I mean surely he won’t shoot this poorly his whole career. Right? Right, haney?!
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Has not looked comfortable as stand still shooter with time to shoot from 3. Lot of his St Andrews highlights were transition type 3s and off the dribble stuff
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Is the St Andrews thing supposed to be a joke?
Rohde should never have been in a position where we needed him to start and play 30 minutes. Transferring up this big a leap in competition, no redshirt year, he needed to be worked in off the bench. Maybe he earns a starting spot later in the year, but it’s always a bad idea to press a transfer into a starting role in our complex systems. Even looking back at high-major transfers, Gill, Darius, Braxton, Armaan… most of them redshirted and/or started as backups, and the one who went straight into starting (Armaan) struggled mightily as well out of the gate, and he was an upperclassman used to B1G Ten ball. Rohde is just overwhelmed.
The problem is who else do you give his minutes to? Which isn’t to say that we shouldn’t be giving other guys run. Just that every guard option we have right now beside Isaac and Reece are question marks.
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I just never remember the school he came from and freudian slipped St Andrews once so I stay with it now
Yea, great guy to not start and see the game then sub any of 3 positions and bring the calm
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Hopefully this isnt offensiveto anyone, but I remember HGN comparing him to Paul Jesperson, and then i gasped a little. Jesperson was a nice role player here and played well at UNI when he transferred, but if Rohde is going to be more like him then he should not be viewed as part of the core to build around. And honestly this year, seems to be bearing that out. He is still young and has plenty of time to develop, but I THINK he should be viewed as a nice complimentary player for the future not part of the core players to build around.
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Looks like his skill set and athleticism has reached its ceiling in our league.
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Yes because underclassmen never improve after their first year in league play.
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Great point. I keep forgetting Rohde is so young because he has played so many minutes in 2 years of college hoops
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Some elements of athleticism can be improved but his core ability is below ACC average IMO and will remain so. He looks like a smaller Stattmann to me from a trajectory standpoint. Not reliable as a shooter and can soak up some minutes playing safe ball but that doesn’t get us anywhere.
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He later clarified the comparison was moreso body type and how they move. Different skillsets though. But @HoozGotNext can actually clarify
Bliss and Mallory are the future 1-2 ball handler guard combo. Gertrude will either transfer or explode and be really really good suddenly (once he gets comfortable/adjusted and rust is off). Guard version of DeAndre Hunter (I consider this wonky year the equivalent of Hunter’s redshirt year). No in between. Regardless I dont think we have him for long enough to consider him as the core. We need a wing or third play maker long term
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He’s definitely a better ball handler and passer than Kody. I generally agree that he’s not going to become more athletic. So basically he needs to make some open shots, and if he does, then he’s a solid role for 2 more years
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The Stattman scenario is a realistic possibility. I think he has more attacking tendencies than Kody though (which is a nice foundation to work from). He is a more sure with the ball than Kody too.
I think there were a couple of games in the past years that Kody took it on himself to be more aggressive and it helped the team, but those moments were few and far between. Even in those moments he still seemed like a role player. I think that is what we get from Rhode (with a little more consistency and a slightly higher ceiling his last two years here). He is the kind of player you put in 20 minutes a game when you don’t have better options. If you do have better options he’s 10-15 unless he gets the hot hand.
Wow just looked him up. Year 2 at UVa Jesperson stats read very similar to Rohde so far his own year 2
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His biggest issue is just not making shots and now it’s starting to affect other parts of his game.
His shooting has just been way worse here than at St Thomas, starting with the FT shooting which shouldnt have anything to do with competition. I think he may not have been prepared stamina wise to play at this level for this team for 30 minutes a night but i imagine it wont take bery many offseasons to fix that issue.
I kinda think you have to love his passing and creation ability long term though.
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I also think the athleticism has very little to do with hitting open 3s which he was doing well in both HS and AAU (at peach jam against high level competition) and last year (including 3 3s against Creighton).
I just dont think Rohde is comfortable operating in the halfcourt. As @DFresh11 said, a lot of his flow comes in the full court and that’s just not what we do. Pushing the ball. Would ironically also give more opportunity to Gertrude which would eat Rohde’s minutes but he would be more effective in those fewer minutes.
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I love when we agree hometeam
Also I see very very few similarities between Kody and Rohde other than theyre white and havent been shooting as well as we thought (which isn’t limited to those two…)
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What a preposterous comparison. Their games are not similar at all
This is the key point. After last night, its easy to be unhappy with Rohde’s play in aggregate (though I think he’s someone who, overall, has been better than the stats say), but those minutes have to go to someone specific, not some theoretical perfect 3 we could slot in.
Rohde’s minutes could go to:
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Dante - Covers the secondary distribution and creation role, does genuinely bring something new to the offense, and is an underrated rebounder. But you give up size on defense and ball security on offense, and he might be the only player on the team having an inarguably worse offense season than Rohde. So, probably not.
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Bond - Before the season started I thought he’d be the guy. Great rebounding, pretty good defense, and can be aggressive on offense. But no outside shooting on a team that badly need it, and the extent to which he dominates against mid-majors and then disappears against “real” opponents is shocking. Demonstrated in one stat: Bond shot 60% on 2p FGs in OOC games and 16.7% in ACC play. I mean, wow.
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Eli - Massive potential and talent, his ceiling is the sky. Good rebounder, disruptive defensive player but doesn’t have the system 100% down yet. Handle and outside shot are still works in progress, lets say. Playing for the future, he’d be the choice. But the NCAAs are still a reasonable goal, and CTB always plays to win the next game, not games in March much less next year. And Eli doesn’t help the team win more now than Rohde. I’m annoyed we aren’t getting him 5mpg, though.
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Taine - There’s probably some recency bias at play here, but he’s been the anti-Bond. “Blofeld” was 3/11 from 3 and 3/6 from 2 in OOC play, but against ACC foes he’s gone 6/10 from 2 and 7/9 from 3 (?!?). On the season he’s hit almost half as many shots as Rohde despite waaaay fewer attempts/less playing time, and he hit as many FTs last night as Rohde has on the season. Is probably a little better at rebounding than Rohde. Defense is sometimes questionable and probably worse than Rohde’s overall as is his ball-handling and passing, but he’s not terrible at either. For me, at least, this is pretty shocking, but at this point I don’t see how you don’t at least give him a shot. His numbers are just in a completely different world than everyone else on the list.
And that’s really it. There’s literally no one else. Which is also why Harris doesn’t get less playing time, especially in an OT game. Beekman looked exhausted at the end of the game, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was fighting a bug. We certainly couldn’t give both Harris and Rohde less minutes unless you want to make someone else on the list a 30+ mpg workhorse and it would take a gigantic leap of faith to assume that’d work out well.
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