Kinsella

[Warriors Forever]

He deserves more minutes. All around solid game and inspires his teammates. Put him on Gray a few times!!

[77ncaachamps]

That was a nice flop by him right now...

[beantownmu]

i love that everyone is buying into kinsella. he stepped up and filled the role player position for what....two games. put him on gray, he gets rolled over, but then again so did everyone. kinsella is a small forward trapped in a center's body

[Harrison]

I agree...Personally I am so very happy for Mike Kinsella and that after all his heartaches and battles he persevered and literally earned his scholarship in the last two games.  That is just great, but apart from that his defense is simply terrible and he cannot rebound the basketball.  He and the collection of bigs we have is barely D1 caliber and arguably not.  It just stinks we have arguably the best backcourt in the country and arguably the worst collection of bigs in the entire country, it is no contest in the conference.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

How in the world can you say we have "arguably the best backcourt in the country." It's not even close. We have an above average backcourt. That's it.

[augoman]

PRN is right..., good is about it.  We need to upgrade, and the front court needs it the most.  The prob w/ Kinsella is that he is 7' tall- TC assumes he can play center.  He could and did in high school, but cannot in d-1.  He reminds me a little of freshman year for Novak; being 6'10", everyone felt he should rebound, and mix it up in the middle.  Thankfully, he finally did in his senior year.  Kinsella should be used as a 3 to suit his shooting abilities, but we need him to be a 4 or 5. 

[Pakuni]

PRN is right..., good is about it.  We need to upgrade, and the front court needs it the most.  The prob w/ Kinsella is that he is 7' tall- TC assumes he can play center.  He could and did in high school, but cannot in d-1.  He reminds me a little of freshman year for Novak; being 6'10", everyone felt he should rebound, and mix it up in the middle.  Thankfully, he finally did in his senior year.  Kinsella should be used as a 3 to suit his shooting abilities, but we need him to be a 4 or 5. 

His shooting abilities shouldn't make him a three any more than Jerel McNeal's rebounding abilities should make him a five. Kinsella can shoot, but that's the only perimeter skill he has. He can't defend out there. He can't handle the ball out there. He can't slash to the hoop. He can't run the floor. He's a below average five with a bit of a shooting stroke, kind of truly destitute man's Kevin Pittsnoggle.

[Thomas' Danish Delight]

How in the world can you say we have "arguably the best backcourt in the country." It's not even close. We have an above average backcourt. That's it.

Yup.  If DJ could play with consistency, Jerel didn't throw it away constantly, and EVERYONE developed a midrange jumper, then we'd be in much much better shape.  We've only just now seen some semi-decent work downlow at the post, esp from Lazar.  Glad to see the freshman getting aggressive. 

Other than that though, we only score on fast breaks and three-pointers that we make only like 30% of the time, but we settle for them like 65% of the time.

[WashDCWarrior]

kind of truly destitute man's Kevin Pittsnoggle.

Watching the WVU game last night, I had to wonder if Kinsella had been healthy the entire time at Marquette, if he'd be comparable to the Mountaneer's Smalligan.

[muwarrior87]

MUMotiv, our boys HAVE a midrange jumper...what they don't have is perimeter shooting. from 10-18 feet, they knock down shots, i've seen that time and time again, you put them in there with a decent look and more often than not they hit it, once they start getting near the 3-pt line though, that's when their shooting breaks down. Fitz and Cube can hit from deep and that's all we really need, one more would be nice but having two guys that can knock down 3's consitantly is all we really need. Just about everyone else can hit the midrange jumper just fine but can't back it up for the extra point.

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

How in the world can you say we have "arguably the best backcourt in the country." It's not even close. We have an above average backcourt. That's it.

this "above average" backcourt is going to come back next year and be a top 10 team all year.

I understand that you are reffering to this year, but they are sophs and frosh, so realize that these kids have a lot of potential and are going to develop into excellent college players.

Have some faith.

[HoopDreams]

If we wanna talk midrange, interesting stat I came across..Cubillan is shooting 38% from the field. Only ahead of DBurke...