Come on now we are going to debate Hyatt and Oscar ? You are better than that FIG !
GAME 10 LONG ISLAND: Fending off the shark nips
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Now you seeing the light. Mag makes everything better , spacing , rebounding , defense , freeing up Cliff both physically and mentally . The key going forward is whether we are going to see these lopsided rebounding games from our opponents or will that just be the bad stretch before Mag returned. Letting a team. get a second rebound and another shot and then a third rebound and shot is demoralizing and mentally will affect your offense as well. Wake Forest seems like a good example of this. Cliff has help on the glass and if Mag and Hyatt can normally rebound and Gavin finds a way to give us more than 1 per game and the guards help on the boards , we will win a lot of games and will be down to the wire in most of the others.
Actually he didn’t play either of them much but regardless, that was a different situation. Paul is 6-6 . Cam is 6-4. It was those 2 on the court with Cliff and Caleb most of the time. So Oskar slid in and replaced Derek on occasion and Paul moved back to point. That’s really how it went down.
Rebounding takes a pretty big hit when you play any combination of 2 of Noah, Simpson and Davis. That’s why I say realistically - Hyatt, Mag and Cliff will play a lot together. You can’t have Oskar, Gavin or Austin Williams in combo with 2 of those smaller guards and expect to compete on the glass.
Look at his stats. He improved year 1to 2, took a step back by 1.4% year 2 to 3, improved year 3 to 4 and year 4 to now. I would use his stats from last year and this year as an expectation for balance of year for 3 pt shooting as opposed to using 4 year old data.
He’s going to play for his rebounding. Mag won’t play more than 30 minutes so Hyatt has to be in the game every second Mag isn’t. Then - Wolf isn’t a very good rebounder either so when Cliff gets his rest we’re going to need both Mag and Hyatt. In the end, it’s going to be hard for Hyatt to see less than 25 or so mpg. We really need him on the glass.
Because there's a fascination that when Hyatt slumped badly at the end of last year and Oskar picked up some of his minutes happened, it's an indictment of Hyatt.......but when Mulcahy slumped badly for all of February and March and it took wayyyy too long to pull the plug on Mulcahy and go to Simpson, the season was lost......but we keep seeing Mulcahy and how he played last year, as some sort of net positive (which was very hit or miss or erratic at best).
I'd rather see acknowledgement of what's taking place so far this year and the team having 7-3 as a record, vs 6-4 last year.
If RU finishes at or with a worse record than last year, then we can discuss what did or didn't work well enough. All I can do is look at the actual results, not guesses or random efficiency stats, that don't actually translate to wins and losses.
Didn’t he launch a bunch of threes from 2 feet behind the line and hit? I’m pretty sure most of those would be considered good defensive outcomes by Pike.
Yes, after he made some from normal range. One was a good 6 feet beyond the arc.
I don't think Pike wants a guy 6 feet from the 3 point line unguarded after he has made a few from normal spots
do you think having the same ppg as last years bad offensive team, with a faster tempo is.. a good thing?
I think Paul earned a bit more slack then Hyatt. Paul has put the team on his back for stretches over the past few years.
I do think Pike, if asked in private, would regret how long it took to pull the plug on Paul.
I do think Pike, if asked in private, would regret how long it took to pull the plug on Paul.
I think Pike would be perfectly happy letting him launch from there all game. The dude is 22/70 from three and that includes the 4/8 from our game.
I would agree with this, but our adjusted “tempo” is only 2 possessions more this year (67.8 possessions per 40 minutes) than last year (65.7). You’re the stats guy - is this enough of an increase to undermine Hawk’s point that’s we’re scoring about as much as last year? (I don’t know, I’m just asking the question).
Not sure, but that wasn’t really my point. My point is just that last year’s team was not good on offense. So pointing out that this year’s team is worse (even if only slightly) doesn’t seem like a positive.
Your really grasping at straws here, man. Again, you know I’m not crazy about Hyatt’s game, but picking at his defense in the Long Island game is just tacky (for lack of a better choice word). He grabbed 12 REBOUNDS and 3 blocks in the game. No personal fouls. Also 3 assists and no turnovers, but nevermind the offense as we’re talking about D. I’m just not understanding how you could complain about him missing a close out or two on a kid not known for 3 point shooting with the type of game he had overall.
Gavin was only guy, to me, that was a liability on D. Prrtty sure #6 went off with mostly Gavin defensing him
Flux brought play up and not me.
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