Project turns into Monster

[downtown85]

Thabeet's stat line against Miami yesterday (19pts, 14rebs, 7 blocks) tells me he is probably going to have a special season.  I just hope one of our big man projects can develop into something similar over the next couple of years.

Question is, how do we stop Thabeet this season?

[nyg]

In his first game, he had 24 points and 17 bounds.  Stop him, I doubt it.  Let him get his points and stop others.  It will be like that in alot of BE games. Not only Thabeet, but Blair, Samuels, Monroe, Harangody, etc. 

[BrewCity83]

You can't stop him...you can only hope to contain 'im.

[butchbadger]

He is an amazing specimen. Can't believe he isn't in the NBA.  UW will have no answer for im tonight unless he gets some cheap fouls.

Miami is areally good team and U Conn made them look like nothing last night.

[BrewCity83]

You can bet that Bo uses his newly learned arsenal of foreign language cusswords on the refs in order to get Thabeet some cheap fouls tonight.

[bma725]

Question is, how do we stop Thabeet this season?

Honestly, I think trying to stop Thabeet is going to be a waste of energy because there just isn't anyone on this team who can pull that off.  MU would be better off just letting him get his points and worrying about stopping Walker, Dyson, Austrie etc.  With the current roster there's a much better chance of stopping those guys than there is of stopping Thabeet.

It's the same kind of thing that MU did with ND during the first game last year.  Harangody had 29 points, but only one other player on Notre Dame scored in double figures, and MU was able to hold the rest of the Irish below their normal scoring average.   

[CTWarrior]

The problem is that we don't have anyone who can stop Adrien, either.  UConn and Louisville are going to be near impossible matchups for us.

[tower912]

Win all of the games we are supposed to win, play .500 in the tossups, take our 11 conference wins and run like hell.   

[RawdogDX]

11 wins would work for me.