[arizonawildcats]

[Merkin]

UAE has never fought a war with Israel. Not sure why they needed peace accords, but that's a discussion for the lower boards.

I have a flat but too, and have to wear a belt. I can wear gym shorts, if I don't carry anything in the pockets, but if I go out, the cargo shorts with belt go on.

You're a complicated man Merk.

Wearing cargo shorts is the mandatory uniform for old retired white dudes where I live.

[dovecanyoncat]

UAE has never fought a war with Israel. Not sure why they needed peace accords, but that's a discussion for the lower boards.

I have a flat but too, and have to wear a belt. I can wear gym shorts, if I don't carry anything in the pockets, but if I go out, the cargo shorts with belt go on.

You're a complicated man Merk.

Wearing cargo shorts is the mandatory uniform for old retired white dudes where I live.

So, fashion plate Merk, tell me about your sock ensemble: anklets; above-the-ankle; knee-high old fart length; white only or geriatric brown pressure hose?

[Merkin]

100% white socks folded over. I have a pair of dark socks I wore to my daughter's wedding 8 years ago but only looked at them since.



although if I had my druthers would still be sporting these like I did in the 1980s

[84Cat]

Damn, I'm completely out of style. No cargo shorts, no white socks.

[Beachcat97]

I have a flat but too, and have to wear a belt. I can wear gym shorts, if I don't carry anything in the pockets, but if I go out, the cargo shorts with belt go on.

You're a complicated man Merk.

Merk is on this board's Mt. Rushmore.

[pc in NM]

Anytime over 60°, I wear ankle socks under low cut hiking shoes for birding...

All other times sandals w/o socks - since old man's feet evolved, sandals cover the toes ..

[dovecanyoncat]

100% white socks folded over. I have a pair of dark socks I wore to my daughter's wedding 8 years ago but only looked at them since.



although if I had my druthers would still be sporting these like I did in the 1980s

I had to ask. I need a fashion role model.

[dovecanyoncat]

I have a flat but too, and have to wear a belt. I can wear gym shorts, if I don't carry anything in the pockets, but if I go out, the cargo shorts with belt go on.

You're a complicated man Merk.

Merk is on this board's Mt. Rushmore.

West coast Boomer casual-cool.

[RichardCranium]

Anytime over 60°, I wear ankle socks under low cut hiking shoes for birding...

All other times sandals w/o socks - since old man's feet evolved, sandals cover the toes ..

SWMBO was wearing those exact sandals on our recent vacation darn near every day. Blew out the soles on the third last day but decided to wear them the next day on the Whale Shark Swim boat (flop, flop, flop, flop) on the second last day. She left them in the room for distribution to local opshop. The boat's captain suggested that the OpShop would repair them easily enough (shoe-goo is all they needed) and SWMBO didn't really want to pack them and bring them back anyway.

Cap said they really had a difficult time with internet ordering there (Exmouth Western Australia) that its really tough to get stuff that comes with the correct size.

[Postmaster]

Well everything is upside down there.

[arizonawildcats]

The Arizona Wildcats appear possible to take an exhibition swing through Israel this August, their first foreign tour since 2017.

Arizona is tentatively planning to go at least to Israel as of now, after a report on Twitter on Thursday said that UA and Kansas State would be playing in Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

College teams are eligible to take foreign tours every four years, meaning UA has been able to since UA coach Tommy Lloyd was hired in 2021, but Lloyd has expressed reservations about taking a foreign tour because his many international players have national team commitments over the summer.

Last summer, UA guards Kerr Kriisa (Estonia) and Pelle Larsson (Sweden) spent large chunks of the summer playing for their national teams, while center Oumar Ballo also trained with the Mali national team that ultimately did not play FIBA World Cup qualifying games out of protest. But the Wildcats do not have any national team commitments during that time this summer.

Arizona last took a foreign trip to Spain in August 2017, just over a month before the FBI announced its investigation into college basketball. The Wildcats played just two games -- beating teams in Valencia and Mataro -- before canceling a third game after a terrorist attack struck a crowded area just five blocks away from where the Wildcats were staying in Barcelona.

The August timing this year will allow the Wildcats to firm up their 2023-24 roster, which still has five openings as of now. Arizona has eight players expected on its roster for next season, unless Azuolas Tubelis comes back from the NBA Draft pool, and typically aims to get all of its players on campus by July for offseason workouts.

A foreign exhibition tour would also allow UA to hold 10 full practices in July and August before leaving.

Among the familiar faces UA's Pelle Larsson is scheduled to see at the G League Elite Camp later this month in Chicago: Tiger Campbell of UCLA, Tristan da Silva of Colorado, Drew Peterson of USC and Tosan Evbuomwan of Princeton.

The NBA released the full list of 45 G League Elite Camp invitees on Friday. The camp, essentially a combine for G League and fringe NBA Draft prospects, will be held May 13-14 at Chicago's Wintrust Arena, before the NBA Combine later that week.

UA forward Azuolas Tubelis is expected to be invited to the NBA Combine, but an official list of players has not been released yet.

[IndianaZonaFan]

Important dates:

May 11: last day for basketball players to enter portal.

May 31: last day to withdraw from draft and return to school.

[IndianaZonaFan]

Want

[TucsonCat]

Want

Watched this kid live, at the Arizona-Wazzu game in Pullman. Raw as heck, offensively, but my God that wingspan!! I swear it felt that he could block every shot in the gym, even when he was standing a body-length away from the shooters. Freakish ability. If he ever develops a shot, he is going to be an absolute monster!

[Merkin]

As much as I like them, Ballo and Zu are not rim protectors. Cats could really use one. I think Veesaar might turn out to be a decent low post defender if can get some strength and not get pushed around. Anderson too for that matter.

[arizonawildcats]

[dmjcat]

[CardiacCats97]

Sweet! Now it’s time to take that next step Pelle.

[dovecanyoncat]

He looks so much bigger in that pic than he does on the court. Context is everything.

[Beachcat97]

Hell yes, Pelle!!!

Starting to like our roster for next season.

[Merkin]

Looks like he has been working out. Which he needed.