This is just silly. Goodine’s defense alone was worth giving Buddy 3 more minutes of rest. And that’s not even bringing up the fact all three were superior rebounders.
Goodine was far too passive on offense. Being a man down already for half the game, every game, because of big man foul trouble we couldn’t afford to be playing 3 on 5 on offense. Jim chose scoring over defense because he hardly had a choice
Spot onFixed!
First, my fix is likely quite true.
Second, Buddy is one likable kid. Off the charts likable, and I'm glad he's here. Much like Mookie Jones before him, I love me some shooters!
Third, the kid is pretty limited. Insanely limited up to this point in his career and his minutes make no sense on any justifiable level.
Fourth, are we really not recruiting any shooting guards until he's gone? He's not very good for a SG at most things that don't involve three point shooting. Perhaps none at this point.
Fifth, he's far exceeded expectations and should be roundly applauded by all for the strides he's already made!
Sixth, those strides have allowed him to reach the point where you could probably easily justify him averaging 20 minutes per game, or maybe even more!
Seventh, I mean, if your starting shooting guard, at this point, still tends to recoil in terror from hard pressure or a double team, and dribble backwards (like the kid that got cut trying out for your JV team in HS), and then just tosses a bounce pass to the other team - you got a shooting guard that can't play 40 MPG.
Eighth, if he gets much, much, much, much faster and athletic perhaps he can be a serviceable 35-40 MPG type guy.
- Best example of this late in the season was the first UNC match-up
Ninth, he's not going to get much faster or athletic. At least I doubt it happens.
Tenth, we have to hope Kadary and Griffin are stupendous, or we may be in some trouble for at least a couple more years. A super dynamic PG/SF can offset a lot of Buddy's limitations. JGIII and an Eli-Light, cannot.
Advance stats shows Goodine was equally as bad as Buddy on defense.
Goodine had multiple chances to show he deserved minutes. Outside of a game winning layup he did little
Those are useless. I know what I saw.
LOL. They did recruit over him. Jalen Carey and Goodine were both rated in the top 100 and Buddy was somewhere around 250. The plan was never for Buddy to play 40 min and be our 2nd leading scorer. He was going to be a kid that could shoot at a great clip and come off the bench and play 15-20 min a game. The failures of all these other kids but Buddy in this position. Blaming Buddy doesn't make sense.
You saw Goodine play? Can you send me the clip. In all seriousness I really was disappointed in Goodine this year. I was thinking he could come in and contribute. In the minutes I saw him play against UVA in the first game of the year (only game I saw in person) it was painful to watch. He looked lost and I thought to my self oh my god we are in a lot of trouble. As the year progressed I would have liked for him to get like 5-10 min a game but I get why it didn't happen based on what he had showed.
Very nice letter by Buddy.
Someone put up a stat to that he already has more 2 pt FG than Andy Rautins for his career. Much more than just a spot up 3 pt specialist.Fair enough - he's a 38% spot-up three point shooter.
So, feelings!
I think he's likely better than that as well if we're being honest, but he also has a pretty low-level of difficulty on his threes, as he's mostly just a spot-up guy.
Syracuse people are, by nature, negative. The county even commissioned an economic study, which found the attitude of our citizens was one of the biggest obstacles to economic recovery for the area. It's the lack of sunshine, IMO.
I know what I saw and the stats clearly back that up. But your eyes are better than the guys breaking down film. Laughable.
Feel free to comment as much as you like. I'm still waiting for the first actual bit of hoops knowledge you contribute here. Haven't seen anything but being a Boeheim cheerleader. Which is fine. You do you. I know that my opinion about Buddy's defense has been confirmed by multiple very smart posters here.
Yes the other ACC coaches will nominate Buddy as a favor to their friend JB
Same reason Few offered Buddy a "schollie" that he knew he was never going to accept.
I never said Buddy’s defense was good he is in the 23 percentile. Just stating that Goodine is equally bad. And for the record Goodine is 7 percentile on offense extremely bad.
Great. Good stuff. Really interesting.
Buddy ACC player of the week. Voted by 15 member media. Jim must have a lot of friends in the media also.Yes the other ACC coaches will nominate Buddy as a favor to their friend JB
