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I love to hear that about Adams. The difference between him being in the NBA and not comes down to toughness, really. So much fluidity, coordination, and his finishing is amazing when he doesn't shy from contact.

Rique: If the shoulder healing rumors are true, we may have the best starting backcourt in America.

Carlton: Rumors has been he's getting MUCH better. I think he's good for 8/6/1 this year.

Brendan Adams: People keep saying we might be surprised by his skill as a freshman. He's probably behind 3-4 other guards--no pressure on him; he can just play basketball.
 
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husky429 said:
I love to hear that about Adams. The difference between him being in the NBA and not comes down to toughness, really. So much fluidity, coordination, and his finishing is amazing when he doesn't shy from contact.

Rique: If the shoulder healing rumors are true, we may have the best starting backcourt in America.

Carlton: Rumors has been he's getting MUCH better. I think he's good for 8/6/1 this year.

Brendan Adams: People keep saying we might be surprised by his skill as a freshman. He's probably behind 3-4 other guards--no pressure on him; he can just play basketball.
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I love to hear this too...but I'd say the reason he isn't in the NBA is because his 3 pt shot isn't where it needed to be. Guards in the NBA need to be able to shoot unless they are freak athletes. Even then, they tend to struggle. Adams is a good athlete but he's not a freak.
 
husky429 said:
We wont ever get much scoring from the 5. Our guards are too good
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Our guards do miss shots from time to time. If we have a good 5, he'll find the ball and put it in the hole. 3 offensive rebounds a game would provide ~4 ppg on putbacks and make it a lot easier to get to 8 ppg.

I do think that Carlton is going to have about the same rebounds as points. To get to 8 ppg he probably needs at least 7, maybe 8, rpg. Last year he had 4.4 pts and 3.7 rebounds in 15 mpg. If he can cut down fouls and double his minutes, it shouldn't be too hard to match that per-minute production for 8.8 ppg/7.4 rpg.
 
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I think Brendan Adams is going to do huge things for us in his career, love his game and strength/frame. Wouldn't be surprised if he's our starting off guard/6th man next year.
 
KembaStepback said:
I love to hear this too...but I'd say the reason he isn't in the NBA is because his 3 pt shot isn't where it needed to be. Guards in the NBA need to be able to shoot unless they are freak athletes. Even then, they tend to struggle. Adams is a good athlete but he's not a freak.
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His catch and shoot is good. Struggles off the dribble A LOT.

Part of his softness was never fixing that shot. Hopefully it has changed
 
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Nebraskan18 said:
I think Brendan Adams is going to do huge things for us in his career, love his game and strength/frame. Wouldn't be surprised if he's our starting off guard/6th man next year.
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Imagine if he was a 6’4 version of his brother. Exactly what this program needs
 
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Yes, doomed.
 
I could've sworn that in looking at this thread, at every link my cursor was pointing not the index finger, but the middle one.
 
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JimOllie said:
I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this team won’t make the tournament this season. To say the talent isn’t there is absurd. The talent is there and now we have a staff who’s going to get the most out of it.
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We have a good to really good back court; but there are so many question marks in the front court. The first being rebounding. Christian Vital led our team at rebound last year at 5.4. Our back court still has some issues, 3 pt shooting, assists and turnovers were MISERABLE last year. I think people forget we would go whole halves without an assist. We had a negative assist to turnover ratio. We also shot 32 percent from three and we lost our best three point shooter in Terry Larrier at 37% ( I am excluding Polley because he shot less that 90 3 pointers)

If this team makes the tournament, then we will have overachieved.
 
KembaStepback said:
I love to hear this too...but I'd say the reason he isn't in the NBA is because his 3 pt shot isn't where it needed to be. Guards in the NBA need to be able to shoot unless they are freak athletes. Even then, they tend to struggle. Adams is a good athlete but he's not a freak.
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Lonzo Ball went #2. And he's neither of those.
 
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JimOllie said:
I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this team won’t make the tournament this season. To say the talent isn’t there is absurd. The talent is there and now we have a staff who’s going to get the most out of it.
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The talent is not there in the front court. It is not developed either. We are undeveloped (but talented) at the wing too.

Our hope is that the American is so bad that we can play our way in.
 
husky429 said:
His bbiq is off the charts and hes 6'6. Terrible comparison
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I wasn't comparing anything (certainly not to Jalen). His statement was that guards who can't shoot have to be uber athletic, or they can't play in the NBA. I provided a disproving example. There are others.

The point is, there are other traits that can get you a job in the League.
 
intlzncster said:
The talent is not there in the front court. It is not developed either. We are undeveloped (but talented) at the wing too.

Our hope is that the American is so bad that we can play our way in.
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In 2011 our front court was Alex Oriakhi, Charles Okwandu, Tyler Olander, and Enosch Wolf. We won a national championship with that front court. In 2014 our front court was Tyler Olander, Phil Nolan, freshman Facey, and freshman Brimah. We also won a national championship with that front court. Our guards are good enough to lead us to a tournament in 2019.
 
JimOllie said:
In 2011 our front court was Alex Oriakhi, Charles Okwandu, Tyler Olander, and Enosch Wolf. We won a national championship with that front court. In 2014 our front court was Tyler Olander, Phil Nolan, freshman Facey, and freshman Brimah. We also won a national championship with that front court. Our guards are good enough to lead us to a tournament in 2019.
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You left off two of our best posts! One in 2011, one in 2014.

A few points:

2011:
  • We have no one CLOSE to Oriakhi on this roster.
  • You are entirely leaving our Roscoe Smith who was really our PF that season. We have no one close to him either.
  • We had the best player in the country by a fair margin.
2014:
  • We had the best player in America during that stretch run.
  • We had a very, very good stretch PF in Daniels. Don't have anyone close to that on the roster.
  • We also had veteran help up and down the roster (at the wing and at the PF). Don't have anyone close to Giffey on the roster.
 
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