Mullins is our best athlete. Ross might beat him in a dunk contest but his athleticism rarely translates to the court.
No doubt. I just think the minutes he's getting recently are about what he's going to get unless there's foul trouble.
We should have blown them all up like Demary did when he ran the Butler player over and the Butler guy got called for the illegal screen he set. Of course it is rather dangerous also since Demary took a good pounding for doing it.
It’s not that hard to get 1-2 of these kids on the roster. We are stashing kids like Furphy there, who is a void of athleticism. We brought Mahaney & McNeeley in last year expecting them to be part of a unit alongside AK & Solo? County and Landrew aren't going to blow anyone away with their athleticism.
Totally agree with Mullins, which speaks volumes. It a trend. We seem to be moving away from a profile that was central at delivering two dominants NCs. This isn't a complaint, because we are 23-2, it's an observation. Ross is more of a striding athlete than a quick twitch type. He's not going to beat another player to a ball.
Solo is by no means a plus athlete, at all. Last night, Solo did nothing in the box other than sink shots, which is massively valuable. I think he had one rebound and 0 assists, didn't do much of anything else. Which is fine because he just doesn't seem to have the kind of versatility to do many things well at once, and keeping him in the shooting zone is where he's needed most.
Yeah lets see it, are the two in the big east on a top 10 kenpom team playing with four national champions on their team? I literally said, relative to their team's talent level. Yeah if he was on some shit Big East team like Stefaan Vaks, Im sure he'd have the ball alot more and average more because he has to.......
I think you are confusing athleticism with performance.
He's like, Solo isn't athletic because he didn't fill the stat sheet, and Reed did but he's not athletic because he plays below the rim, and Braylon isn't because (answer uncertain). He's just throwing stuff against the wall, just to show he's not satisfied, or something
This is true but we had one elite physical run and jump athlete on both of those teams. We also had lob threats and the biggest player we've ever had as a defensive cheat code. We still had a lob threat in Samson last season but we've been lacking the elite physical run and jump athlete the past two seasons and we didn't address that with our recruits coming in next season. Hopefully we address it in the portal.
will you STOP trying to use logic with this guy??
I mean, Landrew is DEFINITELY not an athlete. He was only getting offers from the Alabama's of the world as a WR because.......
How hard is this to process - we don't have an athlete like Step or AJx, two players that were foundational for two amazing runs, given their defense and ability to be catalysts athletically. We don't have anything that looks like them and seem to have abandoned it. Not only does having players like that afford a more balanced & dynamic roster, but they are also fun to watch. Players that can make plays, play above the rim, are a lot more fun than jump shooting contests.
I think the portal is a hard place to find them. A kid like Mitchell obviously was out of the portal, Yaxel. They're out there. A kid like Carr at MSU qualifies.
Not sure why my points get twisted - no, I didn't say those teams were entirely based on that, what I said was that guys like AJx and Steph were core to our success, and dominance. We overwhelmed teams.
It's something we can get around and still reach our goals if our execution is great and we make shots but it's leaving us with very little room for error. I was worried about St. John's exposing it (they did) and I'm still worried about St. John's in the one or two more times we face them. There are a few better versions of St. John's around the country where we will be at a pretty substantial athletic disadvantage.
You keep wanting to police what a message board is and isn't. Sometimes there's no counterpoint to be made because the point in question makes no sense. Sometimes a poster just needs to hear that they're full of it. Often, actually.
And I’m crying over some milk I spilled.
I'm sure we were right there until Arkansas came in with a price that would have been ridiculous to top
7 assists for him had to be a career high - hopefully that's a tool he keeps in his toolkit.
confusing it with versatility too
No CBB team has a Steph or Ajax
I really hope something clicked for Tarris last night. He was drawing people and making great reads/passes in that second half along with some powerful finishes around the hoop. He's our one physical dude who is capable of going beast mode around the rim. If he is fully engaged, aggressive and making the right decisions it changes the whole team as does Solo making threes. Fingers crossed both players turned a corner last night.
StJ - Mitchell