Okay, maybe he should push away from the buffet a little sooner. He's got the thick body many of us posters have been hoping the Aztecs would find. It's a P5 body. If his head is right, and it must be because he starts on an under-performing but talented team as a freshman, he'll transfer a bit of that body weight to muscle next summer.
Terrible defender? No way. He's a freshman 3/4 of the way through his first season. He has great quickness for a human his size and is strong. I was at the Boise game and he was our best option on Chandler H. That's not an awful defender. He gets victimized sometimes, and he doesn't box out as well as he should, but he'll be fine. In a couple years, we'll be saying he's one of our best defenders.
He's taken more 3Ps than anyone on the team, and is making 36% of them. If the clock is running down and you had to pick one guy to take a contested three, wouldn't you pick him? Or at least consider him? He doesn't shoot from his waist as do Schakel, Watson and Montana, so he's capable of being effective from mid-range (and he's shown that).
No question he needs to reduce the TOs. Like many players, he needs to learn to kick out when he drives the lane and is doubled. That's a combination of court awareness and a hero mentality, and maturity should provide the fix. Hopefully the coaches will encourage him to develop that aspect of his game instead of eliminating it.
For his size, he doesn't mix it up very much on the glass at either end, and that's a deficiency he'll need to address or it will cost him playing time. For what it's worth, he's probably the only guy on the team who can get an offensive rebound and power through the trees to score and get to the line.
He's likely to be on the MW freshman all-conference team or will be strongly considered.
He's a stud. If our team was performing better overall, not many people would be criticizing his game.
Terrible defender? No way. He's a freshman 3/4 of the way through his first season. He has great quickness for a human his size and is strong. I was at the Boise game and he was our best option on Chandler H. That's not an awful defender. He gets victimized sometimes, and he doesn't box out as well as he should, but he'll be fine. In a couple years, we'll be saying he's one of our best defenders.
He's taken more 3Ps than anyone on the team, and is making 36% of them. If the clock is running down and you had to pick one guy to take a contested three, wouldn't you pick him? Or at least consider him? He doesn't shoot from his waist as do Schakel, Watson and Montana, so he's capable of being effective from mid-range (and he's shown that).
No question he needs to reduce the TOs. Like many players, he needs to learn to kick out when he drives the lane and is doubled. That's a combination of court awareness and a hero mentality, and maturity should provide the fix. Hopefully the coaches will encourage him to develop that aspect of his game instead of eliminating it.
For his size, he doesn't mix it up very much on the glass at either end, and that's a deficiency he'll need to address or it will cost him playing time. For what it's worth, he's probably the only guy on the team who can get an offensive rebound and power through the trees to score and get to the line.
He's likely to be on the MW freshman all-conference team or will be strongly considered.
He's a stud. If our team was performing better overall, not many people would be criticizing his game.
