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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 3360962, member: 1674"] Was watching some full games of Woody Newton's today and that included the game against Kadary and Brewster Academy (link here: [MEDIA=youtube]-nX1rhy1rSQ[/MEDIA]). It's the only full game of Kadary I've seen so far but if I tracked his stats correctly, he finished with: 9 points 5 assists 2 rebounds 0 blocks 1 steal 2 turnovers 0 fouls 3/6 from inside the arc (3/5 at the rim, 0/1 from mid-range) 0/1 3 point shooting 3/4 free throw shooting Some notes from the game: [LIST] [*]Brewster has the 6'0" Jamal Mashburn Jr., but Kadary operates as the point guard. Having said that, he's not a ball-dominant creator; pretty much everybody on that team splits the role. Kadary just happens to be the guy dribbling the ball up the court before they get into the offense. [*]The glass-half-full people will say Kadary operates at his own pace, ala Tyler Ennis. The glass-half-empty people will say he's slow and methodical to a fault. At any rate, really impressive ball-handler for someone his size. In particular he has a killer double cross; he'll kinda hang the initial crossover out there for a second before crossing back and exploding by his man. [*]In addition, he displays some really nice passing vision. His ball-handling and passing ability might be enough to play PG at Syracuse, which would be ideal because... [*]His jumpshot looks rough. He only took two of them in this game, but it's not pretty and neither of them really had a chance of going in. Obviously a very small sample size, but the commentators also noted that even at the college level, he might be considered a non-shooter, in which case it would be ideal for him to be the PG so that the other guys can provide spacing off of him/so that he's not just sitting in the corner letting his man sag off and cheat the passing lanes. [*]On top of being 6'6", he's just a big dude. If he gets a full head of steam and rises up at the rim, he pretty much just moves people out of the way like they aren't even there. Not sure how much he weighs, but seems like from the moment he steps foot on campus, he and Guerrier will be our physically strongest players. [*]Defensively, he might have a problem keeping quicker guards in front of him, but he seems pretty good. Certainly an upgrade over our current guards in that regard. Additionally, he seems to have great hand-eye coordination with the ability to pick pockets that we seemingly haven't had at the top of the zone in awhile. [*]However, like Newton (and most high schoolers) he tends to get lazy when he's off-ball and rarely shows effort to rebound. [/LIST] All in all, I think he has a much clearer case for playing time as a freshman than Newton does. Some rough edges to be smoothed out for sure, and some improvement as a shooter would be greatly appreciated, but he seems relatively ready to play from Day 1 and having watched a full game of his, I'm not as nervous about the PG position as I thought I would be. I'm what I would call a cautiously optimistic fan, but if he can become even a below-average shooter, I think we might have something here. [/QUOTE]

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