OT: Another nice game by Simpson

[RedTeam1994]

You keep saying that without any support. That’s not fair. Who exactly?
Teammates who hate effort, hustle and defense?

And even sillier, it’s basically a whole new team this year. One player back from last year, JMike. JWill was only here for two months and Ogbole was hurt.

And Seems to me Mags giving up on the season and pouting Gavin were the problem children. They both fled rather than forced out. I have shown some support for my conclusion. Where’s yours?

Team chemistry comment grossly unfair and nothing to support it against Simpson.

He does that - makes allegations like that and never backs it up. Why? Because he’s full of it

 

[bitnez]

Derek was a horrible fit with Dylan because he always wanted the ball and Dylan should always have it. He was a better defender than JMike, but Derek would not have accepted or been happy in JMike’s role. JMike is averaging less than 2 shots per game over the past 6 games. Pike has gotten JMike to accept his role. That’s not Derek — if he had not shot in a few trips you knew a midrange miss was going up soon

 

[Yeah Baby]

Ill play

Simpson is a better defender than J Mike by far and can make free throws....i didnt think he would help the team and needed to go but I didnt know that Pike was going to do this poorly in the portal constructing a supporting cast and J Mike was going to be a zero this year. So yes in retrospect I would take Derek...however only on the condition he didnt shoot the ball which Im not sure he would accept that role

I agree if he played D and hit his FT's we would be a much better team with him. He seems to have accepted that role at St Joe's and when J Will came back he ahot much less here too. I was hoping his D would continue to improve because it was good to very good last year depending on matchups.

The problem with many (hint hint) is they build up players after great games and then trash them when they fail to meet that level every game. This goes back to Geo and RHJ too. A lot of regulars are guilt of this.

 

[bethlehemfan]

Simpson was absolutely brutal last year.

 

[seansherm]

Derek was a horrible fit with Dylan because he always wanted the ball and Dylan should always have it. He was a better defender than JMike, but Derek would not have accepted or been happy in JMike’s role. JMike is averaging less than 2 shots per game over the past 6 games. Pike has gotten JMike to accept his role. That’s not Derek — if he had not shot in a few trips you knew a midrange miss was going up soon

It's no different than JWill, who needs the ball to be of any use offensively. You do need multiple guys that can handle though. Derek has taken a supporting role on at St. Joe's, so we have no idea what he would have done here.

 

[RUChoppin]

It's no different than JWill, who needs the ball to be of any use offensively. You do need multiple guys that can handle though. Derek has taken a supporting role on at St. Joe's, so we have no idea what he would have done here.

He's taken more of a supporting role at 31 mpg in 11/11 starts (so says college-reference), and still has almost 11 FTA/40 min.

He's increased his threes and cut down on his twos (hopefully those bad mid-range attempts)... which we'd hoped he would do more last season, but never did. Hopefully he can keep that up through the rest of the year.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

It's happened before with players returning to previous schools. Uri's Sebastian Thomas is a good example.

He beat you guys bad!!!!!

 

[Jerseylegends]

It's no different than JWill, who needs the ball to be of any use offensively. You do need multiple guys that can handle though. Derek has taken a supporting role on at St. Joe's, so we have no idea what he would have done here.

Jwill just dropped 20 off of all hustle plays basically. He doesn't need the ball he's adjusting to his new role, some good some bad. I don't understand the premise of these Simpson posts? We already established that jMike is here and is friends with Ace. I think we all can agree that jwill is better than Simpson. So I think the whole point you guys are making is that people aren't being as hard on jMike as they were on Simpson?
As someone stated above jMike is avg 2 shots a game...he doesn't have the ball nearly as much as Simpson had it last year. So he isn't seen enough for people to criticize him although you guys manage to bring up any of his mistakes in multiple threads on this board in an attempt to compare to simpson.
Also who says Simpson would want jmikes role? 15 minutes and 2 shots a game? At this point if you guys are t Simpsons family, this has to be a new kind of troll lol I don't understand it .