Benny showed up today.

[OrangeXtreme]

Career numbers 24 & 9

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Get him 1 more board !!!

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Now SWC has something good to write about. Nothing else.

 

[Giants1973]

Why can't he play this all the time?

 

[FRANKIEFAN]

He still made plenty of boneheaded plays while the game was close.

But nothing wrong with looking for a silver lining.

Brown and Taylor dont look like they belong anywhere near an ACC program at this point I'm concerned about all of our freshmen TBH since Mintz might not return and I don't know if we can count on anyone else to be productive next year.

 

[CuseBlock]

Actually love to see it

 

[hoopsupstate]

I think Taylor got off two shots tonight. He played the first 12 minutes of the first half without a shot. You can not count on him to be the off guard next year. He can’t create at all.

 

[OrangeCrush22]

He just hit the shots he normally misses and got enough playing time to accumulate. Bad D. Poor decisions. He would be 10x the player if he drove to the rim and used his strength and athleticism.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Career numbers 24 & 9

I'd start him next game along with Maliq. Taylor wasn't ready for today.

 

[Grbac]

I'd start him next game along with Maliq. Taylor wasn't ready for today.

Maliq is in the dog house with Bell for some crazy reason. He probably doesn’t get many minutes at all to close the season. You hate to see it.

 

[two3zone]

He just hit the shots he normally misses and got enough playing time to accumulate. Bad D. Poor decisions. He would be 10x the player if he drove to the rim and used his strength and athleticism.

They left him WIDE open all game. He accumulated like you said, but he was so so so so bad in everything else.

I’m sure he’s happy though.

 

[Grbac]

Problem is next game he’ll probably shoot like 20% and score 4 points. He is wildly inconsistent.

 

[samspann1]

Problem is next game he’ll probably shoot like 20% and score 4 points. He is wildly inconsistent.

the only consistency with the program is the mediocre effort from the HC.

 

[Cuse181]

He still made plenty of boneheaded plays while the game was close.

But nothing wrong with looking for a silver lining.

Brown and Taylor dont look like they belong anywhere near an ACC program at this point I'm concerned about all of our freshmen TBH since Mintz might not return and I don't know if we can count on anyone else to be productive next year.

Brown is fine, he’s in a funk, players are allowed to have funks.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Brown is fine, he’s in a funk, players are allowed to have funks.

and waffles.

 

[orangefog]

I think all of our freshman can be productive players at this level. They need coaching. That's what we are lacking. Why can't Benny do this every game? He can get close, with proper coaching. We get outcoached by Jeff Freaking Capel, that is bad.

 

[DilemaCuse]

I think Taylor got off two shots tonight. He played the first 12 minutes of the first half without a shot. You can not count on him to be the off guard next year. He can’t create at all.

And somebody argued w me when I said he has to be wide open to get a shot off. The film don't lie.

 

[Jasoncuse]

I think Taylor got off two shots tonight. He played the first 12 minutes of the first half without a shot. You can not count on him to be the off guard next year. He can’t create at all.

Taylor has been such a disappointment. I guess he’s ok defensively but he brings even less to the table than Bell. He’s been window dressing basically all year. He’s so stiff and unable to do anything unless wide open that I’m not sure what to expect in the future.

Taylor at the top of the zone next year sure doesn’t sound like an appealing solution. And he really isn’t cut out to play here either.

This whole freshman class outside of Judah, and at times Brown, really hasn’t been good or shown much improvement. I guess that’s understandable based on rankings but it’s still worrisome.

 

[CardiacCuse]

Brown is fine, he’s in a funk, players are allowed to have funks.

scouting is so easy in this day and age...maliq had some good games before he was on opponents' scouting reports...JT too, somewhat...now, they have to adjust and up their games...but it takes time

 

[Day2]

scouting is so easy in this day and age...maliq had some good games before he was on opponents' scouting reports...JT too, somewhat...now, they have to adjust and up their games...but it takes time

I don’t think that’s it. I think he’s exhausted from playing too many minutes as a starter. JB was right to make him a starter, wrong to overplay him.

 

[SmilinBob]

Benny played like a player that stopped looking\watching for others to score and became a scorer himself. In a sense, it seemed like he was told to be the man and stepped up. I really think he thinks or plays into the role of a secondary or third option while watching Mintz, Girard or Edwards and looking to score as an afterthought. Not yesterday.

I hope he keeps this up.

 

[SU91]

I think all of our freshman can be productive players at this level. They need coaching. That's what we are lacking. Why can't Benny do this every game? He can get close, with proper coaching. We get outcoached by Jeff Freaking Capel, that is bad.

Benny is…not good. That’s why he can’t do that every game.

 

[realorange]

I have to SMH when some of you talk about how Benny is not good and why can't he do it every game.

I would agree he has been a disappointment for most of the season but somehow finally started to be aggressive and play a decent game. Was it without mistakes? Of course not, but it was a vast improvement over what we have previously seen. Certainly, the best game we have seen out of any of our forwards this year.

Hopefully, it's a building block for what we may see in the future.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

He’s shooting 37% from 3! That’s more than solid.

 

[Scooch]

I have to SMH when some of you talk about how Benny is not good and why can't he do it every game.

I would agree he has been a disappointment for most of the season but somehow finally started to be aggressive and play a decent game. Was it without mistakes? Of course not, but it was a vast improvement over what we have previously seen. Certainly, the best game we have seen out of any of our forwards this year.

Hopefully, it's a building block for what we may see in the future.

Meh. He’s our highest rated recruited in years and he’s been a huge disappointment. When you don’t recruit a lot of high impact guys anymore the ones that miss hurt especially bad.

I’m glad he had a good game. Everyone of the forwards has had a good game or two this season. The lack of consistency is a huge part of why we’re trending towards awful at the moment.