Yeboah > Eugene

[winfield102]

I liked EO while he was here. He worked hard to improve his game. With this year's team though, I think yeboah is such a better fit. He is what I was hoping EO would develop into.

We didn't need EO to fill the role he filled last year. Personally I wish we had doorson back for 12-14 minutes a game.

 

[NewJerseyHawk]

I have already stated countless times that basketball is a team concept and sport and we still have fans trying to determine who was the better overall player.

The better overall player does NOT always make a team better overall. Somehow, someway, fans view college basketball as some sort of all star roster where the more talent you acquire, suddenly makes your team better.....and it's simply not true.

It comes down to defining what role a player can fit into and sacrifice vs stats and shooting percentages when it's also rebounding defending and does your style fit the roster.

Teams in most cases improve more often when you subtract players or pieces from the equation more than adding to it.

The one thing that is important to establish in this season is how calm this roster is, when things have gone sideways. That is more a signal of how not that Yeboah is a better fit and player for how we play, but how the roster plays through mistakes.

I think there are characteristics that come into play with how 2020 recruit Mawot Mag plays the game, that are very similar to Eugene. What makes this transition beyond a Eugene or Yeboah discussion is first being able to find a recruit that plays with other scorers AND is already thriving on a roster in a role of "do it all"....

If you need a defensive stopper to hopefully cool off a hot shooter,.Mag will be that player....can switch on defense like Yeboah??? 100%.

Mag is going to be a blend of Eugene and Yeboah and already has a better shot than Eugene, just not as quick a release as Yeboah has.

This isn't a player comparison as much as recruiting for a role or fits on how Rutgers wants to play basketball going forward, first on the defensive end and spacing and able to drive or shoot from distance on offense.

It is not personal for me, but RU is now building a program, not a collection of talent that may not fit in the team concept. RU is a winning program now. That happened after the departure of what some fans believe is a better player. If this season isn't 100% proof that fit, role and how we play matters, then it's never going to sink in. Not all players have the ability to sacrifice for the team.

 

[brookdale-soda]

I have already stated countless times that basketball is a team concept and sport and we still have fans trying to determine who was the better overall player.

The better overall player does NOT always make a team better overall. Somehow, someway, fans view college basketball as some sort of all star roster where the more talent you acquire, suddenly makes your team better.....and it's simply not true.

It comes down to defining what role a player can fit into and sacrifice vs stats and shooting percentages when it's also rebounding defending and does your style fit the roster.

Teams in most cases improve more often when you subtract players or pieces from the equation more than adding to it.

The one thing that is important to establish in this season is how calm this roster is, when things have gone sideways. That is more a signal of how not that Yeboah is a better fit and player for how we play, but how the roster plays through mistakes.

I think there are characteristics that come into play with how 2020 recruit Mawot Mag plays the game, that are very similar to Eugene. What makes this transition beyond a Eugene or Yeboah discussion is first being able to find a recruit that plays with other scorers AND is already thriving on a roster in a role of "do it all"....

If you need a defensive stopper to hopefully cool off a hot shooter,.Mag will be that player....can switch on defense like Yeboah??? 100%.

Mag is going to be a blend of Eugene and Yeboah and already has a better shot than Eugene, just not as quick a release as Yeboah has.

This isn't a player comparison as much as recruiting for a role or fits on how Rutgers wants to play basketball going forward, first on the defensive end and spacing and able to drive or shoot from distance on offense.

It is not personal for me, but RU is now building a program, not a collection of talent that may not fit in the team concept. RU is a winning program now. That happened after the departure of what some fans believe is a better player. If this season isn't 100% proof that fit, role and how we play matters, then it's never going to sink in. Not all players have the ability to sacrifice for the team.

Spoken like John Wooden. This was long but worth reading.

 

[RU677381]

Let us be fair to Eugene. When he was on the team we had very few viable scoring options. If Pikiell thought he was disruptive to the offense he would have done something a la Mathis and Young. The fact that he did not needs to be taken into account.

 

[angmo]

Yeboah's from England, not exactly a hotbed of basketball talent. He must have gone under the radar of a lot of coaches.

Does this mean we are going to schedule a game in England next year?

 

[StyleKnight]

Some of the people disparaging Eugene are the same ones that were dispirited last year when he was injured. Now he's a bum who hurt team chemistry when he was healthy? If Cliff O signs elsewhere, are you going to say we didn't want him anyway; he's not that good? Geez. He was a warrior for us.

You’re either with us or against us.

 

[Scangg]

We could use him for 15-20 mins a night if he was willing to accept a role player role. He wasnt so hes gone

This. EO as a role player doing the little things and not having plays run for him could be a good fit. He got a taste of being a go to guy on offense and started thinking he was a legit offensive power. Hard to take a step back and reduced role. Not everyone is a Brian Leonard..

Also, suprising it was surprising to so many Yeboah is good.

Some even tried arguing relentlessly that he wasn't a good 3 point shooter either despite years of being a good one.

 

[BOCA93]

Bardo must read these boards lol. Just said on BTN pregame that “Yeboah is a better fit at RU than Omoruyi was”

 

[Caliknight]

This. EO as a role player doing the little things and not having plays run for him could be a good fit. He got a taste of being a go to guy on offense and started thinking he was a legit offensive power. Hard to take a step back and reduced role. Not everyone is a Brian Leonard..

Also, suprising it was surprising to so many Yeboah is good.

Some even tried arguing relentlessly that he wasn't a good 3 point shooter either despite years of being a good one.

The fact that Pike wanted him even when Oregon was here should have been an immediate tell as to how good Yeboah would be. He's the perfect grad transfer.