That’s how it is now with the portal, you don’t have to have down years waiting for players to develop. You don’t really think we’d be a title contender next year by sticking with only our current players do you?
Get one post move that he can reliably make going left, and one going right.
You don't like "Samson?"
This. Its all we need
He is an explosive athlete but very raw skill wise. What id like to see from him:
#1 needs to be able to box out strong players and grab contested defensive rebounds
I agree, Samson needs to learn to play from the inside out. His current game is from the outside in. That explains his step behind the play fouls. Boxing out also assumes he starts the play in the preferred position, but so often Samson’s guy unfortunately is the one in position to do that. It is hard to box out a guy who’s starting point is being closer to the basket. True, much of this goes back to high hedging, something you can do at URI when most games you are not going against a good Big Man.
Yup. The kid is great at it and getting better all the time. His speed to recovery is tremendous. He will never be the wrench on that front, because the wrench had some instinctual ball hawking chops and great hands on top of the physical ability, but Samson really has been a plus defender in that specific area and will continue to improve.
I haven't read a single poster who wanted to deny Solo a chance to compete for a starting position. Where is that coming from?
He just needs to get stronger and more disciplined. A lot of his fouling issues occur because he isn't strong enough to hold up against big centers.
He started in place of Castle while Steph recovered. He was a true frosh and had some weaknesses, but the potential is there. Hoping for a big jump.
The only disruption to the game is putting your opponent on the foul line. When we disrupted our opponent’s backcourt via pressure it was done with Stephon, Hasson and Tristen. With Cam in the mix as well.
High hedging our bets
