Minnesota, Fri. Nov. 18, 9pm, BTN/570AM
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I never said he can't or won't be a good player for us. And you do not need to be a great athlete to be a good basketball player. You do need to have some athleticism to play small forward and RF seems lacking there. Which was my point. If he can knock down shots a stretch 4 seems like a fit for him.
And I blame some of the people on the board who raved about him so that someone like myself was taken aback by his lack of athleticism. Would be like if someone sets you up on a blind date and tells you girl looks like Kate Upton when she actually looks like the band girl from the American Pie movies. She is perfectly acceptable but she is not Kate Upton.
And I blame some of the people on the board who raved about him so that someone like myself was taken aback by his lack of athleticism. Would be like if someone sets you up on a blind date and tells you girl looks like Kate Upton when she actually looks like the band girl from the American Pie movies. She is perfectly acceptable but she is not Kate Upton.
Stretch 4 spot seems logical especially in light of Ahmed & SImon eating up most of time at the 3 spot over next few years.
Btw, I am sure you had that Drago joke locked and loaded for a while. Like George Costanza no double dipping on that man.
Good point & 16 turnovers. Would love to see Johnnies grab an early road game like this heading to Bahamas. With that & even going 1-2 there, a 2-2 split is acceptable start v real competition. Of course 3-1 is preferable.
Minny box score : http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400915085
Watching the exhibition game he looked like a very good, high IQ BB player. I too, think he has the jitters. He just needs to give us some minutes this year. We have the luxury of bringing him along slowly. I think as a JR.. hes going to be a very good player for us. Not only is he a good shooter, but he is a good passer.
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Stretch 4 spot seems logical especially in light of Ahmed & SImon eating up most of time at the 3 spot over next few years.
Btw, I am sure you had that Drago joke locked and loaded for a while. Like George Costanza no double dipping on that man.
Rocky IV was on and was switching to it during commercials of our last game.
FWIW no matter how good or bad RF turns out I bet he leads the team in another kind of scoring
Good point & 16 turnovers. Would love to see Johnnies grab an early road game like this heading to Bahamas. With that & even going 1-2 there, a 2-2 split is acceptable start v real competition. Of course 3-1 is preferable.
Minny box score : http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400915085
Will take 2-2 in the next 4 for sure Paultz, and getting tomorrow would be nice head start. Oversimplification, but looking at schedule as a whole 2-2 in these 4 and getting at least 1 from Xavier/Creighton is clearest path to 16 regular season wins and 7-11 in conference.
If we are 4-2 at the end of next week, 5-2 in the next 7 to get to 9-4 OOC is very much in play. 6-1, while possible, is a big ask which is why solid showing in next 4 are critical.
Not forfeiting but reasonably assuming 0-2 v. Nova, 1-3 v. X/Creighton puts us in position where 6-6 against the rest of the conference gives us what is a very good overall conference result in my view.
Early but tomorrow is one of those (as MCN noted) toss up games that you sometimes look back at as having helped shape direction of season.
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Ahmed and Yakwe going to have to step it up
We will need a balanced effort. Keep them out of the middle and hit the boards and we can win. I'm 3 games they've shot poorly from the outside. Can't overcommit there.
We also have to keep our offense high tempo. They have one or two guys that lack stamina and not as much depth as us. Need our offense to keep dribble penetrating like they have.
Per post-game comments, the multi- guard lineups have given them a hard time. We need to give them a heaping plate of it because our guards are better than what they have faced.