It's funny how opinions differ. I don't trust Sanogo in the big spot yet. Last year when they got the ball to him, I can't remember when he came through. Maybe it was because he was worn down late. I think matchups will determine who gets the ball late in the big spot this year.
Very unselfish
Jackson is the team leader, Hurley says he's the best leader he's ever been around.
This could be a big part of the success. Lots of players on the team have hyped it. It’s like playing with Superman.
As Clingan himself has said on more than one occasion, he has been facing a great big man every day since he stepped foot on campus...........................Adama Sanogo in practice and so he said he is therefore not intimidated by anyone.
I think his issue last year was that he forced it no matter what which killed his overall efficiency, this year he is clearly taking what the defense gives him. I have always said that Sanogo taking good shots is our best shot and the key for him is to step back when he doesnt have it or when he is double covered
This isn't true. He's faced N'Faly Dante, Kel'el Ware, Charles Bediako, Osun Osunniyi, Moussa Cisse, and Colin Castleton.
This metric should not be used that way. It's a team metric being applied to individuals. Have to adjust it for teammates (like RAPM does) and usage for it to be useful as an individual metric.
It's just a basic plus/minus ranking so not all that useful. Just interesting to look at and it basically just says we're a really good team more than any individual analysis on players
He was worn down and they swarmed him bc we had no consistent outside threat.
Adama also plays against starters more often
I mostly agree with this, but the point I tried to make in the other thread, is that Clingan gets to come in and face either (a) defenders who have been worn down handling Sanogo and who may have foul issues or (b) backups to the guys in (a). So Clingan's stats (dominance) are inflated by that. He's been awesome, but I don't think he'd have those numbers if he started games and we didn't have Sanogo. Clingan facing backup 5s is just criminally unfair. I think we will see that Sanogo will be helped come March as well, he was worn down last year by the high usage rate.
Same as 1969-70 Knicks. Too early yet. But see similarities in their success and UCONN…..had very good players..very good, but not super super stars like Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Lew Alcindor Kareem ,Big O or Monroe. But Holzman had them playing ball movement and hit the open man team ball philosophy. Audacious for me to even compare to this Knicks team, but looking at UCONN it’s ball move,ent, hit the open man because like said anyone can be the man on a given night. We’ll see
