ISU MBB player break down following KU game (LONG)
Diante Garrett - This kid has all the necessary tools to become something special. Currently 1 of 2, maybe even 1, players that can create his own shot. Once he figures out when to drive, when to pull up, and when to get the ball down low he could be a solid PG or off guard in the B12. He also double teamed the bigs well and seemed to have quick hands all night
Brian Petersen - He knows athletically he isn't in the same league as the people he goes up against, but goodness gracious he's a competitor. Good spot up shooter, and probably the highest basketball IQ on our team.
Sean Haluska - See above, except add tough defense and the ability to shoot on the move.
Wesley Johnson - The kid should have been playing the 3 or 4 all season. He's not quick enough to guard the 2 and when he plays 3 and 4 he can exploit the defender by shooting the deep ball. Anyone else notice how much better he played in the second half when we moved him to the 4? He can defend better, rebound better, and exploit his defender on offense. I think next year we will see him predominantly at those positions.
Rahshon Clark - Does what he needs to do to help the team win, or in this case be competitive. Guards the most explosive guard on defense and rebounds well. Yells at team mates when he needs to and always has a smile on his face... man I'm gonna miss that kid.
Craig Brackins - Gave us some things to look forward to after Baylor, went into a slump, but is slowly working his way out of it. Had some good rebounds, played good defense for the most part, (I'll get into more detail about this later), and had a couple nice post moves.
Alex Thompson - Didn't play a lot, but is our best post defender flat out. Really hope he can develop some more post moves in the off-season as we are going to be relying on him a lot down low next year.
Jiri Hubalek - I still think he looks incredibly goofy on offense all the time, but he flat out gets it done. He draws double teams and opens up the floor for the rest of our players. He rebounds, can take deeper shots and with out him we would have little to none as far as points in the paint. If we didn't have Jiri teams would just crowd the lane and we would have absolutely no offensive rebounds when we missed, so yeah he is a huge part of "us."
I know some other guys played, but not significant enough to go into detail.
Now as far as the whole team is concerned. Our post players are not good at help defense. Thompson is the only one that understands how to slide over and stop penetration... Craig and Jiri both seem to struggle there. Our guards are definitely improving. As we get more talent in those positions we will be able to penetrate more and hopefully we have a shooter (c'mon Lucca don't let me down) to kick it out to. Keep your head up everybody we played better than a stacked Kansas team in the second half.... just not better than they played on us in the first. Did I mention how much I miss Jared Homan..... :biglaugh::biglaugh:
Keep your heads up CycloneFanatics.... the future looks so bright I need to put my shades on.
