Mama-D carrying him for a good 10 seconds after his game winning 3 at UNC is still hilarious. Mama-D is a character!!!
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Woldo but strong (if he’s got his brother’s ability to put on muscle) is a useful player, I think.
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Yeah, we’re losing ~4 regular players for next season, but 3 of the 4 are frontcourt guys. Losing Reece obviously opens up some backcourt minutes, but we’re already generally deep at guard/wing and I’d assume Bliss and Dante are first in line for the lead guard minutes already.
If X works on his handle and on-ball defense he can carve out some minutes there. But that’s tough to do and if it doesn’t happen, he’s in the same fight for minutes he was this year. I expect him to grow more than, say, Taine this season to the next and will earn a role, but it won’t be an open opportunity.
I think hunter catoor is a good comp, if we’re allowed to compare to Hokies
iMac is a better athlete and ball handler. I don’t think we see sharma as a primary option on press break
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Some considered Sharma as the 2nd best shooter in his class. 2nd only to Kon.
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Id put him up there with Kon and Jalil bethea in terms of pure shooting. The reason why they are 5 stars and Sharma is in that 150-200 range is that with Bethea/Kon shooting isn’t what makes them special even though they are also as elite a shooter you can get out of HS. It’s the diversity in their game
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Sharma fits the B/M offense really well, much like Catoor would. Hopefully we continue to work more DHO’s into the offense too, I think Sharma would be a big threat to shoot while moving off those in the same way that Purdue guards do off their wheel actions. IMO the best way we can utilize Sharma at least in his first two years here is as a headache player, aka someone who spends the entire possession running circles around the perimeter looking for openings while our other four guys run the set.
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IMO taking Sharma was almost all reward, almost no risk.
No one looks at the future depth chart and says “if this guy doesn’t produce, we’re screwed”. Especially if we end up with 1-2 of Mallory, Lewis, Dixon.
Worst case…he doesn’t play and transfers, or doesn’t play and gets a great education as 12th-13th man, and has a career high of 10 in mop up duty against a mid-major in a future December.
Best case…he’s an elite shooter who was missed by the P6 schools, and our staff looks like geniuses.
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Could use the scoring right about now.
13 threes made
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Sorry to dump in the Sharma thread and this isn’t a knock against him but unless he’s a once in a generation (for the Hoos) shoot-from-any-angle/square-in-the-air shooter like Guy (he’s not) or has half court range like Ty (doubt it) it doesn’t matter how good of a shooter he is. We aint gonna scheme to get him shots.
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There are still plenty of good looks to be had in our system. Bigger issue is that we’re too easy to guard because you can sag off too many of our players. At most we have 2 good 3 point shooters on the court at a time. Easy to take those 2 away when we can’t punish teams in the paint.
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Yeah and the non shooters who play don’t really do anything off the dribble or in the paint…so it’s a double whammy
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Who was that guy that said we shouldn’t offer him? I can’t remember his handle?? Some ancient astronomer guy or something like that. It’ll come back to me. Well, anyway, he’s an idiot.
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Sharma’s team in white.
Semi-final game.
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I like him a lot. He could scratch his junk a little less when interviewed, maybe? 
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I’m not that excited about him. He’s kind of a hybrid between JAR and Taine Murray. Why don’t we go after athletic guys that can win 1-on-1 matchups?
All three teammates did. It almost looked like a Super Trooper “meow” challenge.
He might be the best shooter in high school right now and already has a college ready body. He’s also been steadily producing since his commitment. Hunter Cattoor comp seems spot on and that’s a very solid college player. You need role players too, and lord knows we need shooters.
Don’t know what’s not to like
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His foot speed looks considerably slower than Cattoor.
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