ProfessorChaos wrote: ↑

April 25th, 2018, 8:57 pm

Aggie in Hawaii wrote: ↑

April 25th, 2018, 5:24 pm

aggieguy13 wrote: ↑

April 25th, 2018, 3:48 pm

Given a choice between bashing an Aggie student-athlete and not saying anything at all, well, I'd probably choose the latter. That's just me though.

Good luck getting a message board of fans who watch their team religiously to not ever say anything negative about players. Just isn't a realistic goal. When a player doesn't play well fans are going to talk about it. Just the way it is.

And what about a player like Jalen Moore? A guy who had an absolutely fantastic career at USU, but if you go off the vocal majority of people on this board, he was somehow a disappointment. Labeled as a soft player who never reached some imaginary unreachable potential that those around here thought he SHOULD be, so he got based for it for the bulk of his playing career.

Koby Mcewen comes here and has two fantastic seasons, but even before his transfer announcement, the bulk of the talk on him is about how he's "selfish, not a leader, immature, etc". Narratives that come out of nowhere and snowball into acceptance as if they were common knowledge about the kid.

I used to think behavior like that toward college athletes was limited to a place like Cougarboard, but it's become the norm around here too the last handful of years.

Main point being, don't be s***ty to other people.

treesap32 wrote: ↑

April 26th, 2018, 11:00 am

I don't know why we're talking about Ainge. I don't think this will even be an issue in a couple months.

swishh_15 wrote:

Donald_Sullivan wrote: ↑

April 25th, 2018, 1:13 pm

The staff is recruiting another PG named Knight, John Knight from SW Mississippi JC. He's a freshman full qualifier so he'd be eligible to play the coming season. Don't know if we've offered but he's also being recruited by St. Bonaventure and New Mexico. Not sure how to post a youtube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWJhd-YndfE

Thanks the info! I like this kid a lot and think he'd be a very solid pick up at this point. Hopefully the fact that the starting job would basically be his to lose will help lure him.

Chupamedia wrote: ↑

April 26th, 2018, 4:45 pm

Although Ainge didn’t show us much on the floor, he also returned from a mission just days before the team went to Italy. He was not just rusty from not playing competitively but also had to learn the system (in retrospect maybe there really was not a system but at least had to know what our philosophy was). Having not played at all and just getting home he was thrown into the Weber game when Koby turned his ankle and didn’t do well. I’m not sure that didn’t hurt his confidence for the season. I don’t really know if he is a D1 player but I don’t think last year was a fair analysis of his game, so I am willing to give him a fair shake if Coach Smith thinks he’s good enough to stay

Yossarian wrote:Three-point shooting is not an essential skill for a PG. If a point can hit 1 out of 3 from the three-point line, that is okay by me - anything above that is a bonus. The more important skills: ball handling, ability to break a full-court press, ability to penetrate and get into the key, passing ability, and free throw shooting at a high percentage. Ideally, the PG will have the ball in his hands at the ends of games and he should be able to hit the foul pitches at a high rate (85% plus).

TheAKAggie wrote: ↑

April 30th, 2018, 6:16 pm

Yossarian wrote:Three-point shooting is not an essential skill for a PG. If a point can hit 1 out of 3 from the three-point line, that is okay by me - anything above that is a bonus. The more important skills: ball handling, ability to break a full-court press, ability to penetrate and get into the key, passing ability, and free throw shooting at a high percentage. Ideally, the PG will have the ball in his hands at the ends of games and he should be able to hit the foul pitches at a high rate (85% plus).

It’s not the 90’s, gotta be able to shoot the three now.


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