Rebounding is a skill set that Roberson (when he was on his game) had mastered really, really well. See 21 rebounds at Cameron. I haven’t seen those skills (yet) from Benny, hopefully he gets there if that’s the direction his game goes.
At SU he can be either. In the NBA he would really need to be stronger for pf, even for small forward he would need to get stronger. He's young, plenty of time to grow into the frame. He may be a work in progress, but he is the kind of player who will develop, get it and be a star. I would be surprised if I am wrong about that.
Hes been disapointing but im not ready to Jalen Carey or Brycen Goodine him
He hasn't given up and the coach and team haven't given up on him. Still a chance at a Disney ending.
Defensively he has been pretty good for a Freshman.
As the late, great Igor would have said, Benny's been Boeheimed. Not too many players survive that. Once he gets with his people this summer away from JB, he's long gone, especially if all three sons come back. He's obv smart enough to say publicly that all is well, etc. But nothing said publicly by anyone is to be believed at face value. I can just imagine what Igor would have to say about Benny getting Boeheimed.
The fact he has no one to compete with is JB's fault. Dont put all your eggs in the basket of someone who has not arrived on campus.
If Benny came in as a 3 star would you be complaining about him not getting playing time after watching his contributions early in the year? I think the expectations are out of wack for him considering it’s all based on his recruiting rating. He sometimes has a flash of good, but then he falls into the same bad we’ve seen game after game: hanging at the 3 point line, turning the ball over, taking bad foul line jumpers. Yes, other players do that but they also hit that foul line jumper, use their (limited) athleticism to get inside and play where they should be (JG and buddy outside, Jimmy somewhat inside, Cole in the corner, Jesse down low, Symir distributing). With Benny's athleticism he should be getting boards and getting inside, instead he constantly backs off drives and gets bodied down low by 3s who are 2-3 inches shorter than him.
I think this is a good point - watching his game I don't see how he was rated so highly coming in. It seems more often than not our highest ranked guys come in and don't look like they were ranked correctly. Obviously a limited sample size but his shot and handle don't look elite at all.
I actually think the truly elite guys almost always work work out (Flynn, ennis, fab, Richardson, Battle etc.) it’s those middle of the top 100 to low top 100 guys that struggle to adapt (which is expected honestly). They’ve hit some diamonds in the rough in guys like Quincy, Marek, Oshae who come in and compete right away but that’s out of the ordinary for 60-150 guys. I think JB does a good job with recognizing and preparing elite talent, but struggles to get those could-be-great guys to be truly special.
This is what makes it more frustrating, IMO.
Tough to say he's taking bad shots when he's taken a grand total of 24 of them since the start of December. Buddy has taken 33% more shots than that this week. Benny is however shooting a spectacular 100% from the line during that time though!
I believe the recruiting rankings are more NBA potential based than anything. You can see why he would be ranked high, based on a 2 or 3 year development path because if he can develop actual basketball skills to match the physical gifts then you have a helluva player.
Considering I only recall seeing him take it to the rim once despite his quickness being his best skill set, it makes his jumpers stick out more.
That's what it looks like. On defense he seems to like contact and physical play.
