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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5302856, member: 175"] I agree Kon was a better all around player. The trouble with the specific injury Liam had is that the high ankle is the mechanism that gets you on your toes and gives you your lift. You can recover from a rolled ankle a lot easier. Your shooting mechanics suffer with a high ankle that’s stiff or heavily taped. You can try to will the ball in the basket, but your usual shot is a bit broken - you don’t get your legs in the shot and compensate with your arms too much. And then the confidence goes. The Creighton game proved to be fluky - I was honestly shocked he shot that well, but it was an outlier before the predicatable slump kicked in. For NBA purposes, it might have been wiser not to come back this year - but then he’d be accused of being soft and injury prone. Kneuppel to me looked like a Cam Spencer playalike - just a few inches taller so he has even more NBA value than Cam. Crafty, smart, good passer, unpredictable. He has a couple more layers to his game than Liam. Although the couple games before his injury, Liam was starting to show more versatility as a passer, hitting step backs, etc. Not sure what would have happened had he stayed healthy (he’d have been scouted by opposing coaches who might have adjusted their defensive schemes). [/QUOTE]