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Message: [QUOTE="retro44, post: 885403, member: 587"] just to put this in perspective here's a post of yours from March 15 raging on Cooney. Can you expand on this a little bit? I'll give you that you could make a legit argument Cooney is more athletic than McNamara, and probably has better size. At some point actual basketball ability has to come into the equation tho. As a freshman McNamara caught fire from behind the arc in a national championship game and was a huge part in winning the game for us, do I see Cooney doing that this year as a redshirt freshman(a year older than Gmac) ? Not even close. Do I see Cooney going off for 46 at some point in his career and almost single handedly winning us an NCAAT game? Nope. Do I think it is possible that Cooney makes huge shot after huge shot in the ACC tournament and leads us to one improbable win after another and saves the season? Not counting on it. So I'm just curious what makes you think his ceiling is higher, because for him to reach a higher level of play than what I just mentioned is a pretty tall task. It's borderline delusional comments like these that led to the overhype in the first place. Cooney is not McNamara and most likely will never be McNamara or Rautins. Rautins evolved into a 6'5 guard that could play point, was a great passer, and lethal from 3. I'm all for staying optimistic that he'll be able to contribute in the future, but this year hes awful. I agree that he still could become a nice role player in time, but he's only going to have to battle more and more guys for time as the years go on. He literally had no competition for his spot this year and couldn't beat himself out. And lets stop with the new popular defense of its all mental or he just needs to adjust to the speed of the game. He's been around 30+ games and had a year to sit on the side and mature and learn. I wish the best for him, it'd be in the best interest of the program and team if he becomes a great player, but lets stop with the excuses and blind defense of him. This year he was a bust and this off season needs to get better in many areas of his game to contribute next year, all there is to it. Now my op never got near as bad trashing the player as you have,and I can dig into everyone of the posters and dig up stuff. Do you think Ennis and GMAC play the same type of game of floor leadership ? And if you really read my first post I never said the kid can't shoot,dribble,pass defend but rather mocking out all the clowns who say the big ten is slower than Syracuse. That's the reason why I said he was a big ten guard. People on the B.B. are very intolerant of others posts if they don't agree with them. [/QUOTE]

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