Flagg is averaging 9 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.6 steals, and 1.4 blocks. His scoring hasn't come through yet, but otherwise he's stuffing the stat sheet.
Men's Basketball Eligibility Next Year
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Yeah, the Flagg comparison is quite bizarre. Flagg is an elite talent and prospect. Nationally recognized as such. Milan is a very good talent and potential NBA prospect if he makes some improvements to his body/game/athleticism/etc.
Milan has nothing to apologize for; he is having and will continue to have a very good (maybe great) college career. Objectively, he is not at all on Flagg's level, and that is OK.
Eaglestaff and Momcilovic on the wing next year would be some ridiculous offensive firepower. Interesting there is a bit a connection there with Lipsey.
Agree. There aren't very many guys that are at Flagg's level of pure athleticism. It's not a knock on Milan as he's just not anywhere close. I love watching Milan because when he's feeling it he can be downright lethal. The problem is he doesn't have that same energy every game where he's ready to be a straight up monster. Curtis Jones (I'm not comparing him to Milan as they're WAY different) has that energy every single game where he's knocking down a lot of shots and wants the ball. I wish Milan would demand the ball the way that Jones does. If he were that hungry and could knock down shots at such a high volume then we would be having a different discussion about if Milan was going to the NBA two years early or not. It's a good thing we're getting him for at least another season as there will be huge shoes to fill with the departures of our two best players.
Only thing is that Eaglestaff isn't the most athletic and how does his defense hold up?
Rock, Fish, Watson and maybe even Nojus(hope not) will probably be gone next year or the year after. TJ isn't afraid to recruit over you. Just the way it is.
I assume this is referring solely at PG, because Milan was a major contributor as a freshman starting every game and scoring about 11 points a game last year.
Nojus can play at this level. He'll be back next year.
I agree. I think Nojus is just getting started at Iowa State, and I already like what I see.
I am fully expecting that there is going to be some ref show Big 12 game where there are 50+ fouls called (ala the Kennesaw St. game a few years ago) and Nojus comes in and absolutely balls out.
I hope not, but it sure seems like the quality of officiating always takes a nosedive once conference season starts.
Rock was an early enrollee last year, so age/experience wise he would be like a regualar freshman (like nojus this year). he has time to develop. I do worry with his size on defense if he'll develop the necessary quicks to play man defense. He's be great in a zone scheme, but we don't usually run zone.
Rock is a bad fit for the way we play. I want him to stay, but seems like he should try a different style.
I have to disagree on Mitchell. I think he’s the closest thing to Niang we’ll ever see in Ames.
Watch him on YouTube. Kid put Cooper Flagg in a blender repeatedly.
No skin off my nose, just an observation that you could theoretically have a young 17 year old freshman going up against a 29 year old man (maybe even 30 if did the prep academy prior to JUCO).
Agreed. There is a huge difference in athletic ability between a freshman and a 26-27 year old man. I don’t think this would be good for the college game.
17 year old freshman, lol, yeah sure.
There aren’t many now, and there would be even fewer if programs have access to older players.
