_Fan has converted me since yesterday regarding JHR. Call him a necessary (but really adorable) evil, I guess.
Thanks, and I hope people don't misunderstand. I'm not advocating that JHR is one of our best post players, or even third best overall. But he is 3rd
right now. He's a 3 star recruit, given his size/athleticism pretty much a project, and by midway through his SO year he's a serviceable role playing post. Pretty much what I'd hope, and we'll see what he becomes. But his play doesn't even register in a list of post disappointments right now.
I'd list my top post disappointments like this:
1) The inconsistency, on and off the court season of Curtis Kelly. Preseason the hope was all-league level player and he's not. His up and down year has been a big factor in our year.
2) Our McD/5 star post not turning into one of our top 3 post players. Judge has all the measureables, looks good, but when he's banged around he plays soft, softer than JHR much of the time. One of the things I was hoping for was not necessarily Judge becoming all-league, but at least becoming similar to Samuels (numbers wise) during his FR year.
3) Asprilla being a wuss. His play on the court was about what I thought it would be, but I'm disappointed he didn't hang around. Depth is depth.
4) JamSam's struggles with his shot/scoring. Last year he was a double figure scorer in nearly 2/3 of our games, this year less than 1/2. His rebounding and defense is actually slightly better, but I expected he'd at least maintain his ability to score and he's dropped off. Granted, some of that is likely related to #1.