Wonderful! Some good news.

Lindo averaged 11 points and 11 boards and 2.1 steals upon joining the team for the back stretch of 2021.

His numbers were down some this year, but still had 8 points 8 boards,and notably added a 3 ball (38%) and 1.6 blocks to go with 1.5 steals a game

Very talented player, a stat stuffer with a really high ceiling, hopefully it all comes together next year at GW

Certainly good news that Ricky is returning.  He is a very competent player on a team that is, at least for the time being, very short on cmpetent players.   But he is a bandaid.   The serious patchwork still needs to come.   I thought Ricky was hindered by 2 thngs this past season, in which he regressed from his first season.  First and probably foremost, there were always whispers that he was injured and not phyiscally able to play to his full potential.  The other was he seemed to have fallen in love with the corner three pointer, and on too many plays, he would appear to run to the corner and wait for someone to throw him the ball.   Maybe this was the result of the lack of physicality caused by an injury.  To Ricky and Coach Christian's credit, towards the end of the season, Ricky again expanded and improved his game.  Agree with Mayhem (when are you going to change that name???) that he was foul prone, may of which were of the ticky tac variety.

Long Suffering Fan wrote:

Tweeted by Coach Caputo in the last day or so. (Sorry, I don't know how to forward a tweet so I copied and pasted)
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"Only three players in the country averaged 7.5 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 1.5 bpg and 1.5 spg last season: Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky Norchad Omier, Arkansas State 𝙍𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤, 𝙂𝙒"

Interesting to note, Omier just committed to Miami.

PKGW wrote:

If CC runs an offense similar to what Miami did, Ricky will have a greater opportunity to show his skill set. Would also be nice if we had a stronger 5. Felt a lot of Ricky’s defensive issues were due to having to guard a person out of position when we played small or constantly help out Our 5s.

Our 5s never saw a fake that wouldn't full them. It seemed at times that they couldn't stay between the rim or a 3rd grader. I could usually watch maybe 7 minutes of their bad D until I would give up. If they had played that  D for Gerry Gimelstob, he would have blown up !!

 

Ricky Lindo was walking your dog?

Without predicting a big year for Ricky, depending on his health status and barring our receiving any impact transfers (which I really hope isn't the case), then I see Ricky as our #2 scorer next to Bishop, as we lost 2 of our 3 leading scorers and nobody on the roster jumps out at me as being able to make some of that up.    With some tweaking of his game by Caputo, maybe 13-15 ppg?    Personally very happy he is returning.

13 & 10.

ColonialNY wrote:

13 & 10.

13 and 10 were the 2 year career averages of Yinka Dare at GW, 13.8 and 10.3 to be precise.

 

My reasoning for 13 and 10 are (a) someone has to score points aside from Bishop and for me Lindo should get plenty of those chances, barring a major transfer coming in, and (b) he can rebound as well as anyone / better than anyone currently on the roster. The 10 rebounds per game is probably wishful thinking, so maybe 12 & 8 is more realistic, but I can absolutely see him going 13 & 10 consistently.