Jeff2sf
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Reg: 11-22-04
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03-19-18 11:00 AM - Post#253789
In response to palestra38
The point of the Antonio Woods debate was talent? The guy is the 5th best player on a KenPom 130 team. Congratulations? "special" snort.
Jarrod, whom I so very much want to be good, was touted but was pushed to the bench in favor of players like Jake Silpe and Matt Macdonald. This was very definitely not a good freshman year for him. This is in no way a point in his favor.
Eddie got hurt. He had a wonderful game against Monmouth, a perfectly nice game against a high school/d3 team and was pretty lousy in the rest of the games (no seriously, go check). He was not touted to begin with. I sure hope we see more Monmouth, but if he shoots a still good but more normal 6 for 8, are we saying this was a good freshman year?
Jelani was touted. He also suffered a devastating knee injury. Many people come back from that. Some people don't. Some of the many who come back don't improve until their 2nd year playing. I hope we get two of Wang/Jelani/Jarrod/Eddie to make an impact and play in the Ivy Tournament. That would be a good thing. Yet it would be virtually impossible to argue that their impact will exceed Foreman and Wood's contributions next year. I think the improvement we can see from the other returnees will allow for an improvement. So I'd guess we'll be net positive as a whole, but not owing to the freshmen (edit - freshmen plus Jarrod who's a sophomore and coming off a not great freshman year) replacing the seniors.
Edited by Jeff2sf on 03-19-18 11:01 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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