Deandre Daniels Is Already Better Than Rs.

[Walker11]

Roscoe is struggling now. The coach benched him, and he's playing on eggshells. Are we supposed to pretend it isn't so? Last year was awesome but once the banner is raised it's a new season.

He was benched for missing class. I agree that its obvious DD is a more polished offensive player but leave it at that. No need to exaggerate Roscoe's struggles when they are 2 games into the exhibition season, w/ the kid being benched for the majority of one game due to academics.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Roscoe is struggling now. The coach benched him, and he's playing on eggshells. Are we supposed to pretend it isn't so? Last year was awesome but once the banner is raised it's a new season.

Oy vey. The kid got benched for a half for skipping class, and they've played 2 high school teams. Jamaal Trice looked pretty good in his first exhibition game too. Every year with this.

 

[asuwish]

He should start.

I think DD looked great, and I thought he does more than RS. He looked like a smoother shooter, shot blocker, ect. 1 thing I noticed was when after he closed out a shooter on the wing, instead of boxing him out he would leak out on the break. This works well against cw post, but not the Big East. A long rebound and that player gets an easy 2nd look. Sometimes players who are ultra athletes don't do the fundamentals. I noticed Lamb, RD, DD, AD, all of them miss timing jumps on rebounds and not caring about the other team. 1 player, Wolf, took his man out every time, so you could tell he was given a good practice habits growing up. Basketball is also about mismatches, and the 1 time they set a pick on Wolfs man so he had a shorter guy on him and he curled to the hoop he scored. I am nowhere suggesting he plays a lot, but smart teams do those things.

 

[ctchamps]

The season is fully under way. I thought there were a lot of good points raised in this thread. When it comes down to it, if I take the sum total of all the comments, I think we get a pretty well rounded understanding of these two players up to this point in time. And we got a wonderful overview of the perspectives of fans regarding this issue.

At least it is refreshing to argue with one another over a bounty of riches as opposed to things gone wrong. And boy do we love to argue our points of view.

 

[ctchamps]

This ain't the Kobyashi Maru, HBF. I said both games.

I love your Trekkie references.

 

[Vehcoo23]

I don't think the coach benched him because of play. It was because of some team rule he violated.

 

[ctchamps]

I don't think the coach benched him because of play. It was because of some team rule he violated.

He cut a class.

 

[DMW88]

DD's upside on offense may be higher than RS...but I like RS toughness and defense...let DD and RB (when eligible) come off bench for offensive sparks...

 

[superjohn]

I agree it's kind of silly to already be inserting Daniels in the starting lineup over Roscoe but saying Trice looked very good in exhibition games is false, Trice and Darius Smith looked like they didn't belong from the first time they stepped on the court at UConn. Comparing Daniels to Trice is beyond stupid.

 

[Huskymaniac]

Roscoe is struggling now. The coach benched him, and he's playing on eggshells. Are we supposed to pretend it isn't so? Last year was awesome but once the banner is raised it's a new season.

I have no problem with this post. You made an obervation, stated an opinion and even proposed why it might be so. Yes, it is a criticism, but you did not bring any other players into it. Just wanted to throw that out there....

 

[ctchamps]

I have no problem with this post. You made an obervation, stated an opinion and even proposed why it might be so. Yes, it is a criticism, but you did not bring any other players into it. Just wanted to throw that out there....

In another thread he compared me to Spock. Does that count against him.

 

[asuwish]

remember DD was ranked about #10 in his class depending on service. If AD wasn't here DD would be one of our top rated recruits EVER!