No one knows how good Toussaint or Grill is going to be. Grill got those offers because of the potential he had, not because of the player he already is. Obviously there is potential there or else he wouldn't have gotten those offers. Time will tell with Grill, but assuming either way that he's going to be great or bad at this very moment is dumb.
The South Dakota St. commit who shoots a lower FG% than Toussaint, and who's PER is about 1/3 of Toussaints?
You are reasonable, so look at this reasonably. If Grill can't crack the lineup with so few legitimate Big12 players in front of him, that doesn't speak very highly of him. If you couldn't take Jackson's or Nixon's minutes on the team, that says a lot. Sure there is always the hope he could totally breakout out of nowhere, but that is a slim possibility if he can't pass up those guys.
If you don't play hard, you don't play. That was part of the reason for Lewis not playing much before this, but he's now going to have to because of Halliburton's injury.
You are kind of at the Walden "hope for the best" fan stage then. I mean sure anything can happen, maybe Grill is the next Luka Garza having a crazy level of development over one summer. The odds of that are very slim considering he can't beat out Jackson or Nixon right now.
Now he can't handle the ball? He's a terrific ball handler who struggles to make good decisions because he's going a million miles an hour. He's the fastest guy on the court at any given time. You can't teach the athleticism he has. He's 6'0" and built like a brick sheet house....tiny, lol
Idk, I think its all upstairs with TL, he works hard, you see him busting his butt only to be totally out of place. Once he gets a little out of position, he panics, scrambles and then its usually a wide open 3 for the other team. He's always a step behind but he is very active on rebounds and lose balls, I think the effort is there. It's mostly a coaching issue. If you are pulled from the game for 1 or 2 mistakes and never allowed to return, it'll get you overthinking things, which is going to slow you down.
If he looks like this same player next year, I will agree that there will be a slim chance. I'm not going to base my judgement off of this year in which he's an 18 year old freshman.
Twins makes it too easy these days. He is like that baseball player that has stuck around for 2 years too long You watch him labor away in the minor leagues hoping to get a 2 week stint back in the bigs. It is sad really
Beard could probably develop most of the Clone players into being better than they are. Unfortunately for them, they don't play for Beard.
@dexterhawk as another example of what I was just talking about, see the fresh, new "Thad Matta Next ISU head coach" thread.
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Beard is a god damn miracle worker.
Prohm's put more players into the NBA.. Beard is a better overall coach though I won't disagree with that. I mean the guy literally just went to the national title last year.
He's a bull. He's a pretty good finisher and already an okay defender. There are obvious issues, but any freshman will have those.
LOL, Beard is 10x the coach and developer of talent than Prohm is.
