Jevon Thomas

[bones129]

not to turn this into yet another will thread, but the talking pt i heard after ole miss is that will "calmed" everyone when he was on the court and things just ran smoother. maybe this is true, maybe we look more aesthetically pleasing with will running off screens or whipping passes side to side for 30 seconds, but the currency of offense is pts, not how "smooth" it looks. frank martin proved that. also the idea that having a non-shooting, unathletic, non-vocal leader calms the other players on the court stretches the bounds of credulity. will is intelligent, occasionally hits 3s, and tries. i'll give him that. but his best quality is staying out of the way. the rest of this stuff by commentators and tucks is just a way to qualify his importance since he doesn't garner stats to quantify it.

Aside from the "will is intelligent" reference--and assuming that means he's "basketball intelligent" (I have no reason to believe he's not non-basketball intelligent)--this is a pretty fair post. That said, I just don't think he'll make a big difference this season. Supposed promise unfulfilled.

[sys]

Next year seems like it will be a strange year for oscar. As far as I know Jevon Thomas is not billed as any kind of spectacular 3 point shooter, we know that Edwards can't really shoot from deep, and Foster is our only freshman with a decent stroke from outside. It looks like our strengths are going to be in the post, getting to the hoop, and trash points from o-boarding. Bread, did oscar have any (successful) teams like that at Illinois?

Do we?

we have more convincing data on that subject than pretty much any other aspect of next year's team.

[kso_FAN]

spradling is like about 90% of players, when he makes shots he helps his team and when he doesn't, he doesn't.  the main difference is spradling hardly tries to shoot.  if he'd get his %shots up somewhere near 20% and his 3pt% above 35% he should play as many minutes as there are in a game.  against all data, i think it's possible he could do the latter, but he's never even tried to do the former.

to be fair, for as long as he keeps his to% in the single digits, he is probably helping his team a little bit, if only by keeping it out of the other players' hands for a few seconds per possession, even though he refuses to shoot.

This. 1 TO every 100 possessions is pretty ridiculous. I think its fair to say moving him off the ball could increase his %shots and get him better shots.

[Belvis Noland]

 we've seen will in the 2-guard ( with angel)  and he still gave us no offense. 

[CNS]

we've seen will in the 2-guard ( with angel)  and he still gave us no offense.

Yeah, but rod and shane we going bananas then.  He has more necessity this season. 

[pissclams]

we've seen will in the 2-guard ( with angel)  and he still gave us no offense.

Yeah, but rod and shane we going bananas then.  He has more necessity this season. 

it's easier to be good at basketball when it doesn't matter.

[CNS]

we've seen will in the 2-guard ( with angel)  and he still gave us no offense.

Yeah, but rod and shane we going bananas then.  He has more necessity this season. 

it's easier to be good at basketball when it doesn't matter.

For ppl that don't perform well under pressure, yeah.