The Georgia Bulldogs got some big basketball news yesterday when guard Noah Thomasson committed to play for them in the coming season. The guy is a straight up bucket, averaging 19.5 points per game last season while shooting 38.6% from three. He's a high quality scorer and will slot right into their starting lineup for 2023-24. However, this also comes right on the heels of Blue Cain, a four star shooting guard in the class of 2023, committing to the Bulldogs last week. It brings up a larger question about roster building in the transfer portal era that I wanted to briefly dive into here. For most of the 2010s, the ideal roster building strategy at the highest level of college basketball was to load up on 5 star talent and hope that you had the guys who would acclimate the quickest. John Calipari's Kentucky teams early in the decade set the standard, stockpiling 5 stars en route to a national championship and three additional trip to the Final Four between 2011 and 2015. They ...
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