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I think for one season he would be the top guy. Maybe two years of the other guys would be a better plan. I think Mason is considered the best player in the NAIA. As a sophomore he held his own against a 7 footer named EJ Onu from Shawnee State. EJ has played the last several years in the G League and received serious draft consideration. Last years NAIA national champion had guys transfer to Ole Miss and Marquette. Hard to judge where exactly Mason falls but the last couple of years the top NAIA players have been able to play at a pretty high level.

And with how the season ended I think Sather earned a short term extension. Hopefully we can come out a net positive from the portal this year.

Hypothetically if Walters, Moni, and Thompson all end up in the portal, I would think both schools would be interested in all 3. List would go Walters, Thompson, Moni?

Jacksen Moni from Northern State would be a good pickup if he were to enter the portal. His 3 point % took a dip this year which could be a concern

He wasn’t on the hot seat when he was something like 2-23 in a 25 game conference stretch? In all seriousness I don’t care if Paul Sather or Santa Claus is the head coach. We’ve finished 6th, 5th , 10th, and 9th in the conference the last 4 years. Those results in an average to probably below average conference are not good. Maybe next year is the year we make a huge jump. Seems like there will be a lot of turnover in teams rosters next year. I’m sure the SU’s, ORU, and St Thomas will be at the top. I will be disappointed if we are not amongst that group. As always I will be at most home games and look forward to traveling to a handful of away games. I’m already looking forward to going down to Lincoln once again!

He’s got all the physical tools to play in the nba. Just needs to fine tune a few things. Needs to become much more of a consistent shooter and needs another 15 pounds. He’ll go to the combine, if he performs well he’ll keep his name in the draft.

I guess you’d have to go to Bisonville and see if their season was acceptable. I’m just happy ORU won

I’m not sure what him being preseason all summit has to do with him stepping into a new role. I can assure you it is not easy going from 3rd or 4th option to the go to guy. As talented as Nelson is, he had an up and down start to the season. I can assure you it’s hard to go from role playing bench player to the go to guard like Skunberg had to. I can assure you it’s hard to go from getting limited minutes as a freshman to playing extended minutes as a big man as Morgan did. I’m not even sure what you’re trying to argue. If you think making those adjustments is easy as a player you must have been a heck of a college player yourself

Not sure what you’re trying to say?

It’s the off-season. Relax. Plenty of time till next October

I don’t necessarily follow NAIA basketball unless I know someone on a team. I happen to have a good relationship with Mason Walters. The GPAC is considered by everyone one of the top NAIA conferences and it’s not even debatable. @ZDosch had a lazy take and @UND1983 is just being arrogant

Just form an educated take. Its not that hard

What fact did you present? The GPAC is one of five conferences with 5 teams in the NAIA national tournament. Jamestown has tried to schedule UND the last couple of years. UND would rather play Presentation and Waldorf. Those are facts. If you have any questions PM me. Have a good night

Whatever makes you feel better. The GPAC is not an awful NAIA conference and D1 teams will not schedule them. I know for a fact Jamestown has been looking the last couple of years for D1 games. More specifically they have tried to schedule UND and have been turned down.

One of five conferences that got 5 teams into the national tournament. So on a "down" year still just as good as any other conference at the NAIA level. No idea where @ZDosch is getting awful from.

Why do you think UND and NDSU schedule Presentation and Waldorf and not Jamestown, Northwestern, Morningside, etc?

They got 5 teams into the national tournament. May not have the best team in the country but top to bottom could be best conference in NAIA

GPAC is a solid NAIA conference. The North Star which Mayville plays in is AWFUL. Shawnee State which beat Jamestown a couple of years ago in the elite 8 was a very good team. They would’ve more than held their own in the Summit League this year

The thing is this is the first year Nelson has been asked to be the man. That’s a huge jump from 3rd or 4th option to being the go to guy. (I’ve said Nelson is a potential NBA guy since I first saw him his senior year in high school). Skunberg was a role playing guy off the bench. That’s a huge jump to being the #2 option and being the go to guard. Morgan had talent but was limited in minutes last year due to the players in front of him. This wasn’t 3 players that have proven to be all conference level players. Either Richman has done a hell of a coaching job or the summit league is awful this year. Could be a combination of both

Maybe it was 80% of their minutes from last year. They returned one starter. Lost 4 players to other D1 schools in the portal and graduated another that was 1st team all conference. I hope UND can get to a point where we lose that much in an offseason and can still contend to go to the big dance

I can tell you Hong does not miss in warmups. Dude is money

NDSU is going to be playing in the summit league championship after losing something ridiculous like 80% of their scoring from last year. Quick rebuild

Wasn’t BJ offered by St Thomas out of high school? Would be a bad look to lose another player to an in conference team. How many other in conference transfers have there been the last few years? Only thing that comes to mind is Harden-Hayes committing to Kansas City before their coach got fired

Brady played hard. Brady struggled guarding the ball. Brady excelled in team defense. Excellent weak side defender. Brooks has much more upside in being an on ball defender. I do not think it’s controversial to say that.

With the way people are talking, are we just assuming Omot is gone at this point?