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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2002681, member: 40"] Just stop. Here are Gillon's statistics for the year: [URL='http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/john-gillon-1.html']John Gillon College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com[/URL] 9.6 ppg on 48% fg, also shooting 48% from three point range. He's done that in just over 20 mpg. Per 40, that's over 17 ppg and 6.4 apg. Offensively, he's performed at PRECISELY the level that I "claimed him to be preseason," which is why much of the criticism heaped his way is off target. Don't believe me? Look at the advanced stats at the bottom of the page through 10 games, and then come talk to me about how well he's performed. They speak for themselves--I'm not going to bother talking you through them. Where Gillon has fallen short has been in terms of driving the team's execution of halfcourt offensive sets. I got nervous when he suggested in preseason that he'd never run a structured offense before. Huh? How is that possible for a fifth year player? And it sucks that it's taken him some time to figure things out. But as SoBeCuse observed yesterday, he's now making plays downhill, and doing things more purposefully off of the bounce. There are plenty of things to improve upon, but he isn't performing at nearly the level some of you claim. He makes two more of those driving layups yesterday, and half the board would have been wetting itself over how great he played. He didn't, and suddenly he's David Patrick. What's consistent is that this forum over the years has shown an alarming lack of acumen when it comes to gauging point guard play, and this thread [and your post] demonstrates more of the same. The offensive capabilities are there. I trust the data a lot more than subjective, knee jerk opinions that aren't rooted in fact, or take at face value the water cooler claims about him being "too small" to perform effectively, or that the jump in level of competition will preclude him from producing. Board colloquial wisdom generally doesn't amount to much, and often shows a glaring lack of perspective. Gillon is trending up. Now, we need Battle to follow suit, and the backcourt woes will be solved. [/QUOTE]

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