@JasonKingBR: PM RT: Baylor's Rico Gathers a Man Among Boys on Hardwood, May Face Gridiron Dilemma @kinggatz2http://t.co/69mWyiqo1R via @bleacherreport
Rico Gathers Story
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I've heard from a few connected people that we were never going to see the two play together after Sampson didn't qualify...it was one or the other.
Sampson, not Harkless, was the candidate to be a one-and-done/early entrant when they first signed.
I'd like to see if anyone else heard something similar.
Sampson, not Harkless, was the candidate to be a one-and-done/early entrant when they first signed.
I'd like to see if anyone else heard something similar.
So Doms having a great season so you gotta pick on Karr now?
I know that. It's BS.
It pisses me off, maybe it was addition by subtraction I don't know but Jakarr was a good player for us and played very hard for us for 2 years and now he's representing our program in the NBA and a lot of local sixers fans love him and want him long term. Why anyone would say bad things about the kid is beyond me. There were so many things that went wrong last year and chalking it up to Karr taking to many shots is annoying to me. There were other factors to last year being a failure. Enough is enough. I love Jakarr will be my new signature
I think he is a great kid...a great talent...but he held us back and anyone that thinks otherwise is blind. It doesn't matter how good he was individually. Last season, we should have danced. There was no excuse not to. Greene shot 40% from three. Harrison was right behind him. Why is Greene making big shots this year? Because he's actually taking them. Sampson hoarded shots last year in key spots. He had a good FG %...yes, because he shot 99% on his dunk attempts, of which he got 3-5 a game. He wasn't committed to the PF position and he wasn't committed on defense for the majority of the season. Plus, he cost us Amir Garrett, who would had done anything for this team.
Desco, I'd relax with the "addition by subtraction mockery." You've been wrong about EVERYTHING this past year, beginning with you guaranteeing we'd be worse without Sampson.
Back to the point of the thread, he certainly has the size and athletic ability, but most of these guys fizzle out if they don't have the previous football background.
Antonio Gates enrolled at Michigan State to play football originally and was a standout in football in high school that played with future NFL player Dwight Smith. Tony Gonzalez played both at Cal. Jimmy Graham played football in high school and is a freak athlete (4.56 40) and not much of a mauler.
The contact is the hardest thing to get used to. It's a very violent sport for those that haven't played...TV or watching from the stands cannot do it justice. You have to play low and explosive...and you have to build up the ability to expect and react to probable contact.
Gathers didn't play football in high school. There was that monster from George Mason, Jai Lewis (6'7 275), that tried football for first time and left after just a few days.
Antonio Gates enrolled at Michigan State to play football originally and was a standout in football in high school that played with future NFL player Dwight Smith. Tony Gonzalez played both at Cal. Jimmy Graham played football in high school and is a freak athlete (4.56 40) and not much of a mauler.
The contact is the hardest thing to get used to. It's a very violent sport for those that haven't played...TV or watching from the stands cannot do it justice. You have to play low and explosive...and you have to build up the ability to expect and react to probable contact.
Gathers didn't play football in high school. There was that monster from George Mason, Jai Lewis (6'7 275), that tried football for first time and left after just a few days.
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Sampson was a talented player but I thought the offense was stagnant at times with him. A bit of a blackhole on offense. The ball went in and never came out. That plus it took minutes away from Sir Dom. I thought our offense was much more fluid with Sanchez, but just my opinion.
I may be wrong, but at times it seemed that Sampson was looking to pad own stats than playing team ball. Just my opinion, but that is way I saw it.
I may be wrong, but at times it seemed that Sampson was looking to pad own stats than playing team ball. Just my opinion, but that is way I saw it.
Sanchez was a carbon copy of Sampson, just not as good. If anything he was the one who took minutes away from Pointer and Obekpa (as he wasn't on the team the year before). In retrospect that hurt the team's chemistry, ability to play defense, and our ball movement. If I remember correctly we started playing better last year when Sanchez' minutes were reduced.
If either Sampson or Sanchez played the high post and elbows as unselfishly as Dom does this year, we'd have been a tourney team last year too. Just look at how many open 3s our guys get playing off of Dom.
I give Sanchez a hard time as well, but I fully believe he would have been much better if he was given a second year. The poor kid was not given a defined role and that was a shame. It was the perfect storm...three forwards that desperately needed to be given narrow, defined roles and a coach that, for better or worse, let's his guys play (my biggest knock on the coach).
Sanchez would be great this year as the 7th man. I thought he was very good offensively AROUND THE BASKET. I don't know why in the world coach would let all three of his forwards play so much from the basket. A three by any of those guys is a bad shot compared to Greene or Harrison and, to make matters worse, leaves us with one less rebounder.
Guys like Gathers don't need their roles defined...it's in their nature. If that that kid would have come here...holy crap he would have been the missing piece for three years.