Amazing that you can receive that designation/rating and not really be able to play at all.
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Rock, Omaha, Watson, and Fish all have the worst overall metrics on their entire teams so far. It is an extremely small sample size but thought it was interesting.
After 10 days of medication it cleared up
He has been playing fairly well at Pitt. 9.3 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 1.7 assists in 27.7 minutes per game.
Good for him honestly, we all thought he could’ve turned out here eventually.
Still confuses me a bit why he left, unless the staff just knew what they had coming in with Toure and Batemon and the Nojus would end up recruited over and were honest with him about it
Would Nojus have been Heise replacement next year? If so Nojus would have to been willing to get little playing team for one more year. I also think I remember seeing something on one of the boards saying Nojus was one of the players that was not happy at the end of the year. So i don't think Nojus was willing to wait one more year to possibly get playing time. Hope he does well at Pitt.
I thought during a podcast they said Nojus was gone a good chunk of the summer training for an international opportunity. So missed the bonding and work session. My personal opinion based on nothing is that he also realized he could play high level basketball without the work TJ has them put in on defense. I was 18 one time, I could see that being appealing after the exposure.
End of the day I think it boils down to Nojus not being the type of defender or physical player needed. He’ll probably end up a better offensive player than a guy like Nate but he wouldn’t be close to the defensive player, rebounder, etc
Yes. Indrusaitis got like zero minutes / opportunity to show us what he can do when the lights are on. Maybe he was poor in practice.
Either way we have a good guard lineup right now.
My impression of Nojus was the same as it is for everyone who rides the bench during Otz's tenure (not executing what Otz wants on defense).
I do think Nojus upside on offense was a lot higher on offense than Nate but Nate a better rebounder and defender for sure
Against typical early season opponents. He played 14 minutes and scored 5 points (2 - 7 from the floor) against West Virginia. I watched most of that game, and he really struggled to keep up defensively. While he shows flashes offensively, he still looks overwhelmed most of the time.
Yup, doesn’t mean he’s a bad player at all. Just a player whose game/strengths ultimately didn’t fit within TJs system. Sometimes you just don’t learn that until they are in the program.
Nojus wouldn't be getting minutes over any of the guys playing for us right now. It was best for all parties that he went elsewhere.
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Guessing he’ll be back at a high major
Yeah, I think the narrative some people push that people who didn't work out at ISU just didn't want to work hard on defense is unfair. Some of these guys probably work plenty hard and would be solid in a more normal defensive scheme.
ISU just runs a system that requires a lot of awareness, anticipation and mental and physical speed, because it's constantly gambling for steals and any lag in rotation systemically breaks down the whole scheme. I think Jackson and Chatfield just didn't have the legs and the game maybe just never slowed down for Nojus.
However hard they might've worked, all 10 guys in this year's rotation fit the system much better
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