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willstafa24 said:
Are you referring to the 35% shooting the two combined for in the tourney? And not for nothing but Ball scored 11 points with 1 turnover and nothing else in that final.
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And you think that their shooting percentages were suppressed by the fact they both started ? That's your theory ?
 
3rdbass said:
Has Jocob Ross declared he was back? I might of missed the annoucement.
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No, but I'd expect him to stick around at least while Jayden is still on the roster. Maybe he develops into something, maybe he goes to the portal after Jayden is done. We'll see
 
REB1094 said:
So with the Solo injury news, we’re rolling out:

PG - Silas/County
SG - Braylon/young Ross
SF - Ross/Landrew
PF - Khamenia
C - Hines

Work to do! I’d like an upperclassman PG, a backup SG that can score if needed, and a quality backup PF and C

Who are we currently in the mix for?
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You have to think a Malachi Smith type is a must. County slides over and gets whatever minutes are left at SG and if he can’t hack it, you just see Silas and the Malachi replacement play together like they did at times this past year.
 
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lateralous said:
You have to think a Malachi Smith type is a must. County slides over and gets whatever minutes are left at SG and if he can’t hack it, you just see Silas and the Malachi replacement play together like they did at times this past year.
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It is pretty funny to see the recency bias on this. This is no less the Hassan Diarra role than it is the Malachi Smith role. LOL
 
OceanDoggie said:
Thanks, do you have a source or is this your intuition?
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Multiple sources very close to the situation (zero sources but just looking at him, he looks thin, but to b 7’0” 190 you almost have to be sickly thin, and he doesn’t give off that impression to me). I’d guess close to 210-215.
 
Bigbrad1029 said:
Why if your admitting Balls defense is suspect which is true, he should be used off the bench for instant offense particularly if he gets the shooting touch back…sports is the only real Meritocracy left in our society the best player for each position should start
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Benching a multi-year starter for a freshman is how you kill chemistry. Who finishes > who starts.
 
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Mooch82 said:
Multiple sources very close to the situation (zero sources but just looking at him, he looks thin, but to b 7’0” 190 you almost have to be sickly thin, and he doesn’t give off that impression to me). I’d guess close to 210-215.
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OK, so this is your intuition. I hope he is heavier, but all those photos of him that you see are during the Season, after he took his official weight. The majority of College Basketball players don't gain weight during the season.
 
lateralous said:
Ha, true. Hurley seems to have a type he looks for in the backup PG role and those two are the mould
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I suspect Hurley would prefer they be bigger, but if they were bigger they wouldn't be available as backups with their skill and experience level.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I suspect Hurley would prefer they be bigger, but if they were bigger they wouldn't be available as backups with their skill and experience level.
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Much like how he seems to always have two Cs with complimentary skill sets, I've been under the assumption that he likes to give a completely different look with the backup PG. Someone who is a little smaller and quicker and can get under a bigger opposing guard.
 
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DRBackup said:
And you think that their shooting percentages were suppressed by the fact they both started ? That's your theory ?
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I mean, that is a theory. They were both primary shooters without passing or elite ball-handling skills last year. Both are a pure 2 and undersized to play the 3. Mullins showed some rebounding occasionally but Solo never really did. So, yes, my theory is that they don't mix well. And, yes, not shooting well through six straight games in the NCAA tourney could be evidence of that. It's not proof but it does support the theory.
 
willstafa24 said:
I mean, that is a theory. They were both primary shooters without passing or elite ball-handling skills last year. Both are a pure 2 and undersized to play the 3. Mullins showed some rebounding occasionally but Solo never really did. So, yes, my theory is that they don't mix well. And, yes, not shooting well through six straight games in the NCAA tourney could be evidence of that. It's not proof but it does support the theory.
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Occam's razor applies here. We know that Ball was hurt (somewhat seriously). We know that the offense generated plenty of open shots for both Ball and Mullins. And we know that Mullins was also battling minor injuries almost all season and was prone to taking some ill-advised deep 3s. So you can either make 10 assumptions bout the two not mixing well, or you can make one assumption -- that what we know to be true was the the cause of the poor shooting.

I'll go with the latter -- Ball's shooting was due to injury, and Mullins' inconsistency was due to his own injuries and some poor shot selection.
 
HW611 said:
Don’t you have another player you want to tell the board about how good they are just to turn around and say they actually weren’t good enough to play here when they bust?

I don’t know why people take your opinions seriously anymore with your track record.
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Someone is a little testy...
 
Excalibur said:
Occam's razor applies here. We know that Ball was hurt (somewhat seriously). We know that the offense generated plenty of open shots for both Ball and Mullins. And we know that Mullins was also battling minor injuries almost all season and was prone to taking some ill-advised deep 3s. So you can either make 10 assumptions bout the two not mixing well, or you can make one assumption -- that what we know to be true was the the cause of the poor shooting.

I'll go with the latter -- Ball's shooting was due to injury, and Mullins' inconsistency was due to his own injuries and some poor shot selection.
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Great that's your theory and it may be true. One thing I'll say is that Ball is not sitting out the season because it takes a year to heal. It is because the staff wants Mullins at the 2 but doesn't want to be disloyal to Ball or have him transfer. It is a genius idea to have him sit and come in next year and start at the 2 when Mullins leaves.
 
willstafa24 said:
Great that's your theory and it may be true. One thing I'll say is that Ball is not sitting out the season because it takes a year to heal. It is because the staff wants Mullins at the 2 but doesn't want to be disloyal to Ball or have him transfer. It is a genius idea to have him sit and come in next year and start at the 2 when Mullins leaves.
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Again, Occam's razor. Your response is to come up with a theory with even more moving parts . . .

And the minute the Ball announcement came out, I figured there would be a handful of imbeciles that would start speculating on this. You certainly didn't disappoint.
 
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Excalibur said:
Again, Occam's razor. Your response is to come up with a theory with even more moving parts . . .

And the minute the Ball announcement came out, I figured there would be a handful of imbeciles that would start speculating on this. You certainly didn't disappoint.
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Well, that wasn't nice. I think it's more than reasonable to speculate on a message board. Why do you think Ball sitting out the year then?
 
Two options:

Tell a kid he's going to have to work really hard in post op rehab and needs to be ready to go Day 1 of the season

OR

Tell same kid he'll be able to take his time and rehab properly, work on all the little things he needs to, continue to make money, and come back for a Super Senior season.

Pros and cons to both, but I would imagine Ball knows how tough it was to keep it together this year and play hurt, and may not want any hint of that for his last year and choose option 2.
 
willstafa24 said:
Well, that wasn't nice. I think it's more than reasonable to speculate on a message board. Why do you think Ball sitting out the year then?
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Given that shooting is his primary skill, he's probably likely to be ineffective early on even once technically cleared to play. It's better for him and his career aspirations to play a full season fully healthy.
 
aceboon said:
surprised at this one, NIL money must be crazy right now because he's a guy expected to be drafted in the teens/late lottery. Florida's frontcourt will be strong once again

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Was supposed to go around Mullins. Florida is your likely preseason 1. Top 5 will be the same suspects, some scramble of Florida, UM, Illinois, UConn, then MSU, Duke and Zona just on the outside.

You wonder if Golden entertains the GS job given this.
 
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