So many people writing Solo off, it feels. That only means he will go for 20 and 8 tonight.
Talen Horton-Tucker next year
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The way that I think KU will sell out to stop Donny J it could easily happen.
I'm an extremely busy man, but I went and looked up his three point shooting from the cap city league
1/5
3/8
2/6
0/5
0/4
1/2
2/4
1/6
25% for the season, not exactly setting the nets on fire
I seriously doubt he supplants Solo in the starting lineup but if he's legit B12 talent, it will be nice to have some depth on the interior. It will allow all involved to be more aggressive rebounding and defensively.
Meaning playing against Big12 competition and with a college three point line would probably lower that number.
Maybe, maybe not. I think most of our guys shoot a pretty bad % in the summer league because they jack up a lot of bad shots. I would be surprised if Naz shot a higher % in the summer league than he did during the season.
His 7 for 39 at Nebraska doesn’t suggest it’s inaccurate.
He’s not a three point threat, although I’m sure he’s working on it this year.
Like I mentioned, I'm very busy but I went back and looked at Naz's 3 pt stats in his final CCL season
4/8
2/11
2/10
10/30 (Holy chucker batman)
8/26
3/18
11/26
31% for the season.
I needed to be right about something so here are Georges' 3 pt stats his last year
4/12
7/12
5/13
10/17
2/2
4/10
4/10
47% for the season.
Clearly Naz is a gamer that needs real competition to play his best but Georges dominates the weaker competition. Obviously Jacobson is like Niang in this regard.
We've got 6 spots pretty much locked up from playing time with NWB, Wigginton, and Shayok in the back court and Lard, Young, and Jacobsen in the front court.
Assuming we go 8, maybe 9 deep, that only leaves 2-3 spots for potential playing time. With the hype THT is getting I'd guess he gets major minutes as the first guy off the bench in the back court at the wing. Seems like Jacobsen will likely be first off the bench for the front court. So I'd guess the remaining PT will go to other back court players.
It'll be interesting to see how gets the PT in those last few spots. I think Halliburton and Conditt are likely to sit the first year minus scrub minutes in non-con. Long will be a junior with 2 years under his belt, he works hard but might not have the talent to beat out others. Lewis seems to have more upside than Long and will have a year in the system. Then there is Talley, who I'm not sure has enough versatility to fit into what we want to do on the court, and then Griffin seems to be a raw talent but is highly rated. Its going to be exciting to see how these guys develop and if any of them can push any of the veterans out of their more established roles.
For my money, I think we'll see starters of NWB, Wigginton, Shayok, Young, and Lard. Significant bench minutes from Jacobsen, THT, and Lewis.
Assuming we go 8, maybe 9 deep, that only leaves 2-3 spots for potential playing time. With the hype THT is getting I'd guess he gets major minutes as the first guy off the bench in the back court at the wing. Seems like Jacobsen will likely be first off the bench for the front court. So I'd guess the remaining PT will go to other back court players.
It'll be interesting to see how gets the PT in those last few spots. I think Halliburton and Conditt are likely to sit the first year minus scrub minutes in non-con. Long will be a junior with 2 years under his belt, he works hard but might not have the talent to beat out others. Lewis seems to have more upside than Long and will have a year in the system. Then there is Talley, who I'm not sure has enough versatility to fit into what we want to do on the court, and then Griffin seems to be a raw talent but is highly rated. Its going to be exciting to see how these guys develop and if any of them can push any of the veterans out of their more established roles.
For my money, I think we'll see starters of NWB, Wigginton, Shayok, Young, and Lard. Significant bench minutes from Jacobsen, THT, and Lewis.
I think Lewis will need another year, breakout as a JR like Matt Thomas did once NWB and Shayok (hopefully not Wiggi too) are gone.
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/letter-to-my-younger-self-quentin-richardson/
SIAP, regarding chicago players. Check this out from a great city player ~20 yrs ago.
SIAP, regarding chicago players. Check this out from a great city player ~20 yrs ago.
I hate how the benches are on the camera side at KBoo.
Like tying an onion to your belt keeps your cows from going dry.
Cyclones signee Talen Horton-Tucker vaults 22 spots to No. 31 in Rivals 2018 ranking
Every ranking update and every loss we take this year just gets me pumped to see THT in a Cyclone uniform next year.
Cap City three point percentages, really?
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Would have been nice to have Shayok or THT yesterday. Lard and Brase struggled to defend Newman which is completely understandable. That's a tough assignment. THT/Shayok would have been perfect.
