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JWill has been awesome. He's also a very good team player and unselfish sharing the ball. Not going to blame him for other players not performing
This is a fair point. If the NIL is coming from Addidas, then it's not depleting our resources so maybe we do have a bit more money to offer than we think?
Well Cam left and didn't give us a chance to counter is the story reported. Paul was extremely overpaid
It still is a concern for me just how much NIL we have to offer to be able to land the type of talent we need to be serious contenders. Maybe players will take a slight discount to be on the Ace Dylan team thinking they can be part of something special
Your comparison should be in conference games with/without JWill.
In BIG Conference games the differential with JWill playing(9 games) vs. previous 9 BIG games without him.....
- Scoring increased slightly by 0.5 pg
- Opponent scoring decreased by almost 8 points per game.
- FGA decreased but FG% increased from .367 to .408.
- 3PA decreased by 3 but 3PT% increased from .283 to .304.
- FT% increased from .657 to .725.
- Offensive rebounds decreased by 2 per game - likely due to better shooting percentage.
- Defensive rebounds even.
- Assists increased by 2 per game.
- Steals increased by over 2 per game
- Opponents shooting percentage decreased from .444 to .408
- Opponents 3pt % decreased from .357 to .328
- Opponents rebounding decreased by 2 per game
- Opponent assists decreased by 3 per game
- Opponents steals decreased by ~2.5 per game
The actual stats that would better show JWill's impact would be the differential of the # of potential assists and # of open shots and turnover differential when he is on the floor vs. not on the floor.
Also - to the naked eye - the team seems much more in control when he is lead guard in half court sets vs. either Simpson or Davis.
No one begged Oscar to come back-- where does all this BS come from!?? He hated where he was.
JWill also brings a confidence to the team. You can see the young guys relax and play loose when he’s on the court.
We didn’t beg him. The point is we took him because we had a spot and at the end of the day, the last spot on the team will not be filled by someone better than Oskar so we may as well keep him.
I looked at P5 v P5, for the most part, the numbers are similar, although I remember steals as down. For the most part shots that were being missed by Hyatt and Davis are now missed a little less often by J Will.
I happen to agree/think J Will is our best guard, that doesn't say much as this point. Can he improve from here? I hope so, but he's already 21, maybe 22. Its as likely Simpson or Davis are better in two years at same age.
JWill is our best guard and it's not remotely close
It is very unlikely Simpson will ever be as good. Davis, who knows, he's a freshman with upside, but JWill's size and length allows him to do some things Davis can't
I'm not sure one can have a more incorrect take.
This is So true
We were 2-7 in the big ten with out Jwill and 5-4 with a chance at 6-4. Huge impact
No doubt a healthy Mag + JWill would've been even better.
Yeah, and look at the schedule before and after. We beat the one team worse than us twice, split with just as bad UMD, got Wisconsin on a five game losing streak, lost to Purdue by much more, lost to Nebraska who we had beaten. We've scored less than one point more against the easier part of the schedule.
Look, he's our best guard, but had little effect on overall team.
Mag may leave but can’t see him making money to go, with his injury problems, he can’t stay on the court, somebody tossing significant money at seems to be a stretch, if he just wants out no problem he will end up somewhere, Simpson may go as well, but a guy shooting 30% isn’t going to cash in.but he will definitely get fewer minutes.if he stays.
Probably one of the big men goes probably wolf, he gets more time down a level. Cliff gets nothing by staying, but he is not an NBA draft pick, maybe he has a shot at the G league but that’s debatable as well, if he really wants to play professionally it’s overseas, I just can’t see what he gets by hanging out at RU or or in another college program for a year
Probably one of the big men goes probably wolf, he gets more time down a level. Cliff gets nothing by staying, but he is not an NBA draft pick, maybe he has a shot at the G league but that’s debatable as well, if he really wants to play professionally it’s overseas, I just can’t see what he gets by hanging out at RU or or in another college program for a year
Yep, bad take. J Will is one of those players that makes everyone better and adds to every stat category on the team.
It would be nice if it were true. We actually pay slower and take less shots than we did before. We rebound less. He has had a positive effect on shooting %, although still awful. Think we give up more points now too.
