Kwame Evans enters the portal

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In a not so shocking move, Kwame Evans has entered the portal. That's going to leave a major hole for Altman and his staff rebuilding the roster this offseason.

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[OregonFan4Life]

Can’t blame him, he deserves better than what Oregon has given him. I hope he finds a better situation where he can succeed and get the proper coaching/training to help him overcome his shortcomings as a player so he can have a professional career in basketball.

On the bright side this should at least open up some room for Oregon’s basketball NIL fund so the can hopefully invest in more quality portal additions, assuming the scouting improves over the last few years.


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[UOducksTK1]

Maybe I'm in the minority on this one, but I feel like Evans is replaceable for probably less than we were giving him. Shooting 45% from FG and 30% from 3PT (42% and 29.% in Big Ten play) is something we can get in the portal for half the price.

I think the sad part is we're starting from scratch and keeping Evans would have kept some familiarity. But a hard reset at this point is maybe best for our long term outlook.

Curious what Shelstad will do.

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Maybe I'm in the minority on this one, but I feel like Evans is replaceable for probably less than we were giving him. Shooting 45% from FG and 30% from 3PT (42% and 29.% in Big Ten play) is something we can get in the portal for half the price.

I think the sad part is we're starting from scratch and keeping Evans would have kept some familiarity. But a hard reset at this point is maybe best for our long term outlook.

Curious what Shelstad will do.

Lots of rumors going around that Shelstad is gone too and that he could easily have played if he'd wanted to but instead chose to sit out after reinjuring his hand in January. If he's gone, it'll basically be a full reset even if they somehow manage to keep Ariza in the fold. On the plus side, they'd have nearly a full NIL budget to spend but I'd be surprised if boosters ponied up as much money as they did for this past season with an entirely new roster.

[UOducksTK1]

Ya not ideal. Honestly this is the time for a reset with coaching staff.

Could help build some excitement and there’d be much more patience with a rebuild.

[OregonFan4Life]

Ya not ideal. Honestly this is the time for a reset with coaching staff.

Could help build some excitement and there’d be much more patience with a rebuild.

I agree, one of the main issues with basketball is lack of fan excitement/support. Maybe Altman will turn things around next season but I’m having a hard time seeing Oregon basketball finish in the top half of the B1G next year. If that’s the case under Altman, not much you can do to market the team and get seats filled up, but a new coach always brings fan involvement and excitement. If Oregon finishes in the bottom half of the B1G next year fans will be excited cause the message of a bright future can be promoted, sorta like Altman’s first season when we won the CBI with Joevan Catron. If that happened under Ernie Kent, fans wouldn’t have cared.

The fact is Oregon basketball won’t get the funds to be more competitive until they get more seats filled and fans tuned in. As of right now fan involvement with Oregon basketball is lower than I’ve ever seen it in my lifetime. If Oregon wants to be more competitive they need to bring in more revenue, football already subsidizes the rest of the sports but if basketball can at least break even or bring a bit of income that allows more NIL to spend on quality recruits/portal players, and Oregon basketball has not been competitive in the portal.

Given the poor performance we’ve seen on the basketball court the last few years in addition to the poor financial performance lately of Oregon basketball and how little revenue they bring in, I personally feel the only reason to keep Altman is goodwill, but I truly think the best thing for Oregon basketball is to move on from Altman.


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[UOducksTK1]

For sure. And I will say, even if Oregon finishes in top half and makes it to the tournament, the excitement just feels meh. Ever since our 2016 run, it feels like involvement is so bad. We've had some really good teams since then, and that didn't seem to really help attendance or the passion from the city.

I'm not even blaming Altman, in fact I think the issue is far beyond him. A whole culture change to basketball needs to happen from the top down. So maybe a new hire can help bring that change, but it might not either. Even if we have a hire who does as good as Altman.

[OregonFan4Life]

I really wonder what caused fan involvement to drop so much in Oregon basketball, it might be the portal as there are so many new faces every year, but does seem like every team has this problem but not to the extent Oregon has, even Northwestern gets quite more fans in their arena. I’ve been to some big games/sellouts in MKA, back in 2016 it certainly was buzzing against Arizona and other top team. But does seem like Altman did not capitalize on that success.

Maybe this is me being overly negative, but I honestly think the issue is simply that Oregon basketball is tough to watch. Even when they win games a lot of time it’s due to effort/mental toughness, but Oregon basketball has been a difficult watch for a while now. Outside of Shelstad we haven’t had dynamic shooters, and even with Shelstad shooting has been inconsistent. There is a lot of sloppy play/turnovers, guys stand around a lot, constantly get lost on defense and give up open 3’s, Oregon basketball is tough to watch if you are a fan. Heck, we had 3 field goals in the B1G tourney, all by one player. That’s just simply bad basketball, especially at the end of the season that nobody wants to watch.

Maybe I’m too much of an Altman hater but I think Oregon basketball is simply not fun to watch anymore, just due to poor, sloppy, and unorganized play on the court.


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[UOducksTK1]

I really wonder what caused fan involvement to drop so much in Oregon basketball, it might be the portal as there are so many new faces every year, but does seem like every team has this problem but not to the extent Oregon has, even Northwestern gets quite more fans in their arena. I’ve been to some big games/sellouts in MKA, back in 2016 it certainly was buzzing against Arizona and other top team. But does seem like Altman did not capitalize on that success.

Maybe this is me being overly negative, but I honestly think the issue is simply that Oregon basketball is tough to watch. Even when they win games a lot of time it’s due to effort/mental toughness, but Oregon basketball has been a difficult watch for a while now. Outside of Shelstad we haven’t had dynamic shooters, and even with Shelstad shooting has been inconsistent. There is a lot of sloppy play/turnovers, guys stand around a lot, constantly get lost on defense and give up open 3’s, Oregon basketball is tough to watch if you are a fan. Heck, we had 3 field goals in the B1G tourney, all by one player. That’s just simply bad basketball, especially at the end of the season that nobody wants to watch.

Maybe I’m too much of an Altman hater but I think Oregon basketball is simply not fun to watch anymore, just due to poor, sloppy, and unorganized play on the court.


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Arizona game was wild, but outside of that I think MKA has been far inferior to Mac.

Yeah shooting, lack of interior athleticism, true PG leadership, etc. It makes for a poor team. And for DA's style of offense, he needs those things.

Part of me wants a quick fix and a new coach sounds like the solution to that. But that may just be us being naïve with our current situation. And perhaps Altman does give us the best chance of winning.

The fan involvement side of things, I'm not so sure there's an easy fix. New stadium! haha