Mikey Dixon
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Good attitude and accepts his role. Love it. He when Ponds and Heron leave next year, he will be in the starting backcourt with Simon.
Good attitude and accepts his role. Love it. He when Ponds and Heron leave next year, he will be in the starting backcourt with Simon.
MarkRedman
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I really like what I've seen of Mikey so far
The real test will be how he performs in Big East competition
So far, he looks like a keeper!!
The real test will be how he performs in Big East competition
So far, he looks like a keeper!!
SJU85 wrote:Good attitude and accepts his role. Love it. He when Ponds and Heron leave next year, he will be in the starting backcourt with Simon.
I'd be absolutely thrilled with that starting backcourt next year; would mean we got a key 2019 recruit to return for one more year.
I'd be absolutely thrilled with that starting backcourt next year; would mean we got a key 2019 recruit to return for one more year.
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[quote="MarkRedman" post=300917]I really like what I've seen of Mikey so far
The real test will be how he performs in Big East competition
So far, he looks like a keeper!![/quote]
I 110% agree. I really like this kid too. Good things are to come. Especially by year 3. Can't wait.
The real test will be how he performs in Big East competition
So far, he looks like a keeper!![/quote]
I 110% agree. I really like this kid too. Good things are to come. Especially by year 3. Can't wait.
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Nice piece on Mikey, seems like a heady player. Keep Simon around next year with Figgy, Wright (who staff really likes), Dixon and Williams & that’s solid. The bigs, however...
https://nypost.com/2018/11/08/st-johns-may-have-the-answer-to-its-bench-scoring-woes/
https://nypost.com/2018/11/08/st-johns-may-have-the-answer-to-its-bench-scoring-woes/
[quote="Paultzman" post=300980]Nice piece on Mikey, seems like a heady player. Keep Simon around next year with Figgy, Wright (who staff really likes), Dixon and Williams & that’s solid. The bigs, however...
https://nypost.com/2018/11/08/st-johns-may-have-the-answer-to-its-bench-scoring-woes/[/quote]
I agree. It's obviously way too early for this, but.......Simon and Figgy are our most important 2019 recruits.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/08/st-johns-may-have-the-answer-to-its-bench-scoring-woes/[/quote]
I agree. It's obviously way too early for this, but.......Simon and Figgy are our most important 2019 recruits.
Moose
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[quote="Paultzman" post=300980]Nice piece on Mikey, seems like a heady player. Keep Simon around next year with Figgy, Wright (who staff really likes), Dixon and Williams & that’s solid. The bigs, however...
https://nypost.com/2018/11/08/st-johns-may-have-the-answer-to-its-bench-scoring-woes/[/quote]
Moose likes Wright too
https://nypost.com/2018/11/08/st-johns-may-have-the-answer-to-its-bench-scoring-woes/[/quote]
Moose likes Wright too
Anthony Mattia
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I feel like he will get the majority of the minutes backing up all 3 guards. If Ponds, Simon, and Heron play 28 minutes each, that leaves 36 minutes. I would not be surprised if he picks up 25 of those minutes leaving 11 for Trimble and Williams
we are sju
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[quote="Anthony Mattia" post=300989]I feel like he will get the majority of the minutes backing up all 3 guards. If Ponds, Simon, and Heron play 28 minutes each, that leaves 36 minutes. I would not be surprised if he picks up 25 of those minutes leaving 11 for Trimble and Williams[/quote]
Again not to belabor but Ponds and Heron will play begin 30-32 mins once BE season starts
Again not to belabor but Ponds and Heron will play begin 30-32 mins once BE season starts
Anthony Mattia
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[quote="we are sju" post=300990][quote="Anthony Mattia" post=300989]I feel like he will get the majority of the minutes backing up all 3 guards. If Ponds, Simon, and Heron play 28 minutes each, that leaves 36 minutes. I would not be surprised if he picks up 25 of those minutes leaving 11 for Trimble and Williams[/quote]
Again not to belabor but Ponds and Heron will play begin 30-32 mins once BE season starts[/quote]
You are probably correct, but that will still leave 28 minutes for the bench. I believe Dixon will get the majority of it.
