Welcome to The Platinum Board. We are a Nebraska Husker news source and fan community.
No one said he’s a program savior but he would take us to another level imo. Adding a 15-20ppg guy is exactly what we need. Williams could maybe take that step for us but it would be great to have both him and Fidler starting for us.
I think we would all love to add the local boy Fidler but realistically he is not going to start over proven Power6 players like Williams or Gary. Both bigger and better rebounders & defenders. Same goes with Griffiths as he's bigger plus much more athletic and was a Top 25 recruit in the 2023 Class. He took over a couple games for Rutgers last season. It would be a great problem to have if we had Williams, Gary, Griffiths & Fidler plus maybe Janowski all giving us quality minutes at the 2 & 3.
But he won't be starting. He knows that. Hence why the prevailing theory now is that he goes back to Omaha.
Fidler averaged 13 fg attempts per game last year and 4 threes, 20ppg. Williams averaged 10 fg attempts per game 4 threes. I don’t think he’s the volume guy you believe.
I agree with you, to an extent; Fidler was going to the line close to 8 times a game last season. With that being said, he is/was an excellent FT shooter so he made a lot of those.
There is a big difference between summit league and the B1G but we’ve seen it so many times. Look at what Knecht just did, obviously Fidler isn’t Knecht but 6’7, jumping from northern colorado to Tennessee and he’s national player of the year type. Basketball is the easiest sport to make the jump up a major conference.
Knecht is also in an entirely different stratosphere of athleticism, to be fair...
Yeah, and Brice Williams also seemed to transition just fine. I don't think it's a stretch to say he is better than Brice Williams was at Charlotte. He's more well rounded on offense. It's hard to know how any of these lower transfers will do at the highest level--some flop, some thrive more than they did at the lower level (Knecht). I think it's possible Fidler would lead us in scoring next year.
If Wisconsin wants him so bad why is he gonna go back to UNO for $90K? They would be able to offer him way more and easily purpose a bigger role at a P6 school. He had double the shot attempts from any teammate at UNO and isn’t a defender. Every school that’s recruiting him now wants him as a 6th man. The best place for him is back at UNO.
I looked at about 10 high scoring, lower conference transfers out of last year's portal and it looks like the "typical" outcome is about a 30-40% haircut on PPG.
For every Knecht there are also players who struggle to transition to higher levels of competition. Plus Knecht is on a completely different level athletically. Boogie Coleman was a stud at Ball St, barely saw the floor for us. Kansas was counting on Nicholas Timberlake to be their outside shooter as he excelled at Towson University and was highly sought after in the portal scoring 17.7/game shooting 41.6% from 3 for Towson. He was a bust at KU scoring 5.2 pts/game only shooting 30.3% from 3 for KU. Trevor Lake was a bust for us after playing well at University of Indianapolis. Matev Kavos transfer from Seattle was an All WAC player leading the conference in 3 pointers and 3 pt percentage, yet struggled to produce for us. Shot 45.8 from 3 for them and only 33.8% for us from 3.
Knecht is a MUCH better athlete and defender. I watch more UNO basketball than anyone on the board. He is an awesome offensive player but he’s going to torched on D
I said obviously Fidler isn’t Knecht, the point was someone can go from No Colorado to player of the year type. Someone that thinks Fidlers game doesn’t transition to P5 simply doesn’t know basketball or thinks it’s still the 90s.
