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Message: [QUOTE="rrlbees, post: 2392843, member: 96"] I had the good fortune of having the Uber courtside seats (thank you!) and can add a couple things. First, there is zero doubt Frank is the leader of this team. From getting guys into the right places when someone wasn’t, to the on court encouragement when someone made a mistake, to the calm words and pat on the back on the sidelines after a player got chewed out by JB. He’s really stepped up into that role. I remember an article a couple weeks ago where the frosh mentioned how much Frank was helping them in practice. Second, up close and personal you can tell he exudes confidence and a certain calmness. Moyer and Brissett are the rah rah types whereas Frank is the quiet confident type. You need both. As to his game, I can’t remember the last time we had a PG that penetrated and took and made so many pull up jumpers. And with Battle doing the same at times, it’s amazing we have two guards doing that. We’ve all seen guards make the occasional no look highlight pass. But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a no look alley oop. Was a great play right in front of me. Frank played very very well Wednesday night. Except for finishing another 1-2 drives to the basket and maybe making another 3, I’m not sure he can play much better. He’ll have more games like that and he’ll have games where he is “good”. But like all players, he’ll have some off or “bad” games. They all do. Before he got hurt Tyus wasn’t having a good game. I just hope when Frank has a bad game people don’t start jumping all over him. He’s going to have many more good than bad. One note on Thorpe. He showed no lingering issues with the ankle sprain, making many hard cuts and sprinting full speed up and down the court. But what I did notice was that he still doesn’t seem completely comfortable in the offense. A couple times during set plays, Frank had to tell him where to be. If he’s having to think too much out there, it’ll impact how he performs as he’s not just “doing”. He’s going to be fine and will be a key contributor. BTW, sooooo happy for Moyer. He was having fun out there. BTW2, biggest concern IMO is the free throw shooting of the bigs. Gonna cost us 3-5 ppg if it doesn’t improve. [/QUOTE]

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