He was the starting 5 wasn't he? If they had a starting "5". Stevie Johnson was only 6'4 and he was the other starting big guy. When Rancik or Shirley were in I guess he would've been a "4" type player.
*** Official West Virginia vs #3 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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50% of those assists are just Mommy flicking jellybeans.
Right, but with his skill set in college, I would consider him a center while he was at Iowa State, if you had to label it. Mostly post up, guarded other teams centers, not a regular play initiator.
Royce, I would consider a PF due to his ball handling/play initiating even though he was similar in size to Fizer.
Can we talk Heise and Toure a bit -
Anemic stat lines - 4 pts/8reb between them.
However, I saw Heise had the best +/- on the team at +22
And Toure had a bit of reality smite him in the head with conference play but his def didn't drop off one bit and I never saw a hung head.
This is norm for Heise and as far as Toure, I think part of it was the fact there wasn't much oxygen left after the Milan/JJeff/Tamin show (heck throw Batemon in there as well).
Long story short - even a 'bad' game from these two is contributing.
Anemic stat lines - 4 pts/8reb between them.
However, I saw Heise had the best +/- on the team at +22
And Toure had a bit of reality smite him in the head with conference play but his def didn't drop off one bit and I never saw a hung head.
This is norm for Heise and as far as Toure, I think part of it was the fact there wasn't much oxygen left after the Milan/JJeff/Tamin show (heck throw Batemon in there as well).
Long story short - even a 'bad' game from these two is contributing.
Oh I agree. It seems everyone in the NBA can shoot. It's "Yeah, but what else can you do?"
Everyone on Otz's teams plays hard or they don't play, but Heise looked like Mr, Hustle out there.
look at where milan catches all those passes. chest high and right into his shooting motion.
Loves the two he faked, dribbled once to the side, and then shot.
Was literally saying last game “does Milan know what he’s going to do with the ball after he shot fakes?” and now he goes and does this twice. We’ve always known he can shoot but feel like there is a new dimension to it this year.
We will need others to continue to step up when other teams try to take him away. I’m looking at Batemon and Heisie to help with that. We need those guys to make teams pay dearly if they are open
pump fake, side step, swish milan is my favorite milan. it is such a '**** off, we are better than you' sent to the opposing bench.
Buchanan is perfect for what we need
Totally. And is for sure slows down the next close out.
When the other coach calls a timeout because of your assist, you are elite.
I am still drooling over this game.
First 10 min were meh- here we go again, probably win by 6-9 just because.
Then there was a 5 minute or so stretch where we just bent them over and it was doing everything - passsing, def, rebounding. It was something that I have not really seen an ISU team do before but we have seen the Kansas and Houstons do to us. This was different than the Houston blowout in KC - maybe similar to the Laugher in West Lafayette. It was just sheer will imposition on the other team. There we 2 rebounds during that stretch - one by JJeff and one by Buchanan - off rebounds - where they just ripped the ball away from WVU and you knew it was on.
I really think WVU felt like they had a good shot up until then and they might have.
After that they didn't want to be here.
I don't know if it was on command or if something just clicks and the team takes off but if we continue to see that, this is going to be historic.
First 10 min were meh- here we go again, probably win by 6-9 just because.
Then there was a 5 minute or so stretch where we just bent them over and it was doing everything - passsing, def, rebounding. It was something that I have not really seen an ISU team do before but we have seen the Kansas and Houstons do to us. This was different than the Houston blowout in KC - maybe similar to the Laugher in West Lafayette. It was just sheer will imposition on the other team. There we 2 rebounds during that stretch - one by JJeff and one by Buchanan - off rebounds - where they just ripped the ball away from WVU and you knew it was on.
I really think WVU felt like they had a good shot up until then and they might have.
After that they didn't want to be here.
I don't know if it was on command or if something just clicks and the team takes off but if we continue to see that, this is going to be historic.
Its antiquated and pointless to try and assign positions 1-5. He was a forward as was Stevie.
