You point to players you don’t watch and you openly admitted you don’t watch or pay much attention to other teams. This kid is a nice talent - he’s had one great game and one decent game while in both showing his weakness as a defender and primarily a finesse player who is not adept at getting to the rim.
So before we king this kid and claim we should have one of him , just as we should have a 7 foot center who is mobile, not skinny, good on offense and a rim defender and any others you claim we should have let’s see what a larger sample size looks like.
If we had this kid there would be a massive amount of posts pointing to his weakness as a defender and being too much finesse when as a team our goal is to get more athleticism, toughness and be more defense oriented.
ok...yeah all the players at this level minus the lottery picks have flaws in their games...so for all players (unless you happen to stumble upon a carmelo or a diamond in the rough...yeah...its about picking the flaws you are ok with and building around that)
im excited for what donnie brings to the table and it seems he will actually be the type 0f player Im talking about...likely even better than the guy on VA Tech when you factor in his all-around game...he seems to have made a big leap in the offseason (judging off the first 2 games this year)
i sense a lot of defensiveness and argumentative spirit in your responses - so lemme try to find a common ground with you:
my issue is not about this guy on Va Tech - although i do think he is an example of the type of player im talking about who many said doesnt exist - but im not really saying why didnt we get him
in particular
what I am trying to say: lets go after and
try to find skilled bigs in the future
thats it.
if not all 3 at least 1 of the centers on the roster that can shoot jumpers and play like a real bball player
does that upset you?
because it seems to me that a lot of orange faithful have become so conditioned to having centers and bigs that just play d and dunk and cant shoot
like at all...like thats
the ideal
as if these kinds of big men we have mostly had for decades...is the profile we should now continue to target.
im just saying in general that there are indeed big guys out there - esp in europe, it seems - that are very skilled and can play ...and I want the team to target some of these guys in the future!!! a lot of them in ncaabb aslo seem to end up at schools that SU should be able to outrecruit, imho
like, what is so controversial about that????!
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