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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2018026, member: 716"]
He's improved over the years, though he still does it sometimes.

I agree that it's weird and it's reasonable to wonder how that behavior isn't drilled out of a player long before now, but a lot of parties have had a hand in this.

It's inconceivable to me that any supposed high-level basketball player could come into college with such a flaw. What were they doing at his high school practices, eating pizza? Maybe dropping a shoulder into the defender gets buckets in Section III, but a center who brings the ball below his waist [U]every time he receives a pass[/U] isn't going to have offensive success in the ACC. Call me crazy, but McDonald's All Americans should arrive in college with better skills than that. I pity Boeheim and Hopkins being put into the position where they've got to clean up that kind of basic problem with a kid who's spent five years hearing that he's among the best in the country.

I don't know that we need a better big man coach in the way that many argue we do, but Syracuse could certainly benefit from some enhanced fundamental skills instruction. I hope we see an emphasis on that in a Hopkins regime.
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