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Could you please act like you care a little bit out there. I know he is a sleepy looking guy and doesn't show much emotion but he really seems disinterested most of the time. People are always saying he needs more touches and shots but you don't get touches when you just loaf around, he never runs hard off of picks and generally just stands around, when it comes to the other side of the court things get much worse, he is clearly our worst defender.
 
When you look at the effort he put into running off the two screens for the back to back hoops against Zona in the Elite 8 to how he moves out there now its like night and day. I haven't seen Jeremy move that hard to get free all year. The bigs do play a part in it with their poor screening, but he makes very little effort to try to get free
 
UCDaveD said:
His head is already in the NBA Draft.
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Not if he plays like this. Someone should tell him that he is costing himself money. The League doesn't take kindly to passivity.
 
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It's very disappointing because he is a great talent, I really thought he would be like Ray and Rip here, the difference is Ray and Rip always wanted it.
 
And he's our best player, so what does that say about the team's motivational leadership? As good as he is, unfortunately he's not someone teammates can feed off of, due to his emotional-less personality. I've never seen him angry, overly excited, throw an elbow, personally challenge another player (or teammate for that matter), scream or holler. He is who he is.
 
I thought he'd follow in the lines of Ray and Rip as well.

Bottom line, facts are pretty clear. He is no way near the players they were for a combination of reasons. Toughness, bball IQ, handle, movement off the ball, defense.
 
I will always remember how good Jeremy was in the tourney last year, but this year he really looks like it doesn't matter that much to him. His all around game is lacking passion and intensity. He looks like he is going to fall asleep while standing up sometimes.

His personality is the same, but the way he is competing is not.
 
Please, they said the same things about Eli Manning. Lamb's personality has always been exactly the same. The real losers are the posters who are dumping on this kid.
 
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campcalhoun2009 said:
Good Riddance!!! What a LOSER!!! Get off my team
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How can someone that was a major part in the NC run and has a Championship ring (that he earned) be a loser? What does that make the rest of us, and even worse, you for posting something like this?
 
Seriously how can this kid think he is possibly ready for the NBA. He cannot guard a chair, players from Providence go off against him. He has no frame and no strength, no way he will come off picks in the NBA. Suspect jump shot at best with an even farther 3 point line and longer stronger defenders in the NBA he wont score. This kid will get drafted and fade into nothing. He needs at least another year, he could really hurt himself finincially by leaving early his stock keeps dropping and some sites have him going second round now. I'd laugh at you if you can honestly tell me he will be successful in the NBA, no way he develops in the league.
 
kansashusky said:
Seriously how can this kid think he is possibly ready for the NBA. He cannot guard a chair, players from Providence go off against him. He has no frame and no strength, no way he will come off picks in the NBA. Suspect jump shot at best with an even farther 3 point line and longer stronger defenders in the NBA he wont score. This kid will get drafted and fade into nothing. He needs at least another year, he could really hurt himself finincially by leaving early his stock keeps dropping and some sites have him going second round now. I'd laugh at you if you can honestly tell me he will be successful in the NBA, no way he develops in the league.
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Can you show me a respected site that has him in the second round? Every site I've looked at has him in the lottery.

Not his best game today, but were you saying that after his 32 points a week ago?
 
The play where Lamb didn't hustle going after Boatright's slightly overthrown ball causing a turnover tells me everything I need to know about Lamb's performance today.
 
Robertelamin said:
The play where Lamb didn't hustle going after Boatright's slightly overthrown ball causing a turnover tells me everything I need to know about Lamb's performance today.
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I think it's so interesting how so many posters read "lazy" and "uninterested" into such simple things as "misjudging the path of the ball and losing it."
 
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tzznandrew said:
I think it's so interesting how so many posters read "lazy" and "uninterested" into such simple things as "misjudging the path of the ball and losing it."
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Please, he was loafing it down court. Where did he lose it? In the lights? Or did the wind take it?

Even the announcers commented on how if he actually hustled, he probably gets it on the fly.
 
