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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4486922, member: 966"] Maliq Brown had 9 in the first half. Finished with double figures, and no Playas re run for him. He just gets buckets. Efficient as all get out. And he’s not even as strong or explosive as he could be. He just ‘has a knack.’ Deciding on his minutes—yeah, he doesn’t have a jumper, but you can pretty reliably pencil him in for 10+ points in 25 minutes. Whereas with Bell, you might get 10 points on a mix of some threes and some air balls, and you might get 0 on just air balls. I kinda favor the more reliable points, combined with rebounds. Jesse, as good as he is, is just not strong. Doesn‘t look like he even lifts, bro. He ‘lopes’ and stumbles around in the paint. Plenty of headroom on his game. I want to see the next level for him, but I fear a plateau. That Collins kid…. As soon as I started wondering about how he might fit in with us, taking over for Joe as a transfer, he has a couple of undercut moves that soured me. One could be called incidental. The other… maybe, but that‘s still two. Uncool. But he’s a freshman. Solid, tough player. Benny…. Speaking for all of us[!], Benny right now is at the level we expected him to be as a freshman. He’s coming along, and it’s good to see the talent realized. The jumper is still flat, but it’s true, so…. He’s active. As the announcers kept pointing out, his reactions are “mature.” Lots to like. Not a dud. It was a 1-9 Monmouth team, but the signs are still there. Judah still reminds me of a rough-hewn Kenny Anderson. Not nearly as smooth. But the moves, and the posture are the same. Still lots of room for improvement, and yet he can still put up 20 without us feeling like he’s pressing too much or forcing things. Very difficult to get consistency from the non-core players when they don’t have consistent minutes or even contiguous stretches on the court. Justin gets 25 and then he’s a ghost. Brown had approx 13 tonight and maybe we barely see him the next game. JB is giving JBA run, but he got pulled pretty quickly, just after he had a beautiful 3-play sequence. JBA sometimes does obvious good things and sometimes not so obvious good things. He’s the quickest, most intense close out defender. He fights for boards, and even if he doesn’t get them, he’ll be part of the reason why a teammate gets them. I think he could be a good player. I hope he is expanding his own expectations. All that said, and we still were uncomfortably neck-and-neck with a 1-9 Monmouth for 2/3 of the game. Not great. Who’s next? [/QUOTE]

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