Perspective...

[MR.HAYWARD]

There have been some posts on the play of Butler.  none of them over whelming.  "7) Butler seems to be over his head and unless he develops a lot he will be a waste, completely lost on offense and not great on D."

I think people maybe too quick to jump to conclusions with the guy.  I have ssen him in open gym situations and while he is not the next Michael Jordan he is only a sophomore and has tremendous athletic ability.  We need to have some patince and what a great situation where he does not need to be heavily relied on this year?  Jimmy Butler took the palce of Scott Christopherson, there is no comparing of the two as to where each will be in another year or so.  Butler is 100X the player SC could ever hope to be.

[4everwarriors]

I wondered what Crean saw in SC that the rest of us didn't? Probably a nice kid, but out of his league. However, T-Cubed jumped on him like a fly to crap.

[jce]

I wondered what Crean saw in SC that the rest of us didn't? Probably a nice kid, but out of his league. However, T-Cubed jumped on him like a fly to crap.

"The rest of us didn't?"  Coming out of hig school, he was ranked by some services in the top 150.  He was offered by a handful of programs early in his HS career, playing at a small school in western Wisconsin.  After his sophomore year, when he verbaled to MU, it wasn't out of the question to ask if he was going to be an Anthony Pieper type player considering his small school background.  Its easy to monday morning QB this one, but I think if MUScoop were around at the time, we all would have been happy about this.

[nola03]

I wondered what Crean saw in SC that the rest of us didn't? Probably a nice kid, but out of his league. However, T-Cubed jumped on him like a fly to crap.

Crean probably saw that if he didn't jump early on a Wisconsin kid he would be excoriated by the vociferous local opinion as consistently ignoring local talent. Rightly or wrongly, this marked his last three years at Marquette.

As for Butler, he may be out of his depth now but he's still my pick to be the surprise player by end of season.

[🏀]

I wondered what Crean saw in SC that the rest of us didn't? Probably a nice kid, but out of his league. However, T-Cubed jumped on him like a fly to crap.

SC was a top-tier recruit prior his commitment to Marquette.

[Nukem2]

Offensively, SC is quite good though his foot speed keeps him from being a true PG.  His problem is on defense.  MU played/plays primarily man-to-man which pretty much relegated him to the bench.

[4everwarriors]

So then, Crean didn't know his own defense?

[Nukem2]

So then, Crean didn't know he plays man-to-man defense?

Obviously TC saw him as a 3 point shooter.  Perhaps TC thought he could develop ala Diener.

[Ready2Fly]

He might have been limited in his foot speed due to the knee surgery.  I don't think we saw Scott at his peak performance level, but the transfer out of the Big East was probably in his best interests.

[muball]

Butler is a very good athelete, has height, he needs more time to adjust from Juco, Joe is more experienced and that shows. Remember this was like the first week of practice. Lets be patient.