He had 32 in an overtime win against Villanova with their best guard hurt.... not saying this kid cant be special but he wont get a chance to develop in the league he will sit at the end of a bench and get man handled by grown men. What is his average ppg in Big East play just curious?
 
Robertelamin said:
The play where Lamb didn't hustle going after Boatright's slightly overthrown ball causing a turnover tells me everything I need to know about Lamb's performance today.
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That's fine if we get to judge you off the worst ten secords of your life.

Lamb took his eye off the ball, lets electrocute him.
 
UCDaveD said:
Please, he was loafing it down court. Where did he lose it? In the lights? Or did the wind take it?
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I didn't realize you never misjudged a pass. He was on a fast break and the ball was lofted over a defender. Kids make mistakes--it doesn't always speak to some deeper core failing.

The kid isn't lazy. All these kids work their asses off.

Sadly, right now they don't seem to have focus.
 
tzznandrew said:
I think it's so interesting how so many posters read "lazy" and "uninterested" into such simple things as "misjudging the path of the ball and losing it."
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It looked like a sloppy play, simple as that. He was jogging, and he decided to let the ball bounce, rather than sprinting and catching it out of the air. Perhaps it was "misjudged," as you say, but, really, if he had just sprinted after 'n thing, it would have required no judgment.
 
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dsturdy5 said:
There is something wrong with our fanbase if this is how we treat a guy who was such an integral part of a magical run last spring.
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Again, as annoyed as I was with Tyler Olander's tweet a couple of weeks back, hasn't The Boneyard more or less proven him correct?
 
tzznandrew said:
Again, as annoyed as I was with Tyler Olander's tweet a couple of weeks back, hasn't The Boneyard more or less proven him correct?
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Sure has. When you look at it, the current UConn seniors are the first class to have experienced two final fours in their time at UConn. I wonder if that has created a whole different set of expectations for the student fan. Not saying everyone making similar comments has to be a student, just an observation.
 
The play where Boatright lobbed him the full-court pass (perfectly placed by Boat, BTW) and it bounced a couple of feet in front of him and just rolled out of bounds because he: a.) didn't even try to catch it out of the air, b.) didn't even try to catch it off of the first bounce in front of him (where he could've reached it if he put his hands out and attempted to), and c.) watched it bounce out of bounds in front of him instead of busting his ass for 5 yards to grab the ball and save it. He was jogging at best and it was exposed best when the ball was just going out of bounds and he sprinted for about 2 steps to act like he was trying to save it. Screw sprinting at that speed for a longer period of time when it actually matters in order to catch the ball, I'll just spring for a couple feet as it goes out of bounds and make it look like a bad pass that I couldn't save.

I haven't ragged on Jeremy all year... I may have said once or twice that I'd like to see him come off screens harder and fight to get open more... but other than that I haven't taken jabs at his effort AT ALL this year. But his effort was seriously exposed today. I always wrote it off as just his demeanor... but it goes beyond that and it has become clear as day after tonight's game.

Sure he had a 32 point game, great. That is because he has talent. Talent will get you a 30+ point game at some point. But effort and heart (combined with his level of talent) will get you multiple 30 point games a season and will help you, as the "best player" on the team, will your team to victory.
 
tzznandrew said:
Again, as annoyed as I was with Tyler Olander's tweet a couple of weeks back, hasn't The Boneyard more or less proven him correct?
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It is one thing to be a fairweather fan, insult the team, give up on them, and not continue to hope that they will turn it around. I do not feel that questioning a player's effort/heart after a performance like tonight falls into that category by any means. If you are doing it all season long at every mistake or slip-up, then OK you have a point... but tonight was an abysmal display of effort/heart on his behalf. He's not alone, but as someone that is supposed to be the best player and be a leader (at least by example since he's not a vocal leader obviously)... it's just abysmal. Only way to describe it really.

And the "expecting too much" out of a sophomore doesn't apply to a player that almost left for the NBA last year because he thought he was ready after a solid post-season winning streak. He put himself in this role.
 
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