What would Pelle Larsson do for this Utes team?

One of the players I was most sorry to see leave last year.  Was arguably our most consistent player.  He always had a handful of rebounds, a few assists, and a few baskets, he took care of the ball, and hit most of his free throws.  A solid around contributor with very few poor games.

He’d be contributing more for sure. at the very least he would be another option when Gach/Jenkins/Worster/Battin aren’t getting the job done. He’s big enough to play anything but the 5 at this level… That being said, he isn’t good enough to have really changed the outcome of many games, if any at all.

Overall, I think him leaving was worse for him (in terms of his on court production/development) than it has been for our team.

Ian Martinez is playing terrible basketball at Maryland. Timmy is getting less PT, but is a contributor on a good team, numbers are a little down for him. Rylan is doing well for USU, but he really wasn’t built for Pac12 basketball tbh… and his 3pt shooting is still bad for some reason. Pelle is hardly playing. Jantunen seems to be doing well playing pro ball wherever he is. Good for him.

We were bad with those guys, we are still bad without them. Even if each one had stayed we would still be bad. Timmy would obviously be the biggest help, but he isn’t really that much better than Marco Anthony. Marco’s production is nearly the same while demanding the ball faaaaar less… plus I think Carlson is better off without Allen to crowd the paint.

You can throw Gach into the mix as an example as well. He didn’t do well when he left, he isn’t doing particularly well now either. 

The truth is, we have been severely lacking in player development as well as recruiting for a while now. Carlson has improved across the board, pretty much everyone else is either new to the team or essentially the same player they’ve always been.

If Carlson can put on another 10 pounds this coming offseason he’ll be an even more effective player next year..

We have a bunch of guys on this team that don’t fill any one role particularly well. Worster is a PG that is too slow to really fill that role. Jenkins is our shooter who is too inconsistent to fill that role. Gach is kind good at a few things, but sometimes very bad at all those same things. Battin sucks at everything (he’s somehow gottten worse across the board every year since arriving). Anthony is a superb rebounder, and serviceable defender. Carlson is a stretch big that really isn’t a very good outside shooter yet, and far too frail to dominate inside. Mahorcic has a great basketball mentality, and a great basketball body that fits that mentality, but he is severely limited from a skills standpoint. Thioune is tall and somewhat athletic, still doesn’t really understand basketball obviously. Lazar seems promising but doesn’t seem to contribute in any way other than inefficient scoring at this point.

Honestly I think Mikki is by far the biggest loss of all the transfers, if for no other reason than because he took Battin’s minutes.

Not to mention Timmy Allen who seems to be doing well at Texas.  Sigh.

He was on of the only players last year that could create off the dibble, this team would look much better with a player like that. Transferring to Arizona was a dumb move. He would be starting here