Quote from: wadesworld on Today at 12:43:15 PMYes, I believe Jerel maybe coaches Jaxson's Meanstreets team?  Could have that wrong, but I think Jerel coaches with Meanstreets and Jaxson plays for them.

Hard to find a better person and rep for the program than Jerel, so that's big.

Quote from: onepost on Today at 12:37:57 PMIsn't it Jaxson Davis who has a relationship with Jerel?

Yes, I believe Jerel maybe coaches Jaxson's Meanstreets team?  Could have that wrong, but I think Jerel coaches with Meanstreets and Jaxson plays for them.

Isn't it Jaxson Davis who has a relationship with Jerel?

Quote from: JakeBarnes on Today at 12:10:12 PMJaxson looks like a stud.

Yup.  He would be an awesome get.

Jaxson looks like a stud.

Quote from: tower912 on Today at 09:27:19 AMHopefully a guard to replace Sean in two seasons.

Jones already transferred. Get with it, Buddy!

Quote from: Viper on Today at 09:23:16 AMshaka to that same door?

Sure. Shaka is the worst. Especially because of his .200 winning percentage against RED. He's gotta go.

Quote from: Hards Alumni on Today at 10:42:38 AMHis entire life collapsed in less than a day.  He's a fool for all of it, but people who lose everything don't typically act in a rash manner.  I'm not excusing any of the things, I'm just saying it is understandable.

Not to mention people fail to realize how comfortable and bulletproof you can feel with secrets and getting away with them, especially for long periods of time.  Its easy to say someone should know the consequences or what they are risking, but it can be VERY easy to not see the forest for the trees (you see it all the time with hidden addictions, illegal activities, other cover indiscretions).  Then as soon as you are forced to face reality and those consequences abruptly, that comfort and plausible deniability vanishes and reality gets very cold, very harsh, and very immediate in a hurry.  That doesn't mean you feel bad for him, but its certainly understandable as to why there was something that snapped.

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on Today at 11:06:15 AMThere is no way for one to rate Ben Gold as one of the two best players.

BPR rates Ben at #40 in the Big East. He's second on the team and far ahead of team fifth and Big East #79 NJ.

Offensively, Ben is better from 2, better from 3, better eFG%, and turns it over less.

Defensively, Ben is a better positional defender, and while NJ generates turnovers, he's often a feast or famine player, taking himself out of position when he doesn't get the steal.

I like NJ. He has the higher long term ceiling, and you can even find metrics like PORPAGATU! that like him better than Ben, but that's largely an offense only metric that doesn't factor in the areas NJ is comparably weakest.

You can make a case for NJ, and in the long term he's the higher value asset, but not only is there not "no way" to rate Ben higher at the moment, but you have to engage in some serious mental gymnastics to put anyone other than Ben second to Chase. We have one guy (Chase) who would be a starter on any team in the league, one guy (Ben) who would start on most teams in the league, and the rest are role players who would be bench players pretty much anywhere else. And NJ, FBOW, is one of those because he isn't a fully formed two way player yet.

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on Today at 11:06:15 AMNigel James has established himself as the #2 on the roster. He's a building block, and there are others who are potentially as well, so while I don't see a reason to "blow up the roster," there does need to be a change in its construction and honest conversations held with some of those with eligibility remaining. 

Dumb anti this take stat of the day, Nigel James is +16 well Caedin Hamilton is +26.

I would like to see Nigel defend anyone before I say "he must stay". He is largly worse than freshman year Kam Jones who was a activly bad defender, but unlike Jones, James's offensive prowess isn't as sustainable for the future. His is shooting is Meh at best. He currently over dribbles and plays like a guard who wants to gain stats instead win. I would feel much more comforatble with him long term if he simply played less and learned more.

James is in the middle of the pack for creative freshman guards so far. He would be behind Kingston Flemings, Mikel Brown Jr., Mario Saint-Supery, Chance Mallory, Either Arkansas Guard, Acaden Lewis, Ebuka Okorie, Aiden Argabright, Azavier Robinson, and we watched Rakim Chaney outplay him for Valpo.

 

Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on Today at 11:03:55 AMNigel, Stevens, Zaide, Royce those are good players. They need more.

Maybe (freshman guard with quesitonable defense), Maybe( freshman guard with quesitonable defense and limited creativity), No (junior guard with limited creativity who is playing so poorly he was benched for stevens), Maybe (he was good last year but he can't shoot, bad from FT line and 3point land).