He would have had a bigger effect if Mag had been healthy though.
It’s a bad take. J Will is a high level player that stepped right into the starting line up and was a huge upgrade. Once Mag left again the bench was not up to par. That had nothing to do with J Will. Why are you trying to knock one of our best players?
You are the one that is being unreasonable. Lots of words don’t hide your really odd takes.
Agreed on the strawman. Elite defensive players like Mag spend a lot of energy on defense. A lot!
Other than Michael Jordan, who are the elite defensive players that are are elite offensive players also?
You keep saying this. How do you know this to be true? Or are you equating not succeeding with not trying?
Everybody is trying to get in front of all those NBA scouts who are begging for access. I don’t think you understand the media shit storm that’s coming to NJ especially if your freshmen go nuts in that 2 million dollar Tournament.
Mag is not an elite defensive player, he's solid but not all B1G, 1st, 2nd or 3rd team. You're referring to him as elite is like saying he's Cliff or Caleb McConnell, he is good, not elite. Stop throwing around elite like it's some sort of validation, it's not close to reality. There's a large segment of college basketball fans that should
or need to watch more than RU games or even B1G games.
RU went with a youth movement in a transition year, counting on some younger players stepping up and had Mags replacement already recruited in Baye Ngongo. It was unfortunate that Ndongo decommitted, but thus is life in higher level recruiting, when the goal is to actually win as many games as possible. Anyone still arguing that Ndongo would not have played or started over Mag, simply doesn't watch CBB.
Fans who follow RU sports, are conditioned to losing or being average, and are always loyal to nice stories, good kids and players who don't produce on a consistent level or a level that wins games. There's nothing wrong with supporting Mag as we should any RU player, but the exaggeration levels is where I have to stop the silliness from continuing
Very simple…kids want to play with our 2 lottery picks to get exposure from NBA scouts.
Once they prove some winning ways the media coverage will be insane and scouts will be able to see other players on the roster also
Snagg's summary showed that we give up 8 points less per game with him playing. We get a couple fewer offensive rebounds which as Snagg pointed out is likely because we are shooting a better percentage with JWill than without. We are still scoring more, but only slightly.
Mag played defense at an elite level last year.
Not knocking, I've said he's our best player. His inability to shoot from the outside really just makes him an upgraded Simpson though. He dribbles too much. The team plays best w fast ball movement.
I'm not going to go back for the numbers, but its not true we give up 8 less, at least when comparing games against P5 teams.
Mag will end up at a very good program. It’s pretty obvious he’s done playing here.
Correct. He missed like half of the season, of course he didn’t make B1G All Defensive Team.
Can't see JMike leaving with Ace coming next year. If Simpson sees a bigger role for himself maybe he heads to Rider where his dad played?
Bigger question once season is over is does Knight decide it’s time to leave and takes his nephew with him.
I’ve been expecting knight will get a big raise to $1M prior to November. But I could see him using his leverage to reset and start somewhere else.
Hobbs loyalty to pike probably helps significantly in knights decision making process as he knows pikes job is safer than it might be at another program.
I believe Knight is Pikeill’s successor and he isn’t going anywhere.
Yup. You certainly know what silly is. Lololol!!!
My biggest disappointment was the total collapse of this team. Sure injuries are a big part but the lack of shooters really caused this. Why play D when your team can’t hit a 12 footer in the lane. Your inside B1GS getting shots swatted … pushed out… bullied. Here is an early prediction 21-11 before B1G tourney… Add 2 more before NCAA begins… add 2 in tourney… we make sweet 16 but 25-13 is our season record. Close but no cigar.
We agree on most things and I want Davis on any team I love but he’s a 8/9 guy on the bench . Simpson couldnt throw the ball in an ocean all season but at no point did Davis have the stretch of games Simpson had as a freshman. JMike is a defensive guy so clearly better than Simpson? Simpson had more rebounds, assists, steals. Ft % all by a nice margin. Both were bad shooting the ball. I understand the Simpson hate for how he shot the ball and am baffled but in no other aspect of the game was JMIKE better.
