Dots: Priming for Practice

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Football Dots

• Mike Vorel at the Seattle Times has his full defense primer answering all your questions going into the start of fall camp on Friday.
• And his offense primer was also published after yesterday’s dots went up so here it is for you as well.
• Christian Caple at The Athletic lists the one player at each position that he’s most looking forward to watching during fall camp.
• WR prospect and prime Husky target Rome Odunze talks about his recent visit to Oklahoma and his timeline for making a decision in the head-to-head battle between UW and the Sooners.
• 247’s Barton Simmons goes game by game through the Husky schedule making his predictions.

• With A.J Green out for 6-8 weeks the Bengals need former Husky John Ross to step up and play like a top-ten pick.

Basketball Dots

• Wasn’t aware there were English language podcasts about Israeli basketball? Well there are and the most recent episode talks with Lauren Kirschmann at the TNT about Noah Dickerson who recently signed a contract to play in Israel.
• The Athletic profiled O’Dea’s Paolo Banchero who is a top-5 rising junior in the country and whose recruitment will be the defining moment of Hop’s ability to bring in talent given Paolo’s pre-existing ties to the program and ability to go anywhere in the country he chooses.