Who is Going to be Braylon's Replacement?

[HW611]

I guess he will now get his chance to be that “stopper” that we haven’t seen yet. I’m rooting for the kid as I said but his nervous offensive ways need to improve and then he will need to stop someone. He seemed better 2nd half vs BC but we need to see a lot more so here’s his chance. I’ll take Stewie to begin this and see how he does first, lots for him to prove as well. Mostly consistency though as he’s shown he can be that guy on occasion. Will be fun to see who steps up.

What’s up Mau, I actually did some film review on Ross’s ability to stop people last year. That part I believe he does fine.

It’s his nervous Purvis offense that he has to fix. Hes worst than Andre on that end. Even though Andre wasn’t scared to fire up a 3. Looking forward to tonight’s exhibition against a quality opponent.

 

[Lafayette]

Stewart will start...he will have the most to gain from Mullins being out with Ross and Furphy maybe tied for next to benefit with more minutes than they would otherwise have.

If Stewart can engage fully in his minutes he wins the "who most benefited from this", but Ross if he can show he is our best defender and can shut down a player, then whatever he can do on offense is gravy. Furphy just needs to show he can handle his weight against D1 opposition but for exhibitions, I tend to think teams are 10% less physical due to the injury risk in a does not count game.

Coach's definitely are trying different combination of players and sets to see how they look mainly and are just letting their best players play. Reality starts on 11/3 not tonight.

 

[80shusky]

Now's the time for the five big lineup. If not now, when? Five bigs, crashing, their height, imposing, hands the size of tennis rackets, 35 field goals-all dunks (and one three from Reibe), flying like Pterodactylus, arms and legs and snot flying everywhere. Seize the moment. Go FIVE BIG or go home.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I assume Stewart gets the first crack at it. But it should be by committee including Ross and some 3 guard lineups. It's not like Mullins wasn't going to rotate with those guys anyway. He's not Karaban, he wasn't getting 30 mpg. Situational matchups and in game effectiveness will probably determine minutes. That's true even when he's back.

 

[superjohn]

I assume Stewart gets the first crack at it. But it should be by committee including Ross and some 3 guard lineups. It's not like Mullins wasn't going to rotate with those guys anyway. He's not Karaban, he wasn't getting 30 mpg. Situational matchups and in game effectiveness will probably determine minutes. That's true even when he's back.

Mullins would/will get around 30 mpg when he's healthy like our other one and done freshman wings in recent years. He's our most talented player.

 

[Samoo]

I’m rooting for Ross to get a chance to figure it out offensively so we can use him seamlessly as our defensive stopper.

Didn't have that on my bingo card...

 

[alphasigko]

I guess he will now get his chance to be that “stopper” that we haven’t seen yet. I’m rooting for the kid as I said but his nervous offensive ways need to improve and then he will need to stop someone. He seemed better 2nd half vs BC but we need to see a lot more so here’s his chance. I’ll take Stewie to begin this and see how he does first, lots for him to prove as well. Mostly consistency though as he’s shown he can be that guy on occasion. Will be fun to see who steps up.

Of course he looked better against BC, because the BC players were horrible. The proof in his abilities will be on display against the high caliber players in the upcoming OOC games. Hopefully he can rise to the occasion.

 

[mauconnfan]

What’s up Mau, I actually did some film review on Ross’s ability to stop people last year. That part I believe he does fine.

It’s his nervous Purvis offense that he has to fix. Hes worst than Andre on that end. Even though Andre wasn’t scared to fire up a 3. Looking forward to tonight’s exhibition against a quality opponent.

All good. But he wasn’t as good as advertised on the D end although neither was Stewart consistently. Again, both have a huge opportunity knocking at their door let’s see who steps up. Maybe the Taz Devil surprises us who knows? Against smaller teams Malachi and 3 guards may be our best option. We will see, like to see everyone step up big time to give Dan Hurley even more questions in a positive way.

 

[RuffRuff]

Obvious will be Stew and playing Demary/Smith in the back court together. I’m far more excited about the second option with this group as we’ve seen the first plenty and it’s an underwhelming dynamic with this roster.

This MSU game will he a good first look.

 

[navery12]

I suspect we'll see Stewart starting, I hope we see Smith starting. I like Stewart as the guy coming off the bench who knows he's coming in to score

 

[ctchamps]

Of course he looked better against BC, because the BC players were horrible. The proof in his abilities will be on display against the high caliber players in the upcoming OOC games. Hopefully he can rise to the occasion.

Smith, Mullins, Ball and Stewart were all assigned to defend BC's Hand Jr. at different parts of the game and failed miserably. They either let him score or fouled him.

The other players on BC are not good but Hand is a player. In the second half Ross shut him down completely. And he did it when BC was going on their run and had momentum.

I'm not going to proclaim Ross is our perimeter stopper based on one preseason game. But you're diminishing what he did in the second half. What we need to see happen is Ross continuing with this defensive effectiveness as well as his scoring. And more than that we have four players that need to significantly improve their perimeter defense. Otherwise it's going to be a long year.

 

[TheShot1990]

Triple bigs:
Rrezon, Reibe and Reed