You are correct, according to Girard’s bio from his Freshman year it says he enrolled in Newhouse.
Shame on JB that he was caught in a situation where he had to play a guy out of position for extraordinary minutes, whether he had better options or not. Any option off the bench would have provided a lift on defense.
They are marksmen, the usage is the question.
Good post! Exactly along my line of thinking. He has one more year. leverage it as a career launcher. He may try to play a few years overseas with Jimmer but prepare for his future life. I would give him the same advice I give my relatives and friends children as they prepare to enter the "job world". Find a career you love to do. It is a long difficult life, when you go to work everyday wishing you were doing something different.
Shooting percentage doesn’t tell the story with JB’s offenses. We’ve had few guys with great percentages because he would rather have his main guys take terrible shots then give the ball to the Tyler Roberson and Benny Williams of the world.
I've always been impressed with your ability to make the #s say what you want them to say. It's true he finished 11th in minutes at 34.7 but nearly all of the ten guys ahead of him averaged less than a minute more than JG. In other words his #s were essentially right in line with those other players. So yeah he was near the top of the ACC in terms of minutes played. You can go through D-1 roster after roster and most guys (even far more accomplished than JG) do not play 35 min a night.
I used to see Tyus’s folder in the iSchool’s sql server. Always wondered what kind of databases he was building. Maybe it was empty lol.
I think most folks need to be 40%+ (obv with volume) in college ball to be considered an elite three point shooter.
Fair point.
Tend to agree with your first paragraph but that's rather damning of JB, no? Which is my main point and not just a critique of JG. Btw by the end of the year Bennie Williams looked like a better 3FG shooter than JG.
Cj Fair shot 47% his junior year on two shots a game, elite?
Yes. I hated JB’s offense once the talent level decreased. We didn’t do ourselves any favors giving our teams good looks. Watching Creighton and Princetons sets last night looked like a different sport to me.
That's why I said "obv with volume".
I feel your last paragraph sums it up for me, along with the thought he was asked to play a role not suitable to his strengths. Simply a bag of mixed feelings on this as well as everything else since the season ended.
Who takes shots like JG and Buddy and shoots over 40% though?
I thought Loyer was a FR.
That probably encompasses over 1700 D-1 starters so the top 50 would be in the 97th percentile of all starting players.
Given his height and athleticism he has a much easier time getting off his shot than JG.
