Plenty of four stars do not play like studs in college, particularly in their freshman year.
This is true, especially in the Big East. You have top 100 4 star freshman recruits like Denver Anglin (Georgetown), Zion Cruz (Depaul) and Kam Craft (Xavier) who are all playing 11 mpg or less and averaging 3 ppg or less. All, like Storr, were ranked somewhere between 50-90 in ESPN top 100 for 2022.
Its def a weird time right now. I feel like its a lot harder now for freshmen to break through when at any moment during the offseason some 24 year old man with covid exception eligibility can just pick up and transfer to your team haha. Not saying that happened at any of these schools but its just a weird time.
I believe that we will always be mired in mediocrity(or worse) with this staff. But I've been saying all along, Cragg and Shanley are looking for any excuse to keep CMA, so yes it is a mixed bag.
I was hoping Theo John would have landed somewhere this season .
That's the thing with King/Curbelo. Mike sees King as not doing a lot to push us forward, but we fans see it as not hurting us with the dumb plays that cancel our what he does to push us forward.
Kassoum Yakwe has entered the chat. And Sedee Keita, though he was at South Carolina for his freshman year.
The announcers yesterday said that CMA said that Curbelo's play makes him crazy but he likes his aggressiveness. WTF??? I know of a lot of aggressive players that don't do the stupid things that Curbelo does. I guess it's a love/hate relationship just like it is on this site.
Curbelo is probably the most perplexing player that I have seen in a long time. To paraphrase Forest Gump, Curbelo is like a box of chocaletes, you never know what you are going to get. Yesterday, he came through towards the end of the game, he made the plays that helped us win. Saving the ball from going out of bounds and then making a nice move and oass to Jones, who got fouled and made the free throws. The drive into the paint and pass to Storr for the game winner was nice to see. The hustle by him to knock the ball out of bound with 1.4 seconds left was also a nice play. I don't think we win yesterday's game if King had been playing instead of Curbelo at the end.
And that’s why I said weeks ago that with Curbelo, you have to take the bad with the good. Still don’t like his mover all game. I think there’s more bad than good with him. For every great pass or shot he makes, seems like he makes two stupid passes or shots.
I hear you Panther and agree with you, but if Curbelo plays under control all game then we're not in a nail biter at the end. We win going away. Just sayin'.
Yes. I did watch the game again last night. In addition to your points, Curbelo also set-up Soriano three times in the 2nd half on quality pick & roll passes. Joel was a little off on the free throw line, but Curbelo was still making it happen.
That is why I quoted Forest Gump, lol
I'm not sure it's in his DNA to play a controlled game.
Plus a great drive and kick for Wusu corner three when we were down close to 10 and starting to fade away.
The good. He also had some bad passes and poor shots.
