Do you think if he were somewhere else this past season he would have been better at catching passes?
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Do you think if he were somewhere else this past season he would have been better at catching passes?
I want kids to have a chance to develop without the immediate threat of a 24 year old coming in to undermine that development.
Fully admit those days are over. Adapt or die and this staff has certainly adapted. Just win.
I haven’t read this whole thread nor will I. Sounds like he is pretty soft and over rated as a recruit. If he were a true 5 star talent he would have played.
Probably. He would've had more playing time and would've figured it out. Athletes figure stuff like that out. His biggest problem IMO was nerves. Too bad he's gone. I think he would've taken a huge step for ISU next season. Oh well. Excited to see who ISU brings in along side the big from Charlotte.
I don’t disagree with you but I do think this part has been exaggerated over the past few years due to COVID years. That kept a lot more players in college for a longer period of time and really impacted the use of freshmen. I’m hoping to see it tilt more towards younger guys getting time to play as the COVID years are almost over.
Very classy, well done.
Maybe not over, but different. The Biliew situation was really odd to me. In particular, some of the difficulties he showed during the times he got in the game were odd for a 5* recruit, overrated or not, and IMO not particularly related to whether he was playing the 3, 4 or 5.
My thought is that a "development" aspect he needs is significant playing time to work some things out. Practice isn't like games; the mental mindset is different. I think a year or two at a "smaller" conference school where he can be on the floor for significant minutes every game would do wonders for him. I personally don't think WVU is that place. He could very well be a guy who comes back to a contender as one of those "twenty-somethings" and makes a significant contribution.
It's all about the Benjamins. The schools with deep pockets can just buy championships. Which defeats the purpose.
Kind of like going hunting but you tie an animal to a tree and you send a trophy hunter out to kill it just to say he killed it.
The same goes for championships sure you won multiple championships but only because you could afford to outspend everyone else. You didn't win it you bought it.
Athletically Omaha was everything a basketball coach could want, tall, great build, long arms and could run the floor, he looked the part of a 5-star player.
The problem was he had horrible hands, could not finish with the ball, whether it was nerves or just lack of development, he just was not a good BB player. Now can he get there, I think at best he is a more athletic version of Big Rob, who frustrated all of us with balls bouncing off his hands and lack of post moves and being able to finish.
Good luck Omaha wherever you land up, but as an ISU fan, we are really not missing a lot.
Are you sure? Rob Jones was not perfect but had better post moves than many big men we had in the past.
100 points for not using "That being said" or "Respect my decision".
Are you really comparing Rob Jones to Fizer or Niang? Hell Paul Shirley and many others had better post moves than Jones. Loved his hustle, but no coach ever in a scouting report stated we have to stop this kid or we are in trouble.
Hustle and heart can only take you so far, Jones maxed that out, but in the end, skill generally wins out.
