Ray Shipman Transfers Out Of Florida

by mlmintampa on Mar 24, 2010 12:35 PM EDT in Florida Basketball

Guard Ray Shipman will leave the Gators, the school announced today. Shipman's father told the Gainesville Sun last night that his son was planning on leaving. Shipman averaged 12.4 minutes and 2.7 points per game. He scored in double digits only once this season; 10 points against Michigan State. In his final game against BYU, Shipman played 11 minutes, registering 2 rebounds and a steal.

Shipman could not crack the lineup of the emerging Kenny Boynton and human turnover machine Erving Walker. The Palm Beach Post's Ben Volin guestimates that Shipman will try to go closer to home and play at Miami. The move also gives the Gators only two true guards. UF does have Rod Tishman, but he wasn't too excited about being in Gainesville. (Tishman is from Israel, he should be a more badass dude than anyone else on the team.) The Orlando Sentinel's Jeremy Fowler adds up another number to find that Shipman will make the 13th transfer since 2003-04.

For 2010, the only guard UF has targeted is Ray McCallum of Detroit, now that Brandon Knight is out. Billy Donovan may have to scramble to pick up another guard to provide much needed depth. The 2011 class has three guards; Bradley Beal (St. Louis), Austin Rivers (Winter Park; possibly considering Duke) and De'Ante Saunders (Deland).

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Height

They need someone with height. All 3 of the gurds projected for 2011 are 6’3" and under. We need some guards who are 6’5" or taller or a tweener G/F who is 6’6" or taller, or else we may end up with a bunch of small and fast guards, some undersized 3 and decent 4’s and 5’s.

It seems like we’ll be loaded at ends with no meat in the middle (Guards – 8, Low Post – 5, and swing men – 2 Parsons and Prather)

Boom-shocka-locka!!!

by ECFIVESTER on Mar 24, 2010 1:46 PM EDT reply actions

Rakeem Christmas

What are the odds we can land him? I know he would add to our low post in 2011 but we won’t have Tyus or Macklin then. So we’ll need him and another.

Which just thinking off the top of my head, how many available scholarships will we have in 2011?

Boom-shocka-locka!!!

by ECFIVESTER on Mar 24, 2010 2:10 PM EDT reply actions

This is not good

I hate losing Shipman….he’s a hustler on the court and he’s an SEC scholar (3.45 GPA in Sports Management). This continues a horrific trend with Billy D. Why does he lose so many players??! Until that trend stops, we will always have the same depth problem we has this year – 6-7 guys in the rotation and nobody to turn to when one of those guys is hurt or stinking up the court.

by skigator93 on Mar 24, 2010 3:26 PM EDT reply actions

the long & winding road

It just begs to wonder how Billy is going to fix the situation, or is he too busy pounding square pegs into round holes.

I was really looking forward to Gators basketball after Dan Werner.

Boom-shocka-locka!!!

by ECFIVESTER on Mar 24, 2010 5:31 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

i dont like the trend either...

the one thing that stands out on the negative side is the loss of players.
he needs to use his bench even if they screw up sometimes.
why would a player come to UF and sit the whole season on the bench.
why recruit players and sit them that much. i mean if he thinks they cant play
defense then make sure you get better defensive recruits. otherwise teach them
and let them make mistakes.

by gatorchuck on Mar 26, 2010 3:32 AM EDT up reply actions

slight correction to my post...

the lack of defense remark was not about shipman. not sure what issue donovan had with his play though. still i would say billy d needs to use his bench more even if he is not happy with something they arent doing well.

by gatorchuck on Mar 26, 2010 3:43 AM EDT up reply actions

lack of playing time cited as reason

miami herald has some good info here-
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/24/1545118/former-miami-pace-star-guard-ray.html
no comments from donovan.

maybe its better to get everyone more playing time and have a a bad year, like UCLA and UNC, but more players get better… and they stay with the team.

not encouraging to see another player leave.

by gatorchuck on Mar 26, 2010 4:01 AM EDT up reply actions

Ill have to agree with Ski....not good.

We are in desperate desperate need for depth and this just is not what we need. Now were going to have to scramble for pick ups…which almost never works out. And now our depth is going to made up mostly of Froshys and thats not usually a good thig either. Now these guys are gonna have to learn on the run instead of sittin down and watching the vets do their thing. They wont have a very good transitional period cu theyre going to have to be thrown staright into the mix, just like Kenny, but lucky for us Kenny was skilled enough to handle it as well as he did.

by gatorempire127 on Mar 24, 2010 5:30 PM EDT reply actions

so

Maybe we should just hold our scholarship and recruit for next year. Maybe a juco, but not a freshman. We will have at least 4 scholarships to offer, so that could be to our benefit.

Boom-shocka-locka!!!

by ECFIVESTER on Mar 24, 2010 5:35 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions