Heres taineās stats from that fiba summer thing he was at playing against oceanic teams and whatnot (low major quality opponents)
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Same. Heās subbed in totally cold while everyone else out there is fully warmed up. Seems like mentally heās hyper aware that heās a deep bench guy and needs to defer to the regular starters that heās playing with. His shot always looks pure and heās actually had some decent drives and finishes at the rim this season
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Big time play to put us up 4 going into half at GaTech. He makes those hustle plays when we lack energy and toughness at times.
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All this talk about Rohde, Dante, Eli, and Taine brought a thought to mind: where would this team be if Armaan had come back for his Covid year? Weāve talked about keeping one of Kadin or Papi. But what if Armaan was back and at least at his 2022/23 level? Could that team contend for the ACC regular season even with the front court concerns?
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@chavlicek15 may have thoughts on this
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Donāt know about how good that team would be, but if Armaan was still around, then I donāt think Rohde would be here. Whether thatās a net positive or negative is up to you to decide.
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His Fiba play shows otherwise. Even out of HS his 3pt shooting wasnt great. And he isnt a great defender or facilitator. He can drive it if his man closes out on him but thats also dependent on a facilitator setting him up in that position with the ball moving ahead of the defense
Which means if you want to play him that cuts into McKneelys minutes. And Mckneely should only be sitting when he isnt hunting his shot or for Bond/Dunn for defensive reasons.
Very much side with @Cuts_from_The_Corner take on Taine
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Would mean a whole lot more of Dante Harris. Armaan showed a lot of toughness inside though. Was literally our best power forward. And we would get 3 nuclear 3pt shooting games from him which would be fun
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Nah - we would be worse because Armaan canāt be the secondary initiator like Rohde.
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What does this even mean?
What would Tony say?
Luke 16:10
Yea would agree it means no Rohde. 1-3 rotations would probably be more compact and something like:
Reece-35 MPG
Armaan-32 MPG
Isaac- 32 MPG
Dante-21 MPG
Just thinks everyone would slot better. Teams couldnāt key so heavily on Isaac with Armaan also a threat to score. People would probably still complain about a lack of Elijah PT. But I think that offense would be at least top 75 instead of around 150 like it is currently
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Kinda tracks with my theory that if Rohde gets to 35-37% from three itāll unlock a ton for us. Need him to pull a freshman year and start hitting midway through the season.
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I missed the origin of the secondary initiator. Is that something Tony said, the commentators, someone on here?
If we had a better rebounding center, I wonder if we would have seen a 4 guard look?
Reece Gertrude McKneely Rohde Established rebounding center. Unfortunately our best rebounder is Dunn who is too thin to defend pure 5s and better off as a free-roaming help defender at the 4 spot. I guess lineups with Groves at the 4 technically are 4 guard looks. And Dunn does list himself as a guardā¦
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Movers are defined as ball handlers. Decision makers all 3 of them.
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I think it refers to the vaunted hockey assist in basketball. Which doesnt exist
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I get what it means. Iāve just noticed it being used as a punchline on here recently so I figured someone used the phrase āsecondary initiatorā on TV or something.
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do you know how many second assists I wouldāve had growing up? Wellā¦ not too many as I was not good at basketballā¦ but there wouldāve been some possibilities.
Itās so weird with Rohdeās 3pt shot because even in high school he was agood 3pt shooter.
Was 40% on heavy volume at Peach jam. I think itās a mix of mechanical (so many in and outs) and getting comfortable with his different role (I think back to the tweet that said Rohde sucks off ball but is good on ball. Rohde also played on ball more vs GT while Reece took that āsecondary initiatorā off attacking the basketā¦ while also racking up 11 assistsā¦ man Reece is so based its hilarious)
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