11-23-2020, 11:09 AM | #101 | |
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With lots of new faces and freshmen, I think it's going to take a bit for us to really build into a solid team. But this year we don't have a lot of time to work out kinks, it's almost straight into the fire. |
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11-23-2020, 11:26 AM | #102 | |
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Along the same lines I don't know about the Gabe and Mason thing. Again, CJB will let them know what each player has to do to get in the game. Gabe will adjust his intensity on D if he wants to play. I could see a scenario where he puts them in the game for heat checks and see who's knocking down 3's. He has the bench this year to use if players are taking plays off. |
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11-23-2020, 12:16 PM | #103 | |
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The question I have is what position does Rap play, here and in the pro's? It's hard to see him as a 4 at any pro level and Brannen has talked about Rap playing Vogt tough in practices. Rap definitely has some effort/intensity issues on defense, but mobility and size wise he seems well suited to playing center. It's hard to see him as a PF at a higher level. I'm excited to see the answer when we actually play a game. I could see the minutes breakdown being something like Vogt 20-25 (at center), Rap 20-25 (15-20 center, 5-10 at PF) and Diarra 25-30 at PF (depending on development of Eason/Davenport). Essentially Rap/Vogt would share duties at center, but play together with Rap at PF for 5-10 minutes each game to give a change of pace. Diarra would start at PF with Vogt and play some sort of hybrid with Rap (where either play could be at center/PF at any given time of defense depending on the situation). Of course that depends on Diarra playing the 4, something he struggled with last year. But it seems like the most sensible rotation based on the players we have. |
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11-23-2020, 01:28 PM | #104 |
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I have zero expectations for this season.
So I’m 100% less focused on wins & losses and more focused on growth. I wanna see better defense, a flowing offense and growth from our young guys. I do think playing Rap and Vogt at the same time is going to be asking for problems defensively. Just need to score more than the other team when those guys are out there. I think rebounding will also be a sore spot for those two guys. By mid season I’d like to see rap paired with Dou and Vogt paired with Tari. I think it will makes us more balanced. Guard wise, Zach Harvey is the guy I’m expecting big growth from. I want to see him shake those freshman jitters and just play. I don’t have huge expectations from the freshman. We need them to help but we don’t need them to be great. With DD, KW, MAW, & ZH, that should be enough to hold down a long of minutes. |
11-23-2020, 01:31 PM | #105 |
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But I am also excited to see Keith Williams get the keys to the car.
I went back and watched the @USF game and he was brilliant in that comeback. When he believes in himself, he can be unstoppable with his athleticism. |
11-23-2020, 03:47 PM | #106 | |
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I would agree that Vogt and Eason or Rap and Dou give us the best motion offense while giving us some perimeter defensive options at the same time. Rap and Dou would be something Brannen could really run everything with. Vogt limits our options but sometimes we will need that inside presence. |
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11-23-2020, 03:51 PM | #107 |
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If Keith goes all out this year he will be first team with an outside shot to get CPOY. He will likely make some bonehead plays by trying to do too much at times but he's good enough to make big plays for us. The key will be his willingness to assist his teammates and not have a one track mind. Cumberland was always a willing passer. Keith will need to do that as well. He should get 3-4 assists per game.
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11-23-2020, 03:54 PM | #108 | |
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11-23-2020, 04:56 PM | #109 |
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Rick Barnes and multiple other "personnel" for Tennessee tested positive today. That could potentially include players. Two of their games this week have been cancelled. We'll have to see if our matchup with them is affected, which is nearly 3 weeks from now.
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11-25-2020, 10:21 AM | #110 |
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Brannen, DeJulius and Rap had a press conference recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQoXkxVOnQ4. Not much new there, Brannen talked about the struggle of not playing another team. He says that the rotation isn't really set and he needs to see how guy perform against competition. Sounds like we will go pretty deep in our first few games just to try to figure out what works. DeJulius and Rap had a lot of praise for a lot of guys. It seemed like Saunder's - extremely fast - and Eason - extremely athletic, good defender, can handle like a guard and shoot the three - got the most praise among freshmen. Rap talked about personally needing to improve at defense, said it was never a point of emphasis at Colgate. Said - as a number of us have already speculated - that there will big a lot of options among bigs, with Rap/Vogt being the big/tough offensive guys and Eason/Diarra being excellent athletic defenders. He also said Eason and Diarra are very physical as well, said Diarra might be the most physical guy on the team. DeJulius said that we've been mainly working on defense. Said Brannen trusts that they can play offense and doesn't need to teach it, so the focus is heavily on defense. According to Brannen we are a young team with a lot of new faces. Said he needs to see us play against real competition before he knows how good we are. |
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