Fran Fraschilla: 2012/13 BigXII Power Rankings
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Hmmm funny he thinks that so lets prove ANOTHER espn whoever wrong. Having a true point will be a good thing this year. Yes we will miss Royce, Scotty, Chris, but others are ready to pounce!!
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They did beat ISU last year once, and almost beat them at home so I wouldn't be so quick to say he can't coach.
I should have said we lost all of our playmakers on offense.
Those guys were nice roll players, but no denying Scotty, Allen, Royce did a majority of work night in and night out.
You had me until here. Booker better than Allen? Please tell me this is a joke.
I'll help: What you're saying is we lost the three best guys on our team at taking people off the dribble and getting their own shot, which is a huge deal. I think Lucious will help and Clyburn is an obvious upgrade at at SF position, so this should help. I think our aggregate of 3-9 players are all going to have to step up huge this year so our offense doesn't regress. It was a pretty nice luxury to have a 6'8" 270lb monster who could take anyone off the dribble and create shots for everyone else. I hope we don't miss that, but there will proabably be nights were we look horrible on offense this year.
We lost all our playmakers on offense but we replaced them with playmakers on offense. On the defensive side, I would take Clyburn and Lucious over Scotty and CA. Increased depth, increased Babb. Everyone else has a year under their belt. Strong recruiting class. I would think anything under 4th would be slightly disappointing based on last years teams vs. this years, but then again we overachieved a bit last year.
Allen took 206 3 point shots. Booker took 38. And there's a 5% difference. Don't give me that crap. Bubu shot 46% he must have been the best three point shooter if we're going by that.
Call it what you wanna call it. Allen took too many shots. They may have shot a lot less, but they took those shots because they were open and should take those shots. Hence, the higher %.
You serious? It's probably the fact that Percy started 6 games last year while Booker started 0 games.
Ejim is a very good defender, him plus Gibson gives a good offense-defense inside, and Niang and Booker also make a good duo together. You don't want to have Niang and Gibson on the court at the same time (unless Gibson improved on D) the D would be pretty bad, just like you don't want Booker and Ejim together, the O would be pretty bad.
I think our defensive concerns are greater than our offensive concerns as far as the bigs are concerned. Gibson needed a much larger improvement than I feel he could make in a season. It's easy to put Percy in there when you have the manliest man in all of college basketball by his side. That man is gone and I don't see the combination of Ejim and Clyburn being the height inside as enough to cover the complete lack of defense Percy played last year. As good as Ejim is as a hustler, rebounder, defender, he is still short for a big man.
