I hope the whole world (and media/announcers) are watching the Big East Championship, and see that Aaron Gray is the most overhyped/over-rated big man in America. He is slow, unathletic, can't dunk although is 7 feet tall (the next Eric Montross?), not very good at defense, just nothing good in his game. He is lucky he was born with height, for he has nothing else. Then again, all of this is nothing new to me, for the only game he played well against MU was the last one, in which the refs let him bear hug Barro into submission.
Erin Gray
If he is so unathletic, why did he get his way in the last game against us? He has a good touch around the basket, can back his way into the paint, and is a good passer. Too bad, we do not have such an unathletic biog man. As Ql Mcguire used to say, you need an aircraft carrier inside, and the two teams in the Championship game had them. Hibbert is just a more advanced aircraft carrier than Gray. I wish we had Gray on our team--we would then go much futher.
Pitt was beatable, but the Gtown combination of Green and Hibbert was our toughest opponent this year. I felt that was the only team that really blew us away.
He looked so awful compared to Hibbert. Right before the first TV timeout Hibbert got the ball on the low block about 6 ft from the basket with Gray on him. He backed Gray down a foot or two then calmly hooked jit in for two.
I agree with all of the above. He is unathletic. Also pretty smart around the basket and an asset to any college team that doesn't have a pro-calibre big man (which is most of them, including MU).
We'd love to have him, except when we are playing the rare team like Georgetown that has someone better, in which case we would be running him down for being unathletic! ;)