Ideal scenario he is simply too good to keep out of the starting lineup by the time conference play rolls around Ala McKay last year. If either he or Nader has a tremendous year we are going to be really really great.
Deonte Burton's game
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I'm excited for the alley oops he will catch from GN and Monte. Hope he plays hard on defense, His size and strength for a guard should be able to great some mismatches. Dare I even compare his to a former transfer that was able to post up smaller guards? (sarcasm):spinny:
Great. Now I have to clean up around here... In all seriousness, I can really see why he was a top 50 recruit out of high school. Holy ****! He will thrive in our system.
Thanks for posting the clip, hadn't seen that one before. Most excited about what he can bring to the team.
Burton from purely an athletic standpoint is most likely to make it in the NBA. We will see how well he shoots it from the 3 but I'm feeling good about that as well based on Fred's comments.
- Marquette was very guard heavy so Buzz and Wojo played him down low as a forward on the block. He was a 6'4" post player who came in to give starters a breather.
- Not an elite rebounder because he was 6'4" playing down low. He could clear people out and get proper position but height limited his ability to get rebounds.
- When looking at shooting percentage keep in mind what position he was playing
Wojo didn't play him more minutes because it was a guard heavy team and he put Burton down low. Burton could play other positions while the other guards could not.
Burton was forced to play out of position for both Buzz and Wojo strictly because he was versatile and could do a lot of different things. This is a big reason that Burton is at iSu. He was forced to play out of position. The kid has a better handle and shoots better than Nader. He shot 44% from the three and I would expect Fred to use him like Hogue. Yes, his threes were limited at Marquette but that was do to the position he played and not his ability Fred does very well with players like Burton. Tweeners. I expect him to play the three and to take bigger guys off the dribble or post up smaller guys.
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Bump.
Was listening to @JStanz51 and JBo. Jordan was talking about Fran's prep for ISU's team. He was going thru individual players and apparently said "the sun rises in the East, sets in the West, and Burton is gonna drive left." He mentioned they couldn't do anything to stop him.
(We did lose the game badly)
I just thought it was great insight.
Was listening to @JStanz51 and JBo. Jordan was talking about Fran's prep for ISU's team. He was going thru individual players and apparently said "the sun rises in the East, sets in the West, and Burton is gonna drive left." He mentioned they couldn't do anything to stop him.
(We did lose the game badly)
I just thought it was great insight.
Fairly certain he was talking about not being able to stop Brockington. Deonte was not good against Iowa.
The way I heard it he was talking about Deonte Burton but it applies to brockington so any clarification would be cool.
He was talking about Burton, but then went on to compare with IB. Said everyone knew what he was going to do and it didn’t matter. It was complimentary of IB. Not really Burton.
That’s how it started and then they shifted to how it was the same gameplay for Brockington and he still went off
It's not a bad pod, but its definitely the weakest of the Iowa Everywhere lineup. Probably not fair to compare JBo to seasoned media pros that Williams, Blum, Miller, Hassel have become, but he comes across really juvenile and simplistic compared to them, and again probably not fair comparison but his anecdotes and wisdom from his playing career are super childish compared to Rosenfels
He definitely sounds like a college sophomore or junior in the podcasts from a maturity standpoint opposed to a guy who spent 10 years in college, but I do like his insight. Maybe it's just me, but I find behind the scenes, off the court stories from college athletes to be interesting, no matter the team.
It really surprises me that any of these guys would want to be associated with J Bo in any way. Hard to find a worst person than that punk.
He is really juvenile and simplistic, that’s who he is
It's wild to me that Jbo even played against Deonte. Feels like Deonte has been gone for a decade by now and Jbo just wrapped up his career a few months ago.
