Flying Dutchmen Fans

HUSID74 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 2:59 pm

Wags wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 2:55 pm

HUSID74 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 2:23 pm We signed a BIG! Victor Onueto

Actually, Victory Onuetu, which explains this:

dutchPride86 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 1:39 pm Fun cryptic tweet here. Did they actually sign a big or book a non conference D1 home game? Either warrants that reaction at this point. Lol

https://x.com/HofstraMBB/status/1958583 ... 9Fl1Q&s=19

At least his first name is a good omen and can potentially set up some good headlines like "Victory Leads Hofstra to Win."

I don't care if its Victor or Victory as long as he can PLAY!

Hopefully. At least it gives them some size. And he's older - will turn 22 (on March 15) just before Hofstra plays in the NCAA tourney (see what I did there?).

Some stats:
https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Vi ... ary/205190

Looks like he didn't play in 2023-24. Wonder if he was hurt then and if so, how? He was with two teams in 2024-25. Looks like he didn't do much in 2022-23 or in the higher league he was in during 2024-25 before putting up some good numbers in limited time (9.0 pts, 5.0 reb, 0.5 blk in 15.3 mins) with a new team in a lower league in Spain.

He had a 30 &15 game on 13/17 fg) in just 22 minutes in April:
https://www.proballers.com/basketball/g ... 2025-04-12

Moves pretty well for a 6'11" dude. adds a little juice to the season outlook, if healthy.

Ok I will be the first to say it
"Victory is ours"!

Ahhhhh! I feel much better now

So he hasn't played for any U.S. college before? Very unusual signing.

How did they come up with 2 years of eligibility for him?

JoeyBagODonuts1 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 9:49 pm How did they come up with 2 years of eligibility for him?

Maybe his age and/or the games he played in Europe reduced his eligibility?

Anyway, here's some video of Victory. Very active under the glass. Good offensive rebounder and can make his FTs:

https://youtu.be/7YXykvgiyJ4

You may want to turn down the audio.

He was playing mostly against smaller defenders but he clearly has ability. Good hands! Uses both hands. Looks agile.
He could really make a difference. Maybe make Sunday a better player in the process.
Looks like a great find! Who found him?

So what's our new projected depth chart (with likely the full roster in place now)?

G - Cruz
G - Carlos Lopez
G/F - German
G/F - Biggie Patterson
C - Victory

Bench:
G - Edmead
G - Jaeden Roberts
F - DeCady
C - Sunday

Still leaves the 4 transfer guards and Amir Williams battling for 1 or 2 spots in this scenario (Is the Roberts kid gonna play/somebody reshirting?). And obviously DeCady and Edmead by all accounts have the potential to easily move into the starting lineup sooner than later.

Seems like a perfectly adequate mid major team now with room to surprise. But the top 3 teams in the conference are so stacked (and more experienced), still very hard to see a path to being a true contender. But if this Victory kid can play really will make a huge difference

Jaeden Roberts will be the starting point guard.


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On paper, this team is at least 11 deep and very competitive in conference, in my opinion.


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Mark, there are too many unknowns
We can't go by potential
The top three teams have proven CAA quality players
Our recruits and transfers while they seem to have potential, we have not seen them against CAA quality competition
Let's not get ahead of ourselves

I'm sold - know it's only highlights but looks extremely agile. soft touch and hands. Gives us very needed SIZE AND DEPTH at the position!

Things are certainly looking better.

D1 Dockets has Iona, Quinnipiac, Norfolk St., and Bucknell on the schedule, in addition to games listed on the Hofstra website, where those four games are NOT shown. Anyone know if those games are on? If not, there are no out-of-conference home games?

I'm taking the under on 11th place...feeling much better about the squad! Need Cruz to play to his potential.

And I'm still not overly impressed with the projected top teams in the caa...middle of the pack in the league's stronger years

DutchPride86: Where do Morgan, Reaves, Boyd and Wills fit into your analysis? They didn't come here to ride pine and admire the Mack?

Practice players? It's hard to evaluate these kids without seeing them play. The year could be full of surprises.

Mikey77 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 24, 2025 5:14 pm DutchPride86: Where do Morgan, Reaves, Boyd and Wills fit into your analysis? They didn't come here to ride pine and admire the Mack?

Its a good question. If they go 10 deep at least one of them will make the regular rotation. And I think its certainly possible any of them could jump Carlos Lopez or the freshman guards. On paper Lopez at least produced at a higher level when he played 2 yrs ago and the freshman are fairly highly touted, which is why I put them ahead for now. But outside of Cruz feels like the entire guard rotation truly may be TBD and change multiple times throughout the course of the season

Also forgot about Amir Williams. Think he might sub for German. Guess we'll see.