Finally some good news for MBB

Well, that’s good. I was hoping Tinkle resigned/quit.

Right because heaven forbid a kid take advantage of the opportunity given to him and earn it on the court. So Mike Hass should never have earned a scholarship either then? Because no one felt he was worth one out of high school right? Get a grip man, I can't imagine going through life that petty and resentful that this would ever be my first thought. Rather than appreciate what JL accomplished (or just not said anything and moved on) you somehow find a way to make it about Tinkle and disrespect one of the players as well? Yeah the criticism of the coach and program are warranted but there's plenty of that on this board already, get over it.

There was a 6’1” 150 pound kid that couldn’t get a scholarship anywhere that had to walk on to the team at Central Arkansas University some time back…. Scottie Pippen.  Not saying Lake will be the next Pippen, but I think he would likely have been in our top 3-4 had everyone stayed. He could be “the guy” this year.

Yeah this was a no brainer. If you don’t offer a walk-on who averaged 15 mpg and was in the rotation most of last quarter of season a scholarship, you’re nuts. Especially with what the roster looks like now. That said, if he is “the guy” next season as one poster said he could be, better buckle up cuz first year in WCC is gonna be a rough ride.

I think he was one of our 2 best guards this season,  I thought he was the most active much of the time he was on the court.

This "unwanted" kid, on a per 40 minute basis, out rebounded, out assisted, out stole and under turnovered both Pope and Akanno during their time here (although this season only, Pope managed .3 higher in the assist category this season). On top of that, his 2pt and 3 pt shooting percentages were higher than either of them and his feet throw percentage was quite comparable to Pope's.

I'm not saying he will definitely be better than either of them, but on a per minute basis he out performed both in everything but scoring, and the advanced stats show it.

Give him an injury free offseason and I suspect he may be the kid running the offense unless Meithof is a special player and can handle the point.  If Lake runs the point look for his assist stats and scoring to go up.

He specifically is the least of my worries for next year at this point.  I don't know that he'll be much less "the guy" than Pope was. Bilodeau was probably our hardest to immediately replace portal player ('cept for the fact it's tough to replace "size" - it'll be interesting to see if Tinkle can land at least a halfway serviceable post player nor that Ibekwe's gone).