eh, my issues with Jeremy and I think others as well is not that he didn't become Rip/Ray/Caron his second year, because it is hard to make that jump to #1 and as tzznandrew pointed out, BG is one of our greatest and even he struggled to get to that point well into his jr year. My issues is just with his entire approach to the game this year on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball. Defensively he just made no effort at all this year, you CANNOT play d standing upright, Donny called him out on it in the Bahamas and it continued throughout the entire year. I don't think anyone would confuse Jeremy with a lockdown defender last year but there is no doubt that he made an effort to play D in order to be on the court once he started getting benched in the early goings last year. There just wasn't that effort, and it shows in the lack of steals he got playing the passing lanes this year as well. Twice this season he basically let two guys walk the ball up the court and shoot 3s to win a game without any effort on his part to try to contest or challenge the shot, the first was when Michael Snaer missed his game winner in the FSU game, the 2nd was Kilpatrick's 3 against Cincy when it was a miracle that we had even tied it up at that point.
As far as offense, Jeremy simply did too much standing around on the perimeter jacking up long and contested 3s instead of working to get open in the midrange or working to take a few dribbles off a pass received from 15-20ft in to launch up the floater that he pretty much abandoned. When you're 19-20 years old you shouldn't abandon the parts of the game that worked so well for you to become a one dimensional player. There's hundreds of players in college that do nothing but hoist up 3s all game, how many have Lamb's ability to shoot from midrange or have that floater in their arsenal? I just don't understand why he would settle so much for 3s and leave the parts of his game that made him unique for a college wing behind. Becoming a one dimensional 3 point shooter that hangs around the 23 point line is what you do when you're in your 30s and your knees are shot, not when you are 19. It just seemed like Jeremy's game on offense this year just screamed "don't try to get hurt and play safe" instead of taking advantage of the abilities that he has. I know some of you guys try to make him out to be Rashad and say he can't dribble but he can, he might not be able to split a double team like Kemba while maintaining it but he has a nice crossover and hesitation that he can use to create space for a pull up jumper, but he just settled way too much for 3s.
