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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Basketball is hard => Topic started by: renocat on June 19, 2017, 03:02:20 PM
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New guy
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Info on the new guy.
Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports
The Kansas State basketball team didn’t spend much time depleted underneath in the wake of forward Bullnuts’s dismissal.
Mawdo Sallah, a graduate transfer, didn’t hesitate to fill the spot, either.
A 6-foot-9 junior forward who spent the last three seasons at Mt. Saint Mary’s, Sallah announced his transfer to Kansas State Monday afternoon on Twitter just four days after Maurice’s dismissal from the team.
Sallah will have two years of college eligibility, beginning immediately.
“I am excited to play at Kansas State University for the next two years,” he wrote.
Sallah, originally from Latri Kunda, Gambia, averaged 6.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game last season for Mt. Saint Mary’s.
His coach there, Jamion Christian, said Sallah is only improving.
“He’s a guy you’ve got to kick out of the gym; a real hunger to improve himself,” Christian said in a phone interview. “Really a high-potential person. Big belief in himself, and a big belief in the team dynamic. He’s really going to make Kansas State basketball better.”
Sallah’s is an unusual path to Kansas State. After announcing his intent to leave Mt. Saint Mary’s in the spring, he then committed to UNC-Wilmington. Complications there freed Sallah, who decided on K-State soon after Maurice’s dismissal opened the door.
Sallah redshirted the 2015-16 season with an injury, which gives him his two years of eligibility.
Tyler Dreiling of KMAN was the first to report. ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reported it as well.
K-State’s newest addition is relatively inexperienced at the sport. Christian said Sallah has only been playing basketball for roughly six years. His desire to improve, though — and his 7-foot-3 wingspan — has driven his success.
“When I say he works hard, I’m talking two to three times in the gym a day — on his own, or with a coach, or with a graduate assistant,” Christian said. “He’s a guy that’s going to get the most out of his ability because of how hard he works.”
As for what sparked Sallah’s interest in K-State, Christian pointed to last year’s NCAA Tournament First Four, when Sallah was able to watch the Wildcats warm up in Dayton, Ohio.
From there, after talking with K-State coach Weber and his staff, and upon Maurice’s dismissal, Sallah pulled the trigger.
“Because of recent developments at Kansas State an opportunity presented itself,” Sallah wrote in his Twitter post. “This time I had to jump on it immediately.”
Sallah will join an inexperienced group of forwards at K-State, among them freshmen Nigel Shadd and Levi Stockard.
Christian said he expects his former player to contribute right away.
“I think as his experience increases, his rebounding will continue to increase,” Christian said. “(K-State is) getting a guy who started every game for us, played 25 minutes a game. They’re really getting a seasoned guy.”
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Good for him. I hope he enjoys Manhattan.
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“He’s a guy you’ve got to kick out of the gym;”
He came to the right place
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Certainly a veteran who isn't young. If oscar loses, youth will not be an available excuse.
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I just watched a video of Mawdo. Comparison to Bullnuts? Bullnuts is like an uncoordinated spastic to this guy.
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Pretty fortuitous timing for everyone involved, other than maurice.
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http://www.ncaa.com/video/basketball-men/2017-03-16/block-mawdo-sallah
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take that unc-wilmington!
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“He’s a guy you’ve got to kick out of the gym;”
He came to the right place
lol
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Bullnuts is like an uncoordinated spastic to this guy.
oscar will coach him up.
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i just love how we mush all the North Carolina schools, first Charlotte, now Wilmington, watch out Duke and UNC, we're coming for you!
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Has heart. Appears to be doing things the kstate way. I see where oscar is going with this.
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This player does not seem cool enough for some posters on this forum.
“He’s a guy you’ve got to kick out of the gym; a real hunger to improve himself,” Christian said in a phone interview. “Really a high-potential person. Big belief in himself, and a big belief in the team dynamic. He’s really going to make Kansas State basketball better.
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Sounds like a good get for Oscar. Should be a top 4 conf finish with at least getting out of the first weekend of the NCAA's as the bare minimum.
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Sounds like a good get for Oscar. Should be a top 4 conf finish with at least getting out of the first weekend of the NCAA's as the bare minimum.
oscar hasn't been out of the first weekend in 12 years and counting. He will never be there again. He should be writing thank you notes to Self daily for letting him parlay his talent into millions of dollars for being a complete loser and shitty coach.
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Sounds like a good get for Oscar. Should be a top 4 conf finish with at least getting out of the first weekend of the NCAA's as the bare minimum.
oscar hasn't been out of the first weekend in 12 years and counting. He will never be there again. He should be writing thank you notes to Self daily for letting him parlay his talent into millions of dollars for being a complete loser and shitty coach.
#LIFE. he did it at Southern Illinois before that you dumbfuck. I understand the hate, but don't be a giant dumbass.
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Sounds like a good get for Oscar. Should be a top 4 conf finish with at least getting out of the first weekend of the NCAA's as the bare minimum.
oscar hasn't been out of the first weekend in 12 years and counting. He will never be there again. He should be writing thank you notes to Self daily for letting him parlay his talent into millions of dollars for being a complete loser and shitty coach.
#LIFE. he did it at Southern Illinois before that you dumbfuck. I understand the hate, but don't be a giant dumbass.
Yeah, he's been to the 2nd weekend a whole 3 times in 19 years as a head coach, 2 of those with Bill Self's stockpile, and not once in the past 12 years. Man, what a hall of famer. We are so #blessed to have this living legend here.
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Sounds like a good get for Oscar. Should be a top 4 conf finish with at least getting out of the first weekend of the NCAA's as the bare minimum.
oscar hasn't been out of the first weekend in 12 years and counting. He will never be there again. He should be writing thank you notes to Self daily for letting him parlay his talent into millions of dollars for being a complete loser and shitty coach.
#LIFE. he did it at Southern Illinois before that you dumbfuck. I understand the hate, but don't be a giant dumbass.
Yeah, he's been to the 2nd weekend a whole 3 times in 19 years as a head coach, 2 of those with Bill Self's stockpile, and not once in the past 12 years. Man, what a hall of famer. We are so #blessed to have this living legend here.
Look at dumbass #LIFE calling the sweet 16 the "second weekend" so it doesn't sound like a big deal. lol OMFG. :lol:
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Yeah, we're calling him a HOF'r. Jesus.
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Life, Frank made it to the "2nd weekend " one time here. It's kinda hard.
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Life, Frank made it to the "2nd weekend " one time here. It's kinda hard.
Come on man, Frank took a sinking ship at South Carolina and had it in the Final 4 in year 5. oscar would never take a team that bad and have them in the FF by year 5. It just isn't possible.
Frank had the Cats in the dance 4 of 5 seasons, after helping to create a stud team as a KSU asst. oscar has had us in 3 of 5 years, after inheriting a stud Frank team. Frank took us to the Elite 8, oscar takes us to the brink of embarrassment on national television in March (see the LaSalle game in 2013).
Getting to the 2nd weekend is hard, but one of those two is obviously better at getting there and it is not our guy oscar.
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Comparing oscar to Frank is absolutely silly at this point. Comparing their tournament success is absolutely stupid.
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#blessed