I'm with Williams that I prefer Alstrok to Brown, but I'm in the camp of land Juiston and everything else is gravy.
Marial Shayok Commits to ISU
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You don't play for Virginia unless you can play great lock down defense. In my opinion, getting a good to maybe great defender is just as important as getting a scorer. The points will come for him in a wide open offense.
FIRST post I've ever seen that had a clean sweep of the emoticons... WELL done sir. Well done.
Last year Iowa State was 104th in the country with 73.2 possessions per game, Virginia was 350th with 62.7 possessions per game. Only team with a slower pace of play was St Mary's.
Pretty sure I've read this more than twice from multiple posters. I hope we get Juiston just so I can go nuts with the gravy memes & gifs.
Marial has good size and athleticism to be the 3 & D Chris Babb like player for ISU which will be a nice complement to LW playmaking.
I don't think it should be underestimated how beneficial having a player drilled in Defensive principles of Virginia to practice against the ISU guards during the summer and his Red Shirt year will help get McNeill, LW and Long ready. Not to mention he'll have a year to get acclimated to Prohm's offensive system to be ready to play his senior year.
The key for him seems to be minutes played.
When the guy played 20 or more minutes last season he averaged 12 points 3 boards (only high major games). When he didn't he averaged 5 and 1. For his career he is just below a 10-4 guy shooting 51% inside the arc and 39% from beyond when playing 20+ (vs high majors).
Its not insane to think the guy could theoretically jump and be a 14-4 guy over 25+ minutes with a team that plays faster with more possessions. I am not saying he will be but I can see the point made based on how he's produced when hes got the minutes over his career.
Apparently as a fanbase we're at a point where getting someone from a very nice basketball program who averages 9 ppg and is a threat from 3 has become a bad thing.
And we're also complaining about a legit P5 player for a young but talented group of guards to practice against.
I like transfers that are Power 5 battle tested, I also think he could thrive in our offense, very excited for this one...
For the record, it was just that guy, and maybe one other.
95% approval rating is very high.
I'm not surprised that when a guy plays well he plays more minutes.
Look at his advanced stats. If he plays a lot he'll very likely be a 12-16 ppg guy. The only question I have is how efficiently.
Ok... his PER was 17.8 which was effectively Matt Thomas and 4th best on the roster last year.
Fwiw, in the context of him getting better with more minutes (usage), Thomas had the 4th best PER on the 4th or 5th usage. Shayok had the 4th best team PER on the highest team usage.
With Shayok, Juiston, Babb and Morrow we could be a really good defensive and rebounding team next year.
Lard and Young, too. Plus Wigginton and McNeill have the footspeed to cause onball havoc.
I for one welcome Prohm introducing some A&M/SEC style of play to Hoiball.
