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Tinsley kicking out to McGee would be lethal but so would Tyrese finding Sullivan for wide open 3s with Burton and Fizer on the block.
Those might be our best two passers combined with our best two three point shooters...just going by eye test.
I'm usually pretty good at predicting our players NBA futures but Shayok is my biggest miss, I thought for sure he'd have a long NBA career. Seemed NBA ready immediately and he was always a top 5 player in G league when he was there, no idea why he didn't get more of a shot.
If you combine Fizer with any of our top point guards, and any of our top role players, that's the ideal team. We have a lot of great choices at 1, 2 and 3 (especially 1) but that's the clear guy you want for the 4/5 pick.
I think it's cause in the NBA, everyone can be a great scorer. It's pretty common that the G League players with the best counting stats don't get called up. They call up guys that can show potential to be good at defense and offense. Plus Shayok was very old when he went pro, which hurt a lot. Teams aren't willing to invest in older prospects.
Yeah I think spending all that time at super slow tempo Virginia did not help him for NBA prospects.
He averaged 9ppg in 20 minutes two years earlier at UVA which would have been 11ppg in almost any other offense coming off the bench, and he'd have started for almost any other team so basically he was a 15-18ppg player sitting there underutilized. It was totally predictable he'd score the 19ppg he did for ISU's uptempo offense with starter minutes. Crazy to think about how he also had to sit out a year. Seems like a totally different era but just 5 years ago.
If you imagine all of these players at their best. You can come up with an argument for any of them.
Team A would be more versatile than I initially gave them credit for.
Ejim, White and Brackins would be fun to watch together.
Team C has a lot of NBA players.
B has a weird makeup. Trying to picture Morris and Stinson on the floor at the same time. But Hogue, Shayok and Homan would be scrappy AF.
Team A would be more versatile than I initially gave them credit for.
Ejim, White and Brackins would be fun to watch together.
Team C has a lot of NBA players.
B has a weird makeup. Trying to picture Morris and Stinson on the floor at the same time. But Hogue, Shayok and Homan would be scrappy AF.
For the record, I went with team B. I think offensively they would be a force in the age of spacing the floor. But I could make a case for any of them, and I'm not surprised C is the popular choice.
I have cast my vote for Team B:
-Good old-school toughness with Stinson and Homan
-Elite PG play with Monte and I think he would mesh well with Stinson in the same way he meshed with Kane
-The best bucket-getter on the list = George’s Niang
-a guy in Shayok that can guard the oppositions best offensive big guard or wing
Bench:
-a microwave offensive spark in Wigginton
-Babb that can come in and effectively fill the role of Morris or Stinson without a huge alteration to the game plan
-Hogue the “do it all” that plays with a toothpick in his mouth
Intangibles:
-Elite trash talking with Niang and Hogue
-Elite enforcer in Homan to keep Niang clean
Weaknesses:
- 3 point shooting
-Rebounding and shot blocking. I would gameplan this team as an elite offensive team (top 5) and just try to keep the defensive number in the 70’s.
-feast or famine: I see this team as the likeliest team to be able to win it all and to flame out early in the tourney against a good defensive gameplan
The one thing that put me on Team B was having the elite bucket-getter of the list in Niang.
-Good old-school toughness with Stinson and Homan
-Elite PG play with Monte and I think he would mesh well with Stinson in the same way he meshed with Kane
-The best bucket-getter on the list = George’s Niang
-a guy in Shayok that can guard the oppositions best offensive big guard or wing
Bench:
-a microwave offensive spark in Wigginton
-Babb that can come in and effectively fill the role of Morris or Stinson without a huge alteration to the game plan
-Hogue the “do it all” that plays with a toothpick in his mouth
Intangibles:
-Elite trash talking with Niang and Hogue
-Elite enforcer in Homan to keep Niang clean
Weaknesses:
- 3 point shooting
-Rebounding and shot blocking. I would gameplan this team as an elite offensive team (top 5) and just try to keep the defensive number in the 70’s.
-feast or famine: I see this team as the likeliest team to be able to win it all and to flame out early in the tourney against a good defensive gameplan
The one thing that put me on Team B was having the elite bucket-getter of the list in Niang.