This is amazing footage. #1 can play for my team any day. Guy has moxie
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If you ever wanted to know what it would look like for this board to get together a team and play a low division 1 team this would be it 
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They lookā¦kinda OK if you just look at their made baskets?
https://x.com/cbbcontent/status/1736248670188712096?s=46&t=wAzMZR-0PRGT1LpN6U5x0g
Probably worth remembering that next time you watch recruit highlights; those edits are presenting extremely best-case scenarios 100% of the time.
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He traveled in the first basket
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Thank you for that cleanse. The lowlights were particularly unsettling.
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One of our more interesting regular season games of the past few seasons. I feel like there are so many unknowns still, which is usually not the case with our teams. Big loss like Wisconsin would be concerning, otherwise Iāll be generally happy with the non-con performance
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See?!?! What did I tell you all about #1? Guy is a bucket. My favorite play is when heās posting up the NDSU center and demanding the ball. (okay, flashing to the middle of a zone, but same difference)
If Iām coaching Oak Hill Christian, my gameplan is feed #1 until heās too tired to shoot, and then, and only then, can the rest of you shoot.
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Remind me not to play for your team sir
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All of his shots look like heās too tired to shoot.
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Yup, ātired of carrying the whole dang team on his shouldersā kind of tired
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Tired like heās been carrying around this shotput all day.
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Iām no shot doctor or analyst, but his shot just looks weird to me, the way his hands kinda fling outward after every shot.
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ESPN2
PBP - Jay Alter
Color - Randolph Childress
Those clips look like the math club and the chess club had the gym to themselves for an all nerd scrimmage.
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Memphis the great melting pot for transfer refugees.
Iām sure none of those fellas getting any nil money???
Said no one ever.
Reminds me a bit of possibly my all-time favorite scene from Big Bang Theory, when Sheldon and Kripke decide to settle who gets the good office by playing basketball. Everyone else is watching and halfway through, Leonard says āRemember how the jocks used to make fun of us in gym? I kinda get it, now.ā
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Iāve been thinking a lot about #1s shooting form. Initially I also thought he was shot-putting it, but after a few rewatches, I actually think heās doing more of a truncated granny-shot. See how the first thing he does is extend his arms, THEN he lifts them and releases the ball while its still on its way up? I think heād like to be taking those shots underhand but the stage is too big for him to feel entirely comfortable doing it.
Agree with Haney on loving his moxie and hustle, though.
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I think Memphis is a good team.
I also think Memphis is going to struggle A LOT in the half court. Like they did vs Villanova.
The Wisconsin beat down was 4 things
- Wisconsin literally knew our playbook better than ourselves
- Us running primarily offensive sets that didnāt fit the strengths of our roster really
- Dominant post offense by Wisconsin and punshing the doubles/hedges with ball movements (related to point 1)
- Our lack of chemistry and familiarity with the schemes on both ends of the ball vs Wisconsin being an older veteran team that returned most of itās team from last year.
That and we wonāt be sleep walking and hopefully Gertrude and Rohde are good to go. Quinerly/Jones will have not faced a defensive duo like Reece/Dunn. And that Memphis has athletes but if they are not sound defensively we should be able to punish any pressure defense like A&M or FSU teams of past. If we cut the head off the snake with reece on quinerly, the rest of their team is just a bunch of transfers who outside attacking in transition or in iso may not have the familiarity to execute well enough in grind it out half court ball.
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Agreed. But can we actually put the ball in the basket? Thatās what concerns me.
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That Houston team was WAY better than this Memphis team. Way tougher environment too.
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