Again not to belabor but Ponds and Heron will play begin 30-32 mins once BE season starts[/quote]
You are probably correct, but that will still leave 28 minutes for the bench. I believe Dixon will get the majority of it.
we are sju
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[quote="Anthony Mattia" post=300994][quote="we are sju" post=300990][quote="Anthony Mattia" post=300989]I feel like he will get the majority of the minutes backing up all 3 guards. If Ponds, Simon, and Heron play 28 minutes each, that leaves 36 minutes. I would not be surprised if he picks up 25 of those minutes leaving 11 for Trimble and Williams[/quote]
Again not to belabor but Ponds and Heron will play begin 30-32 mins once BE season starts[/quote]
You are probably correct, but that will still leave 28 minutes for the bench. I believe Dixon will get the majority of it.[/quote]
On a team that decided not to give any effort on D, Dixon stood out as one of the worst defenders.
He is going to lose PT to Trimble.
Again not to belabor but Ponds and Heron will play begin 30-32 mins once BE season starts[/quote]
You are probably correct, but that will still leave 28 minutes for the bench. I believe Dixon will get the majority of it.[/quote]
On a team that decided not to give any effort on D, Dixon stood out as one of the worst defenders.
He is going to lose PT to Trimble.
Class of 72
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[quote="we are sju" post=301288][quote="Anthony Mattia" post=300994][quote="we are sju" post=300990][quote="Anthony Mattia" post=300989]I feel like he will get the majority of the minutes backing up all 3 guards. If Ponds, Simon, and Heron play 28 minutes each, that leaves 36 minutes. I would not be surprised if he picks up 25 of those minutes leaving 11 for Trimble and Williams[/quote]
Again not to belabor but Ponds and Heron will play begin 30-32 mins once BE season starts[/quote]
You are probably correct, but that will still leave 28 minutes for the bench. I believe Dixon will get the majority of it.[/quote]
On a team that decided not to give any effort on D, Dixon stood out as one of the worst defenders.
He is going to lose PT to Trimble.[/quote]
It was nice knowing you Mikey.
Again not to belabor but Ponds and Heron will play begin 30-32 mins once BE season starts[/quote]
You are probably correct, but that will still leave 28 minutes for the bench. I believe Dixon will get the majority of it.[/quote]
On a team that decided not to give any effort on D, Dixon stood out as one of the worst defenders.
He is going to lose PT to Trimble.[/quote]
It was nice knowing you Mikey.
Seeing as Dixon is the closest thing we have to a true point guard, and seeing how this offense still looks lost much of the time, how about giving him a shot at runnning the point in the hopes that maybe he can bringing a semblance of cohesiveness to the offense? Still plenty of minutes to go around for everyone else.
[quote="Monte" post=301443]Seeing as Dixon is the closest thing we have to a true point guard, and seeing how this offense still looks lost much of the time, how about giving him a shot at runnning the point in the hopes that maybe he can bringing a semblance of cohesiveness to the offense? Still plenty of minutes to go around for everyone else.[/quote]
Curious, we scored 84 points, and I thought played pretty good offense after the early 2nd half TO by Mullin.
Curious, we scored 84 points, and I thought played pretty good offense after the early 2nd half TO by Mullin.
[quote="Logen" post=301468][quote="Monte" post=301443]Seeing as Dixon is the closest thing we have to a true point guard, and seeing how this offense still looks lost much of the time, how about giving him a shot at runnning the point in the hopes that maybe he can bringing a semblance of cohesiveness to the offense? Still plenty of minutes to go around for everyone else.[/quote]
Curious, we scored 84 points, and I thought played pretty good offense after the early 2nd half TO by Mullin.[/quote]
We look out of sorts on offense far to often: ill advised shots, lack of passing(Spanarkel mentioned that a couple of times), to much one on one. As far as I concerned, this looks like more of the same things we saw under Lavin: very little offensive structure. Don’t confuse putting up points against far inferior opponents, to actually running good offensive sets. And if Sham doesn’t get hot in the 2nd half, we loose this game. 19 point favorites. No excuse for a nail bitter against BG.
Curious, we scored 84 points, and I thought played pretty good offense after the early 2nd half TO by Mullin.[/quote]
We look out of sorts on offense far to often: ill advised shots, lack of passing(Spanarkel mentioned that a couple of times), to much one on one. As far as I concerned, this looks like more of the same things we saw under Lavin: very little offensive structure. Don’t confuse putting up points against far inferior opponents, to actually running good offensive sets. And if Sham doesn’t get hot in the 2nd half, we loose this game. 19 point favorites. No excuse for a nail bitter against BG.
