Diakite is extremely springy and a great leaper. (Maybe those are two ways of saying the same thing.) He's the best run-jump athlete on the team for sure. The Hoos have a redshirt freshman named Francesco Badocchi who is extremely raw but supposedly that kind of quick-jump athlete as well. I believe he's currently out with a foot injury, so he wouldn't have been in warmups for you to see. The little guy, Kihei Clark, supposedly scored off the charts on the conditioning combine-type tests that Bennett puts all his recruits through - I think he had the second-best results of the Bennett era, behind Brogdon. I do not know what those tests are, but my understanding is that they're more quickness/shuttle-run type things rather than raw eye-test athleticism.
The FSU comparison kind of makes me laugh, because basically they're the other extreme. They look like the Mon-Stars out there, like a team you would design in a lab to be physically intimidating. They're a good team, but they're also the layup line All-Stars.
Interesting to see that take on Jerome and Guy. I know Guy got a lot of flak for the man bun, but I think the general consensus among other fan bases has been that he's the more likable of the two if only because he's smiling all the time. Jerome gets (not entirely undeserved) criticism for whining to the refs, but maybe he wasn't doing that as much last night.
