Okay ... so ... lots of posts talking about how Ogbole will continue to be a liability - and how this scrimmage "confirms" this.
I post 2 items here:
1)
A link to my conclusions, and the entire thread on that subject, after I charted every RU defensive possession vs St. John's:
https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/t...ge-every-defensive-possession-charted.283494/.
2) An
excerpt from my initial post in that above thread, my paragraph JUST on Ogbole:
"Ogbole was much better than the average fan will think. I will bet you the coaching staff will evaluate Ogbole's game vs St. Johns very differently and much better than the casual fan. For example, I will note that St. John's
Ejiofor scored 19 2nd Half points - but other than the 2 minutes BTN+ did not show (during which St. John's scored 4 points),
Ejiofor only scored TWO points when Ogbole was in the game ... that's right ... just 2 points. In the
1st half, Ejiofor scored 6 points total, but just 2 points while Ogbole was in the game ... and that FG was when Derkack got caught covering Ejiafor on a switch: Ejiofor posted, missed, got his own miss and put it back in. So ... when Ogbole was in the game, during his 21 minutes of playing time, Ejiofor scored just 4 points (though he may have gotten 4 more in the 2 minutes missing from the BTN+ replay). Ejiofor DID get some offensive rebounds when Ogbole was in the game,
but Ejiofor NEVER scored himself off those offensive rebounds - Ogbole successfully contested and prevented the put back. I am not saying Ogbole is a star. nor that he did not make mistakes. But I am convinced upon charting the game that Ogbole was MUCH better than I thought initially. I would add that Ogbole reliably ran the floor in transition, on both offense and defense - and never got beaten down the floor by his man, and several times beat HIS man down the floor on offensive transition.
As a sub-commentary: Ogbole showed more often than not he knew where to be defensively (not perfect, but relatively solid, IMO). Still, Ogbole DOES have a lot to learn - not trying to minimize that."
Ogbole is not necessarily where I hoped he would be, true enough. Was not quite as strong rebounding as I had hoped. But he HAS improved, performed credibly (even if he needs to continue to improve), and is NOT clearly a liability - not yet shown, at least. Ogbole was NOT the problem with either the post defense or the lack of offensive rebounding vs St. Johns.
