One of these three should redshirt: Nunge, Kreiner and/or Pemsl. The front court is way too crowded.
Kreiner I think has huge potential. He has range, size and good handles. He will be a beast as a senior(and this year at 260lbs). And even more so as a 5th year.
Pemsl is a question mark. He isn't the same player he was as a freshman, when he lead the league in FG percentage. That was impressive. But he isn't 252lbs anymore. And he FINALLY has a year/summer where he isn't battling injury or illness. What has that been 5-6 years?!? At 226lbs, he will be a different player. Can he develop the range needed to play more? A redshirt year would help. But I am thinking he will want to play with this new body that he has.
Nunge has my leading vote to redshirt. The reason being is that IF he were to redshirt, he would be the only one of our large sum of bigs we have on this roster left as a senior. That would be HUGE for both Jack & the Hawks. The front court would be his. And he will be good. But able to play a LOT more minutes.... And as a 5th year senior, he would be that much better.
Plus he'll have an extra year to play with Joe, Patrick & DJ.
Kreiner I think has huge potential. He has range, size and good handles. He will be a beast as a senior(and this year at 260lbs). And even more so as a 5th year.
Pemsl is a question mark. He isn't the same player he was as a freshman, when he lead the league in FG percentage. That was impressive. But he isn't 252lbs anymore. And he FINALLY has a year/summer where he isn't battling injury or illness. What has that been 5-6 years?!? At 226lbs, he will be a different player. Can he develop the range needed to play more? A redshirt year would help. But I am thinking he will want to play with this new body that he has.
Nunge has my leading vote to redshirt. The reason being is that IF he were to redshirt, he would be the only one of our large sum of bigs we have on this roster left as a senior. That would be HUGE for both Jack & the Hawks. The front court would be his. And he will be good. But able to play a LOT more minutes.... And as a 5th year senior, he would be that much better.
Plus he'll have an extra year to play with Joe, Patrick & DJ.
I would expect the vets to get the nod as starters early on and we will get a mix of different kinds of line-ups during the early games that feature the inexperienced in a variety of different positions.
By league play I would guess it's J Bo, Moss, Joe, Cook, and Garza. Daily and Conner could well end up as two of the first players off the bench. If we get smaller at the three, minutes for Baer, Nunge, and Pemsl are very difficult to find. If Kriener establishes himself as Luka's back up it might be smart for Nunge to use a red shirt year. The same could be said for Pemsl, but I doubt he'd buy into it. IMO Nunge has more potential and would benefit himself and the Hawks if he did redshirt. I doubt it happens.
I can't see Joe not starting when the games really matter.