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Message: [QUOTE="SU_Fan_in_VA, post: 1025555, member: 3429"] RF2044, I am not trying to pick on you, but you always seem very complimentary of Cooney and critical on others, particularly those that are in competing positions with Cooney. And that is why I made a comment in jest about Cooney being your boy. That said, as one who became an SU fan primarily because of Gbinije and one that has a little more insight than most about his situation, I can say with a lot of confidence that you have not seen the best of Gbinije yet. You say you saw a practice or two early in the preseason and he did not look impressive. Consider this, a wide receiver gets recruited as a receiver and on the first day of practice the coach says to the wide receiver, son we don't have a back-up quarter-back, so I want you to be the back-up quarterback and run the the second team offense. The receiver had never played a quarterback position in his life.How do you suppose he is going to look initially? Anyway, I heard reports from people with connections to some of the NBA scouts that attended Syracuse practices this past season and the year before that at times, Gbinije looked like the best player on the court. So yes, I have reasons to be optimistic about what he is capable of doing going forward. I believe that what we saw this past season was a player trying to get comfortable in a new role . I heard from the anouncers many times this past season while watching games on TV that Gbinije does not know how good he is. To me that's a about lack of confidence resulting from his experience at Duke and so far at Syracuse. Although I believe that Cooney is a better shooter, for my money I will pick Gbinije over Cooney any day as a starter because I know he can give me more. However, when the coach tells you on day one you will be the back-up point guard and run the offense for the second team without any chance to compete for a starting job in the position you've played all your life, that can set you back a bit. One you learning a new position, and two you did not get a fair chance to compete for astarting job. That can mess with anyones confidence. I have read on several posts where RF2044 have questioned Gbinije's athleticism and went as far as saying that Cooney was more athletic than Gbinije. I don't have any information leading me to suggest that Gbinije is a better athlete than Cooney, but the attachment is athlethic performance measurements from the Duke board when Gbinije was a freeshman at Duke. As you can see he was tied in first place on vertical jump with the older Plumlee brothers and he was first on the other athletic performance categories. Compare those numbers with numbers from the NBA combine, Iwill say they are pretty impressive. Take a look. Stand still vertical jump: 36.5 inches Lane Agility: 10.51 seconds 3/4 Court Sprint: 3.13 seconds [ATTACH=full]10986[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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