Donnie TyndallKNOXVILLE – New Tennessee men’s basketball coach Donnie Tyndall and his staff still have some targets to recruit and roster spots to fill, but they seem happy with the earliest of their late additions.
In the past week, Tennessee has signed forward Jabari McGhee and guards Kevin Punter and Detrick Mostella to revamp a depleted signing class and rebuild a dwindling roster, and while recruiting options are very limited in early May, the Volunteers appear to have done well with the players they’ve added.
In Punter, Tennessee is getting a player who averaged 20 points per game to earn junior college All-America honors and was recruited to Missouri before the Tigers’ coaching change.
“The thing I like about him is you can give him the ball and say, ‘Go get me a basket,'” Tennessee assistant Al Pinkins said Tuesday. “You watch UConn, you watch Kentucky — I think that’s what that game came down to: You call plays; you call set plays. OK, teams are really good defensively, the shot clock’s at 10.
“The really good teams are teams that have guys, when the coaching is out of it, they can go get the ball and score a basket. Punter’s really good at that.”