I went ahead and watched this one. As mentioned in the Quadir thread, the feed cuts out with a couple minutes left in OT, but Taylor was pretty dominant in this game. I think he played every single minute (seems like Copeland was pretty much the only one that ever got a break) and he "finished" with:
I mean more for the comp. I’m still high on Benny as well. Just wonder if they would have come in slightly more prepared had they gone elsewhere. But I guess you are right. If we have a pipeline to the postgrad team, I’d take Benny and Jesse any day. Others are pendinggggg
I do tend to watch these games and feel like these kids must not receive much coaching.
And the lack of effort in these games is astonishing
I think Benny only went to IMG because his school wasn't going to play their season due to COVID. The other guys went there to help prepare them for the college game. Theoretically, going to IMG should prepare them better than a traditional school, but I haven't seen the evidence of that based on their Grad Team alumni.
Help me to understand your post. Are you saying that Taylor is light years ahead of a guy that was first team all ACC? That carried us to the sweet 16 last year? I would love, love, love that to be true. But I doubt it. Or do you mean as a athlete? Help me understand. I am not sure that Taylor is as good a shooter as Jimmy. Let alone Buddy.
100% has to be strictly athleticism that he is referring to.
Probably referring to his development to this point versus buddy and jimmys at the same point. Freshman v freshman. Think he is indicating way more potential upside over his career then either Buddy or Jimmy.
Buddy was first team all ACC and that is an incredible accomplishment considering he was usually the worst athlete on the floor whenever he played. It’s a testament to his hard work and understanding of the game. Taylor is definitely a big step up in athleticism compared to the Boeheim bros.
He specifically said "even now at the HS level" so I think he was making the comparison to this past year's version of the Boeheims.
Yes, I was primarily referring to his athleticism.
I can only hope he can be near as good a shooter. Let's see if he is ever first team all league. I hope he is. Not many are.
He’s the freshman I think has the most promise of being a day 1 contributor, outside of Mintz. But he’ll still be a freshman. Buddy was the 7th man his freshman year. Taylor may need to start because we don’t have anyone else. It’s a lot to expect of a freshman. I really wish JB had the good sense to find a high level transfer as the starting forward to play opposite Benny.
Yep, a lot is riding on Taylor and Bunch. I’ve generally been more pro-Taylor, though I will say the larger sample size I was able to find of Chris Bunch’s numbers makes me feel at least a little bit better about him. Still isn’t great shooting percentages but over the larger sample size I found, he got up to like 52% on 2 pointers and 32% on 3’s. Not nearly as bad as his NIBC numbers were.
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