Minor career vs Power 7 - including his freshman year when he was a reserve.
Vs:
1 game ACC: 7/12 FG, 7 boards, 1 block, 4 turnovers
2 Games Big East: 7/14 FG, 7/11 FT, 7 boards, 1 steal, 3 assists, 3 turnovers, 0 blocks
3 games Big 10: 10/25 FG, 1/2 threes, 9/13 FT, 18 boards, 8 blocks, 4 steals, 4 assists
2 games WCC: 14/30 FG, 4/8 FT, 12 boards, 3 steals, 0 Blocks
So my concern would be his rebounding against the better teams … he averaged 8.4 rebounds overall as a 3 year starter but only 5.5 against the better comp.
I don’t want to sound like a hater but shedrick was not a rim protector. Giving up 50% shooting at the rim while also not rebounding and fouling a lot is pretty awful for your last line of defense. Blocks are great but they’re meaningless if you don’t get the ball back.
Shedrick definitely had potential as a rim protector but it didn’t really actualize.
I could see that. We absolutely could be a bubble team.
My feeling is that it will be akin to 2013-2014. We take 3-4 losses in the out of conference, and then rally in the acc racking off wins with a back loaded schedule and peak in march. And hopefully win a march madness game
Other than Reece, there’s not a heckuva lot of dependability / reliability / constants from this team. It’s a high variance roster. Maybe we don’t need much offense from our center spot, but it’d sure be nice!
Even if it were right, you’d like a guy that didn’t have the amount of question marks: no experience in any man-to-man system, maybe undersized, maybe not athletic enough.
I think Minor is fine in the sense that I would be surprised if here were bad (the way that Blake, for example, might be bad in the earlygoing), but an up-transfer who’s probably undersized and is struggling to learn the system seems miscast, IMO, as someone who you just want to be an anchor (and again, if all this team needs is an anchor – that’d be great!)
I’m being too negative. Minor is a great PNR roll man. He’s got good defensive aggression and movement and savvy. Knows how to use his strength. It really could work out well, here.
Norfolk just wants us to get back to the peak TB level and doesn’t sugar coat it during the offseason. In season he actually tends to be one of the more level headed and positive posters when other people freaking out. Or at least that’s how I remember things
I’m always wanting to get out of Shedrick defending business, mostly because I will never convince anyone, even if I’m correct, and because – no matter what happened – he chose to leave, and because some of you have decided that goofiness is not an endearing quality even though I suspect we are all – to man/women – 100% goofball-arific.
But I think this stat without context is a bit misleading. In Shed’s minutes last year, opp FG% at the rim was 48.3%. When he was off the court, that went up to 57%. Overall (all 2p%) it was 43.6% when he played, and 48.4% when he didn’t. In Shed’s minutes, we were equivalent to the 6th best 2p% defense.
The weak rebounding stuff IS borne out in the numbers, fwiw.
On the eye test though there were times were a ball was right there and Kadin couldn’t get two hands on it or had it ripped from him. You’re probably right in that regard.
Matthew Hodge in Peach Jam showed the same rebounding instinct weakness Kadin did. Very similar ways they were inable to get the ball or had it taken from them (but of course Kadin has longer arms and higher impact/potential as a helpside defender).
All of this rebounding talk makes me think though; I remember in Tony early years here there was this emphasis on bigs to box out and for guards to be the one to secure the rebounds. Is that still the case?
I think so, but tbh, I’m not sure if I notice it as much. It was most notable when we had Salt just holding dudes back with bigger guards like Dev going to get it
Im a bit wary of that lineup data with Shedrick in because his minutes were inversely related to Gardner’s minutes and Gardner has the biggest negative effect on rim protection. Plus the entire team played better in the noncon when shedrick got most of his minutes, including shedrick himself, but he started getting back into old really bad habits defensively before he hit the bench.
Fwiw, the bigger variable is BVP. Jayden is 58% (minutes%) with Kadin and 69% without. BVP is 28% / 72%. If I weren’t out of the Shed defending business, I’d quibble on the causation / effect between bad habits and MPG, but as I’ve said, I’m out of that business.
Id also question the sample size here and how much they played with Dunn.
But BVP had a FG% defense in the 30s at the rim.
Regardless, none of this shows anything that Shedrick was even an adequate rim protector.
Again, Im not trying to hate because he had potential and he showed it occasionally last year but I dont think its a drop off at all to go from Shedrick to more Dunn and Minor.
I havent followed where this stat and sentiment came from, and Im no shedrick fan (due to the rebounding and low bball IQ), but holding opposing teams to 50% shooting at the rim is very good (see this Verifying Browser...)
FWIW, I’m with you. The rare minutes he got alongside Dunn were crazy-effective on the defensive end, too (best two-man pairing on the team with at least 100 possessions by 10 points - which didn’t start happening until the heart of ACC play).
He was also in ALL 5 of our top offensive efficiency two-man pairings last season with 150 possessions. I spilled a lot of words about why those things were the case last season - but the short of it is that, along with the obvious moments, there was a lot of hidden value in him being on the floor (re: things like screening, shot deterring (not just blocking), requiring players not leaving him alone on the block, etc, etc.) that helped the team play better when he was on the floor.
Some general awkwardness, a couple of visible mistakes, and frustrating rebounding/physicality along with some high profile in-game narratives (like how effective Small Ball was against UNC in the second half of the first contest when they didn’t have either big) obscured a lot of that, I think to the coaching staff, too.
But, despite it all, the team was much better when he got significant run than when he didn’t, with the exception of a very small handful of games when they very first switched to small ball/the Inside Triangle as their bulk offense.
Tbh I think some of it with Kadin was the visual more than the actual points. When he got beat he usually looked very out of sorts and/or awkward. Leaves an impression in the memory that it happened more often than it did in reality
I guess we’ll have to wait and see on this one. But I guess my main point is I like the Minor fit, and I think fit is sometimes more important than talent in our system. Especially, when it seems that we have a lot of talent elsewhere on the roster.
I think Jack Salt is a good example of this. With all due respect, he was not the most talented basketball player. But he played his role really well, and was an integral part of some great teams. If you replaced him with Shedrick(a far more talented player) would those teams have been better or worse?