[quote="Monte" post=301443]Seeing as Dixon is the closest thing we have to a true point guard, and seeing how this offense still looks lost much of the time, how about giving him a shot at runnning the point in the hopes that maybe he can bringing a semblance of cohesiveness to the offense? Still plenty of minutes to go around for everyone else.[/quote]
Other than being shorter than everyone else, I haven't seen a lot of true point guard from Dixon. To me I've seen a scorer. But regardless Mullin isn't playing a true point guard offense. More often than not they start in more of a point forward. You'll note that typically in the half court Ponds and Dixon will pass off to the top (Clark, Maybe Simon) and go off to a wing. Everyone is supposed to have a handle and everyone is supposed to know how to pass. I'd say we are pretty good with that and the low turnovers bear it out so far.
Personally I'd rather see a traditional offense with a quality pass first PG and some bigs, but with the personnel we have we pretty much only have the "positionless basketball" option.
Other than being shorter than everyone else, I haven't seen a lot of true point guard from Dixon. To me I've seen a scorer. But regardless Mullin isn't playing a true point guard offense. More often than not they start in more of a point forward. You'll note that typically in the half court Ponds and Dixon will pass off to the top (Clark, Maybe Simon) and go off to a wing. Everyone is supposed to have a handle and everyone is supposed to know how to pass. I'd say we are pretty good with that and the low turnovers bear it out so far.
Personally I'd rather see a traditional offense with a quality pass first PG and some bigs, but with the personnel we have we pretty much only have the "positionless basketball" option.
[quote="Paul Massell" post=301473][quote="Monte" post=301443]Seeing as Dixon is the closest thing we have to a true point guard, and seeing how this offense still looks lost much of the time, how about giving him a shot at runnning the point in the hopes that maybe he can bringing a semblance of cohesiveness to the offense? Still plenty of minutes to go around for everyone else.
Other than being shorter than everyone else, I haven't seen a lot of true point guard from Dixon. To me I've seen a scorer. But regardless Mullin isn't playing a true point guard offense. More often than not they start in more of a point forward. You'll note that typically in the half court Ponds and Dixon will pass off to the top (Clark, Maybe Simon) and go off to a wing. Everyone is supposed to have a handle and everyone is supposed to know how to pass. I'd say we are pretty good with that and the low turnovers bear it out so far.
Personally I'd rather see a traditional offense with a quality pass first PG and some bigs, but with the personnel we have we pretty much only have the "positionless basketball" option.[/quote]
Having Clark at the top serves one purposes, but defeats another: having our biggest guy down low. But it is what it is. As for our low turnover rate, our lack of passing probably has something to do with that also. As for Dixon, wasn’t he a PG at Quinipiac? Agree that he hasn’t shown us any real PG skills so far, but then again who would have ever thought that David Cain, Dwight Hardy or Marcus Hatten, due to lack of other options, could have taken over as floor generals? Granted the last 2 were more combo guards, but both ran their respective teams very effectively. I was hoping that maybe Sham could have assumed that type of combo role, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Other than being shorter than everyone else, I haven't seen a lot of true point guard from Dixon. To me I've seen a scorer. But regardless Mullin isn't playing a true point guard offense. More often than not they start in more of a point forward. You'll note that typically in the half court Ponds and Dixon will pass off to the top (Clark, Maybe Simon) and go off to a wing. Everyone is supposed to have a handle and everyone is supposed to know how to pass. I'd say we are pretty good with that and the low turnovers bear it out so far.
Personally I'd rather see a traditional offense with a quality pass first PG and some bigs, but with the personnel we have we pretty much only have the "positionless basketball" option.[/quote]
Having Clark at the top serves one purposes, but defeats another: having our biggest guy down low. But it is what it is. As for our low turnover rate, our lack of passing probably has something to do with that also. As for Dixon, wasn’t he a PG at Quinipiac? Agree that he hasn’t shown us any real PG skills so far, but then again who would have ever thought that David Cain, Dwight Hardy or Marcus Hatten, due to lack of other options, could have taken over as floor generals? Granted the last 2 were more combo guards, but both ran their respective teams very effectively. I was hoping that maybe Sham could have assumed that type of combo role, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
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