But what in the three games have you seen that would warrant him getting significant enough minutes to be our third option this year
Melanin. He's the best shooter SJU has seen since Federico Mussini.
But what in the three games have you seen that would warrant him getting significant enough minutes to be our third option this year
I'd like to know what peoples expectations were for Sima this year.. cause his per 40 #s round out to about 24 pts and 12 rebs while shooting 59% from the field and 67% from the line.
I'd like to know what peoples expectations were for Sima this year.. cause his per 40 #s round out to about 24 pts and 12 rebs while shooting 59% from the field and 67% from the line.
I was hoping for somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 and 7.
I'd like to know what peoples expectations were for Sima this year.. cause his per 40 #s round out to about 24 pts and 12 rebs while shooting 59% from the field and 67% from the line.
I was hoping for somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 and 7.
Me too, and I thought that would come in about 25 minutes a game. So I am more than fine with what Sima is giving us, just needs to stay out of foul trouble. Think we have 3 quality bigs its just that none of them are offensive oriented. Thats where CJ for 15-20 minutes a game would have been nice.
I'd like to know what peoples expectations were for Sima this year.. cause his per 40 #s round out to about 24 pts and 12 rebs while shooting 59% from the field and 67% from the line.
When and if a poster states an opinion that Mussini, Amar and Freudenberg need to take the majority of the shots then inferring racism may be warranted. All our players seem to get along very well so why try and divide the fan base. Have no problem if LoVett and Ponds take the most shots and are our leading scorers but for the benefit of the team we will need some easy baskets inside from our bigs as outside shooting tends to have off nights. Would behoove the team and staff to figure out a way to get more production inside.
Said my piece, don't want to belabor the point as you are right race should not even be an issue. But if you want to know how it became an issue read the opening post of the thread.When and if a poster states an opinion that Mussini, Amar and Freudenberg need to take the majority of the shots then inferring racism may be warranted. All our players seem to get along very well so why try and divide the fan base. Have no problem if LoVett and Ponds take the most shots and are our leading scorers but for the benefit of the team we will need some easy baskets inside from our bigs as outside shooting tends to have off nights. Would behoove the team and staff to figure out a way to get more production inside.
I confess that I have not read every thread here but why and how is race even a remote issue here??? Every single one of our best players is African American. Case closed! Our three European players are support players and will contribute as the season progresses.
Said my piece, don't want to belabor the point as you are right race should not even be an issue. But if you want to know how it became an issue read the opening post of the thread.When and if a poster states an opinion that Mussini, Amar and Freudenberg need to take the majority of the shots then inferring racism may be warranted. All our players seem to get along very well so why try and divide the fan base. Have no problem if LoVett and Ponds take the most shots and are our leading scorers but for the benefit of the team we will need some easy baskets inside from our bigs as outside shooting tends to have off nights. Would behoove the team and staff to figure out a way to get more production inside.
I confess that I have not read every thread here but why and how is race even a remote issue here??? Every single one of our best players is African American. Case closed! Our three European players are support players and will contribute as the season progresses.
See the problem is not people on these boards being overly optimistic, they were just looking for a reason to bitch.
If you went into this season with modest expectations of looking forward to watching as exciting a pair of guards as the school has ever had and hoping we would win 5 or so more games and be competitive....Well then you thoroughly enjoyed the season's first three games. I did!
First off for the love of Kate Upton's boobs, if one more person criticizes Marcus Lovett for being selfish, I will have no choice but to label that person either the stupidest person on the planet a racist or both. SJU best shot is any shot that Lovett or Ponds choose to throw up there. That was the case with most of Harrison's career here as well as Marcus Hatten. If we start to get better offensive players in here and Lovett still is shooting 30 times you can circle back to me. But for right now I am happy with any shot those two take and am not the least bit worried about how many shot a small slow guard that has to be wide, I mean really wide open to get off a good shot gets.
This team is way better than last year but will still only account for 5 or 6 more wins. We are starting from zero. We have to nice building blocks that are fun to watch. Yakwe and Sima are nice pieces but are as raw as anything on the menu at your favorite sushi place.
Enjoy Lovett and Ponds, hope Ahmed can pick it up and Sima and Yakwe improve. If you chose to watch by bitching that is your loss!
An SJU fan racist is they are critical of two guards on a roster that for the past 25 years has been predominately African American? Are you out of your mind? Is a D1 college basketball fan is racist he had better start rooting for another sport and likely at the high school level in Garden City.
At this point the dropoff in offensive prowess after Ponds and Lovett is steep, and there were many on here who predicted NCAAs in Mullin's year 2 and definitely by year 3. Steadfastedly I thought year 4 form the beginning was more realistic once it became clear the cupboard was bare.
Ponds and Lovett are our best two players. period. If they have to shoulder this offensive load, the team will not win. That's a reality, and not a personal shot at either.
Unless there is an overt racist comment, please remove that rhetoric from discussion here. We have had a number of great backcourts in SJU history, so for that matter, it's foolish to proclaim Lovett and Ponds as exciting a pair as any that have played here is just foolish.
I'm not crapping on you, but using the word racist in a discussion of how our team is doing thus far is pretty damned inflammatory.
The constant DLO criticism and recent Lovett sniping coupled with the bizarre pimping of Mussini and German Fred Lyson is very curious. Lovett is 27 shots better than Mussini, end of story. Team has a bunch of issues, Ponds and Lovett aren't any of them.
Every game is different and 27 shot is a lot but that game dictated those 27 shots!
I may be missing something, but I have observed most posters thrilled with Ponds & LoVett. Expressing concern about depending on them so much doesn't mean they are ripping anyone. Regarding Freudenberg & Mussini, both are role players who may or may not contribute much this year. No sense in blowing this up into some social experiment. You don't see their upside, some guys do. Why beat it to death?
PS - I do think Freudenberg will be a solid player at some point. I feel next year this is likely. The Fred Lyson joke may have to be retired.If not, he was still worth recruiting.
Fair to judge an 18 year olds talent who is from half way across the world after only 3 games.. He doesn't have the luxury of a Luca or Louie to help make the part of the transition being away from everything and everyone you know easier and now playing a whole new style of basketball than what you've played your entire life.. However, I'm going to trust the staffs eye for talent than any one on this board.. I swear for as intelligent as some of the posters here are, they lack common sense and basic logic thinking abilities.