He wasn’t run out of town with pitchforks. He was always a solid player who generally feasted on lesser competition and struggled with better teams and more athletic bigs. That doesn’t seem to have changed. The reality for him was that he was just not going to get the minutes he wanted with Sanogo clearly ahead of him and Whaley also here demanding minutes. He found a better situation for himself to get minutes but the idea that he’s blossomed into some amazing player far beyond the likes of what he was here is maybe a bit overblown.
That’s absolutely untrue.
Josh had some of his best games against better teams and worst games against weaker competition.
The reason being some of our better opponents had front lines that required him to man up another big not chase a little guy out on the perimeter something not many 6’11 250 lbs guys are capable of doing. He frequently got in early foul trouble and played limited minutes in some of his poorer games .
That became worse when he tried to high hedge.
Two years ago we had four good wins
Miami, Florida, Houston , and Cincinnati Josh had big games in three of those , ironically Houston was the worst of the four yet Sampson grabbed him in a heartbeat.
Last year where he played sparingly he came from the deep in the bench to have a great game against USC the best front court we saw last year and probably our best win.
He was a very good rebounder averaging around 9 a game in a little over twenty minutes.
Josh came here as a kid and is about the same age as Akok who is a junior. So he still is relatively young.
