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Posted
5 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

If Cupps is playing 10-15 minutes, then we are probably NIT bound. We need something more reliable than a lowly rated freshman and Gallo as a secondary ball handler.

Are you placing your order for crow already?

Posted
2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Aren't you a member of the Braden freakin Smith fan club?!!?

Fan club? No. But we also don't have a 7-4 dude to help Cupps out as he's adjusting to the game. And honestly, we don't have a player development coach quite on the level of Painter. Can Cupps be that good in his first year? I guess so. I wouldn't bank on it if I'm the staff. I don't know if it's just blind fandom or arrogance as a fanbase, but to believe we only need 3 dudes to handle the ball is ridiculous. The thought we shouldn't go get another ball handler because of a freshman is ridiculous. It's easy to have a freshman be a ball handler when you have another really really good player on the floor, but next year we won't have that. Maybe the year after we will.

Posted
Just now, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Well Cupps won't have two All-Americans to play with like Yogi did. And Yogi was pretty damned good his freshman year in his role.

I think Cupps will be better than Yogi as a FR and more efficient. 

Posted
14 minutes ago, btownqb said:

Well.. XJ plays 32mins+.... Cupps plays 10-15. Where are the mins? 

There are an unlimited amount of minutes at PG.

we had 80 a game available early on and that shrunk to 40 because we were limited. We need more speed, more ball handling, more players that can create and despite opinion - XJ is not guaranteed to be back at all and if he is, he is not gauaranteed to be his old self after a season ending injury. That, coupled with Cupps having never played a minute at the P5 college level suggests we need another solid Pg.

 

galloway is a 3, playing him at the 1should be a worst case scenario

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 I guess both parties are right . We do need another experienced point guard if we want to be a good tournament team. What if X gets injured again? I love Trey but he would get exposed quickly by an athletic scrappy point guard. You should have a  good back up and it wouldn't be fair to Cupps to take that much work load.  Yet at the same time Cupps does need 10-15 minutes a game to develop properly. 

Posted
27 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

There are an unlimited amount of minutes at PG.

we had 80 a game available early on and that shrunk to 40 because we were limited. We need more speed, more ball handling, more players that can create and despite opinion - XJ is not guaranteed to be back at all and if he is, he is not gauaranteed to be his old self after a season ending injury. That, coupled with Cupps having never played a minute at the P5 college level suggests we need another solid Pg.

 

galloway is a 3, playing him at the 1should be a worst case scenario

XJ is coming back. Cupps not being ready is a fabrication you guys have now made up. And now we've made up XJ might not come back fully healthy? Its a broken foot. He should lose zero ability. 

TG can play any 1-3. 

Posted
12 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Yogi averaged 7.6 points, 4.1 assists, 2.1 turnovers. I highly doubt he will have that kind of season.

Yogi only had 3.0 turnovers per 40 minutes!

Clearly more careful with the ball than a guy like Galloway, who averaged 1.1 turnovers per 40 last yea... ahhhh,... f' it.

Posted
14 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Yogi averaged 7.6 points, 4.1 assists, 2.1 turnovers. I highly doubt he will have that kind of season.

I'd be pretty surpised if he didnt. Plus.. shoot a better percentage from the field and from 3. 

Posted
12 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

 I guess both parties are right . We do need another experienced point guard if we want to be a good tournament team. What if X gets injured again? I love Trey but he would get exposed quickly by an athletic scrappy point guard. You should have a  good back up and it wouldn't be fair to Cupps to take that much work load.  Yet at the same time Cupps does need 10-15 minutes a game to develop properly. 

Its very unrealistic to think we can just add a serviceable vet PG and give him no mins until/if XJ gets hurt. 

We just don't have the mins. XJ is playing 36mpg+ when it matters. 

Posted
22 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

There are an unlimited amount of minutes at PG.

we had 80 a game available early on and that shrunk to 40 because we were limited. We need more speed, more ball handling, more players that can create and despite opinion - XJ is not guaranteed to be back at all and if he is, he is not gauaranteed to be his old self after a season ending injury. That, coupled with Cupps having never played a minute at the P5 college level suggests we need another solid Pg.

 

galloway is a 3, playing him at the 1should be a worst case scenario

We started the season playing both Johnson and Schifino together, so yeah there was 80 minutes before Johnson got hurt.

If the staff wants 2 on the court we need another ball handler.

Posted
1 hour ago, MikeRoberts said:

XJ is not guaranteed to be back at all and if he is, he is not gauaranteed to be his old self after a season ending injury.

You're right, there are no guarantees of health and playing level. However, XJ was out with a broken foot. We're not talking a blown knee or a torn Achilles or anything like that. It was a broken foot. By the time next season rolls around, he'll have had close to a year to recover. In fact, he was close to being back at the end of this season. If he doesn't play well next season, I don't think it'll have anything to do with his injury this year since there is no reason to think he wouldn't get back to 100% after a broken bone.

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