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C Zed "Finger Guns" Key (transfer to Dayton)

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It will be interesting to see what happens his freshman year. Will he be good enough to beat out Young and Diallo for the lion's share of the low-post minutes, or will he be more of third-stringer? I tend to think that given the situation, he has a somewhat unique opportunity to play a good bit as a 3-star frosh on an otherwise loaded roster.

On the other hand, it's possible that we will have enough talented wings and forwards that we won't really play with a "big" that much.
 
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Yeah, if we don't add another big, I tend to think we will see a lot of Liddell/Gaffney/Young playing in the front court (2 at a time). The only center we will have on the team is Diallo and I think he needs a few years to be a viable option.
 
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“I loved the campus and I loved the coaching staff,” he told The Dispatch. “I loved being around the players and it felt like home there. I fit in and I got that feeling: OK, this is the place that I want to be. That was my first official (visit). I got that feeling that this is the right place for me so I want to be here."

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While on his official visit, Key got to spend time with former Buckeyes D’Angelo Russell and Evan Turner as well as current members of the team. To read more about that visit, click here. He primarily hung out with sophomores Luther Muhammad and Duane Washington Jr., he said.

“They’re high-energy guys,” he said. “They’re always dancing, always laughing. They’re hilarious. They had me laughing the whole time. Every time a song would come on they’d get mad hyped and just start dancing and keep dancing.”

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“They like my post presence, my physical play,” Key said of the Ohio State coaches. “They like that I’m versatile, so I can stay down low in the post and bury my man and score every efficiently around the rim. I can also bring the guy out and I’ve been working on shooting. That’s been my main focus this summer in developing my game.”
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New York standout Key latest to join OSU's 2020 hoops class
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“I love the coaching staff at Ohio State,” Key told Bucknuts.com. “They want to see you succeed. They help you work on your game and they get you better. I loved the facilities there. The strength and conditioning area they have is pretty good. You can see the arena and feel what that is like with all the people there cheering for you.”

Key said he feels like he is getting in on the ground floor of something special with coach Chris Holtmann’s program at Ohio State.

“I think we have the chance to get to the Final Four and win a national championship,” Key said. “We’re going to be really good. You look at the guys who are there and the guys they have coming in. We have some elite talent there and they are working hard to add to it.”

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“They said I would play the four and the five,” Key said. “They said eventually I may even play the three if I can continue to develop my shooting. My freshman year, they want me to come in and work really hard and earn minutes. I just have to keep improving my game. They want me to be a big post presence with my back to the basket.”

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Asked what he showed during the summer to impress the OSU coaches, Key said, “Definitely my motor. I play extremely hard. I run back on defense. I run the floor on offense. I try to be a force on the court. I feel like I can rebound at a high level. Offensively, I work hard on my footwork around the basket.”

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“What impressed me and my wife was the family atmosphere,” Zed Sr. said. “We had a good rapport built with the coaches and the players. We liked the academic side of things and the ability for him to be developed.

“I think he went there and fell in love with what he saw.”

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al pinkins was hired by florida in may 2018. at the very beginning of july, florida offered zed key. that's about a year in advance of most of the high-majors offering him.

who is al pinkins? as a frontcourt coach, he was only the lead recruiter at tennessee for admiral schofield (ranked 251st). only the leader recruiter for grant williams (191st). only the lead recruiter at texas tech for kyler edwards (159th). only the reason that the red raiders landed tariq owens, who was at tennessee when pinkins was an assistant. the guy knows his stuff and knows how to spot talent that the recruiting services often pass over.

here's the beat writer for ttu's rivals site (link):

“Above all, [Al Pinkins] was the ace recruiter on staff first and foremost for that group. I think he was a big reason Tech landed some of these kids they landed over the past two years. Everybody they recruited, for the most part, here the last couple of years he’s had a hand in. The thing I’ve always heard is that on top of being a good recruiter, he is a really good talent evaluator. I think everybody they’ve gotten or signed because of him they’ve been really happy with.”
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if one of pinkins' first offers while at florida was zed key, then perhaps that's a tell-tale sign that our newest commit might be a diamond in the rough.
 
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