Some questions because talent evaluation is not a strength for me. Is Bond good? How does he fit? Whatās his natural position?
I have been completely unimpressed with him, but I understand he didnāt get to play and there is a ton of room to develop him.
I would just appreciate some input regarding his future role.
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Are you okay? lol. I think you are misunderstanding. Itās not lost on me that heās going to be raw. Iāve been a fan of Buchanan getting minutes for his development/am more than okay with rolling with Buchanan/Robinson at the 5 next year.
What exactly are you arguing? lol
As of right now Iām disappointed in Buchanan. I hope that changes
You just invented this concept a while back and I wish youād stop saying it. Itās utter nonsense. Itās one thing to say they picked the wrong guys but donāt honestly believe the staff didnāt, like, watch all the film? What is it exactly that you think made the staffās evaluation less than thorough?
Fit. Have it on good word even staff thought it was a miseval to take a kid playing zone for 4 years and force them into our defensive schemes, for example.
Itās not about lack of film watching, itās seeing the fit with what we do. Rohde shooting off the dribble and off hand offs, etc. etc.
A missed evaluation is not the same as not thorough. Not thorough implies lazy.
Iām not crapping on his potential. You say that as if i wanted to dump Buchanan. I donāt. He has a lot of potential but heās a long way from realizing it
I think itās just wording then. I will switch to missed evaluation. The fact that this transfer class had 3 of them though is jarring.
The Rohde add; when I had the dream list and saw him being mentioned on Wisconsin boards I was pretty meh. Wisconsin fans were pretty skeptical that Rohde and Jackson Pavletzke (at Iowa State) would pan out at the power 5 level. When his name came up as a candidate staff focused in on a few months later I did buy in hard; I also got enticed by his scoring that probably made him attractive to staff. And his playmaking and proven production on peach jam made me overlook the lack of athleticism and how dependent he was on screens (which was highlighted by our lack of solid screeners for most of the season).
I also was a fan of the Jordan Minor add, so it was a fan miseval on my end too. Hell who knows how he looks with a longer leash earlier on in the season (but at the same time a play comes to mind where we were getting back on defense and instead of going to his man, Minor lined up in a zone position lol. Really had to unlearn a few things. So the lack of playing time also makes some sense; would have been more okay if Buchanan wasnāt the only other big and a green-behind-the-ears one on that).
The Dante addā¦ didnāt make sense at all in real time. Poor shooting numbers on a poor winning culture team (Gtown) and a lot of his shots coming in transition or outside the flow of the offense. Maybe staff were enticed by that and saw that + his big east run as bucket getting skill that we need when things go awry.
Buchanan looked no worse than PJ Hall looked as a true freshman. He looked no worse than Mike Tobey did in 2012-13, which means he looks better than literally every other true freshman true center in Bennett era, seeing as how every other one redshirted and then barely played as a redshirt freshman.
Yeah I think with this in mind you donāt have to bring in a portal 5 at all.
But a portal 4 who can slide down to the 5 if needed is a nice assurance.
I think it is unrealistic to be disappointed in Buchanan. Every 5 who has come in during the last 10 years has done a RS year and played less that BB during their RS FR year. In just about every sport they say that most players improve the most between their 1st and 2nd years since they hopefully learn what it means to succeed and get that first off season in. BB had his ups and his struggles but continued to go out there and battle guys who were a lot stronger and a lot older. I am really excited and optimistic about his contributions next season.
Thank you
My thoughts on BB are that heāll be fine if he gets stronger (likely to happen) so he becomes better at finishing at the rim, and gains some touch (a jump hook?!?!?) so I donāt have to watch the gross fadeaway. Also, his shot put off the catch isnāt a terrible shot, but his success rate is actually terrible.
14-20 on dunks, and 51% at the rim isnāt good enough for a 6ā11ā guy. 33% on other twos isnāt good enough for a guy that has percentages as low as he does at the rim and on dunks.
Buchanan has a ton of potential. Iām looking forward to the day he realizes it. But he wasnāt ready this year but he got a lot of valuable playing time that can only help him for the future. Hopefully he will be stronger next year.
Honestly, once Minor started playing I would not say he was the near biggest problem on the team. I guess the issue is it took a month for him to be playable
Big problem was that between Dunn, Rohde, Bond, and Harris we could expect about 0 points a game.
The low end role players on this team were remarkably bad. Think if instead of Harris/Rohde we had a first year Ty or first year IMac as the backup guard. And if instead of whatever we were doing at the wing/forward we had R FR Mamadi or Wilkins. Obviously those guys became all time hoos but itās not like they were All-ACC as first years.
@HoozGotNext lock the thread. We got a tourney run to make.
LOCK THE DAMN THREAD
The thread was good reverse karma - keep it going. Or start a thread about why we get knocked in our first tourney games so much.
Paging @jazznutUVA LOCK IT UP
