What track record is that? If you're even mentioning Jaden Jones to Gavin Griffiths it's đź’©.
Come on man……you wasted a bunch of words when he put up the same numbers that me and you did, zero and zero, that’s not acceptable. Give us 4 and 5 or something at least.
I see regression with Wolf and that may be a huge problem next year without Cliff. Portal guy needed here.
Agreed. I really liked how we moved the ball around crisply getting him open looks and I like that he played with more fire than we've seen. Just wish that trey near the end would have dropped though...
Simpson did NOt have problems remotely similar to Gavin.
woolf has been a LOT better as of late. He is strting to board.
I liked what I saw from Gavin today, but 2 games in a row? Was non existent against Illinois and barely played
there were hints vs Illinois, no not a great game there but a needed step from his abyss, now a bigger step forward
Both have gone through stretches as true freshman in the 1st half of the B1G schedule (Jan. games) where they didn't play much because their play was not good. Doesn't have to the same problems.
Not remotely close to having the negative impact Gavin has had.
He would have had 4-5 DNPs. Coach has been forcing 4-5 minute stretches to check the box. He has been playing Oskar. That is your answer
1. Jaden Jones was on a team with Ron Harper, Geo Baker, Paul Mulcahy, Caleb McConnell, and Mawot Mag. That team had real players. You think Griffiths sniffs the floor on that year's team?
On TV, Simpson and Davis both looked good. Fernandes continues to be slow and small. Its like watching Old Uncle Jerry try to play ball with a bunch of much taller athletic 20 year olds. Painful. Very painful.
The problem is that playing combinations of Simpson and Davis or Fernandes just don't work because they are all too small and not skilled enough to overcome their lack of height. We have been spoiled by the run of nice sized guards who even if they were not great offensive guys held up well on the defensive guy. Again poor roster construction for this year.
How is it poor roster construction when two guards left after the portal closed because the NCAA still allowed grad transfers to leave at will?
Cliff got a GREAT feed from Gavin in the paint, drawing the double-team as Gavin's guy fell back to help, and leaving GG wide-open out on the right wing (which he loves). Cliff should've went back out to him but, instead, tried to dribble through the double-team and IIRC fumbled the ball out-of-bounds. I think - THINK - we were down 5 at the time? Maybe 6? Could've been a HUGE 3 right there if Cliff goes back to him. THE RAC was ready to EXPLODE at that point.
Agree with this wholeheartedly. Also time to say "Oskar. I luv ya' kid, and you've been exactly the type of kid I want in this program, but we've got to look to the future now."
Glad you brought that up. Was screaming at the TV, “Give it back to Gavin!”
Didn't Pike already agree to take Fernandes before it was clear that Paul was not coming back? IMO he has not worked out. Not sure what the thinking was with regard to Cam, Derek and Fernandes in the same backcourt. Was JMike a take based on his stand alone ability or as an accomodation to Ace for next year? I have no issue with the kid's effort and tenacity but again he is not bringing much to the roster that was not already there from a size and skill perspective. He may get better but I think most thought he would red-shirt this year.
Yea it was the little things for me more so than anything that shows up in his statline. He just looked a lot less deferential. He fought for rebounds, he called for the ball, when he had the ball he looked like he actually wanted it instead of looking to unload it as quickly as possible. There was one play in the first half where he came flying in to grab a defensive rebound and was trying to rip the ball away that really stood out to me because it was an aggressiveness I hadn’t seen from him before.
Noah was good at UMass. He's dramatically underperformed expectations this season.
My thinking was that if we got everyone's 50th percentile outcome for all of our players we'd be a bubble team and it'd come down to which close games we won or lost. We've gotten a quite good outcome from Hyatt (85th percentile, maybe) and it's hard to come up with another player who is playing above my perceived baseline. I guess Austin Williams, but my baseline for a Hartford transfer coming off an achilles injury was very, very low.
Fernandes transferred around April 21st. Cam & Paul left late May / early June, respectively. They were all supposed to be in the backcourt with Simpson & Davis. And no, Davis was never redshirting. He was getting minutes regardless to acclimate to the college level same as Simpson the year before.
