The Ross Enigma
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..and then he follows it up with a stinker of a game against Georgetown. The reason Stewart is not getting more minutes, is he follows up every good game with a really bad one. Ross outplayed Stewar against Georgetown, but Ross shot still looking pretty rough.
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No. Mahaney gives us much more especially since he is starting to pick up his D. There may be a game where it makes sense to give him 10 minutes but not every game. IF AN gets a few meaningful minutes a game, he will improve. If it saves us a foul on Diarrra or AM , it's of value.
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Ross had a straight drive to the hoop for a slam in the 1st half but he just stopped driving and put up a brick! Really? He lacks BBIQ, I think.
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Head scratching. That sums up my issue with him, it’s like he panicked. There was no one within 10 feet of the hoop.
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Yet another game of nice progress for Ross and that only helps this team come, February March and April…
Im mystified at the people in this thread saying Ross’s shot looks horrible…it’s technically sound. He had three clean pretty looking threes today… One of them nothing but net, another one halfway down and rattled back out. A beautiful reverse layup. A great alley oop dunk as well.
And the best defense he’s played against a quality team so far…
Yes, he had that one crazy brain fart missed opportunity for a highlight dunk, but I’m willing to bet he may not do that again.
Let’s root hard for this kid instead of being d-bags.
Im mystified at the people in this thread saying Ross’s shot looks horrible…it’s technically sound. He had three clean pretty looking threes today… One of them nothing but net, another one halfway down and rattled back out. A beautiful reverse layup. A great alley oop dunk as well.
And the best defense he’s played against a quality team so far…
Yes, he had that one crazy brain fart missed opportunity for a highlight dunk, but I’m willing to bet he may not do that again.
Let’s root hard for this kid instead of being d-bags.
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He played a very good game today and after Nova it was good to see.
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My thought at the time was as that he expected a cutter and picked up his dribble but no one flashed to the hoop. He would have had an easy dunk if he kept his dribble. He was being unselfish—-but we want our guys to be very selfish when it comes to dunks.
Not sure if Samson or Reed was on the floor at the time but both are usually pretty good about heading to the basket in those instances.
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I don't think anyone is rooting against him, it's now just a calculation of if we still think investing major minutes in him this season will create some sort of defensive stopper by March, or if this is more of a '25-'26 project. If it's the latter, there's nothing wrong with that. I just think that with a lot of the Coach's comments in the summer and fall, we were set up as fans to expect quite a bit more from him this season.
While McNeeley is out, I'm all for letting him get a little more experience but once Liam comes back, we need to free up 30ish minutes from the current rotation and I think most of Ross's time will go towards that.
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He was made in a lab for that moment. The seas parted and he could have thrown down an absolute viscous dunk.
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First game where he didn’t hesitate. Except for that one play. I was very excited about that. As well as his defense of Peavy who is a senior.
He played 100 minutes last year. That compares with 329 for Stewart and 450 for Solo. Most of his minutes were in garbage time. He’s more a redshirt freshman than a sophomore experience wise.
One game is not a trend. Given most of the posters are from Missouri we’ll have to see if he can continue this development over the course of this season. But it was nice to get a glimpse of what Hurley sees in practice.
Ross’s shooting form looks fine, but he looks uncomfortable on offense. He has this manic energy and nothing is smooth. I am hoping it’s just a confidence issue, and after a good game or two he chills out and then levels up. Today was probably his best game of season.