Thats solid work. Hope that turns the corner for him for the season
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If Morsell has a good/great year at NCST, most of my brain will just go with “he’s just a better fit for their less structured offensive system and that’s that”, but a part of it will be wondering whether there is/was something wrong with our coaching/team culture/offense to take a guy with his high school rep and end up getting two of the worst offensive seasons in all of college basketball. Regardless, wish him well - his transfer made a lot of sense, and while I don’t like having to play him, NCST felt like a very logical fit.
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Yeah I think it just wasn’t a fit. For every player that hasn’t worked out, there are 10x as many that wouldn’t be where they were today without Tony and UVa basketball.
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Not trying to be sour grapes, but for me, there are 2 parts: (1) did he have a good/great season and (2) did NC St have a good season.
If yea, to both, that would make me wonder what went wrong here.
Some guys just aren’t great in our system. Doesn’t mean they’re not good players.
Shayok & D. Thompson are 2 guys that come to mind that looked better in a little less structured system.
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Shayok is a great example he was a gunner once he got to ISU. I think Casey can play and he can shoot but he needs volume and ball in hand and he wasn’t going to get that at Uva.
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Imagine how Cal feels about Juzang rn .the McKay transfer is just depressing. Would have been a big missing piece for us but now is hidden on the bench.
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Come on, man. He had plenty of open looks. Can’t put it on the coaches. Maybe the system has something to do with it (I don’t think so) but end of the day other guys can shoot within our system.
Trey made shots.
Sam made shots.
Ty made shots.
Kyle made shots.
London made shots.
Malcolm made shots.
Joe made shots.
Casey did not make shots.
Maybe he goes on to shoot well for the rest of his career but I am confident he was not held back by our system.
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Minutes played is what matters and scoreboard dont lie. He got TONS of minutes out the gate
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Honestly, I agree - he got plenty of opportunities and missed tons of shots. That’s on him, and probably indicates it was a fit issue. But if I were to play devils advocate, it might be that (A) we weren’t getting him the type of shots he is good at, and (B) I wonder how much of it was mental and how we were preparing him that way.
He always was what he was - even in high school - so it just seems weird we tried to fit a round peg in a square hole in terms of our offense. He didn’t shoot off of screens, he created off the dribble and attacked the hoop, things our offense doesn’t even really attempt to have our guards do. So yes, bad fit, but how much of that is on him and how much is not us putting him a position to make use of his skills? I don’t know. (Also, comparisons to Shayok and Thompson don’t make a ton of sense to me cause even though they excelled elsewhere, they were still good in our offense, and they transferred because a bunch of NBA talent was about to take their minutes, which is not the current situation)
On the mental side, I’ve said this multiple times, but the vibes for the past two years just haven’t felt right (which is an insanely ambiguous thing to say I know). I don’t know if that’s a lack of player leadership, a poor personnel fit, coaches and players not being on the same page, or what, but not only has leadership on floor seemingly been lacking, the guys haven’t seemed to be having a lot of fun out there very often. Casey and many others have just looked stressed, and more relieved when things went well than excited. That combined with some of what Casey said to reporters when asked about the transfer just makes me wonder what the locker room has been like recently.
Anyways, that’s a lot of words to say I think it was just a system fit and it’s good for everyone that the guys here that didn’t want to be here aren’t here any more. Just sucks it didn’t work out, cause he seems like a good kid.
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It was one game. He led the Hoos in scoring in a game once too.
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Yeah I’m certainly not going to take much from a 20 point game against Colgate, he had multiple games like that for UVA (asu, notre dame). I’m sure he will do better for nc state than he did here largely in part because it’s tough to do any worse and because he will have the ball in his hands more. He had every opportunity to succeed at UVA and was pretty horrible. Casey was obviously a really bad shooter at UVA but I thought his handle was almost just as bad. He rarely beat his man off the bounce or made any plays at the rim. I’d be pretty shocked if he does much for State.
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He’s also had zero assists so far. He was a black hole when the ball got to him for the most part. He’s gonna get his now but I’m not sure he makes state better as a team.
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I think Zags are a top 5 team masquerading as a consensus 1, and TX is a top 20 team masquerading as a 5.
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Oh yeah, and to be clear, I just started my comments with “If he has a good/great season…” It’s more likely than not that he reverts back to career averages, maybe with slight improvement.
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That kind of sounds like us at the beginning of last season.
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This is fun until you start realizing Duke is a top 3 team masquerading as a top 3 team
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Wendell Carter got hurt tonight and they were losing to Campbell, had to pull it out in the second half.
Yeah, Duke dominated on national TV, but the box score v Campbell doesn’t look like a great performance. Seems like the major question is how well they’re gonna shoot…
And depth. They have similar issues as we do… just better players.
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