Yancy has what it takes to at least make an NBA roster. Its really up to him, which he has acknowledged himself.

(03-10-2012 01:22 PM)Butterfly Wrote:  ... Most of this year, all but a few games, he's played pretty good. Last...we'll say third of last 1/3 of his junior year, he was pretty good. Right now, he's playing great. With him only being 21, he's going to get bigger, stronger. His skills in the post, are going to improve, as he's getting more comfortable. I think his mid range game will become more consistent and so too, his free throw shooting. He's got much too pretty a shot, to stay around 60%.

I think he'll thrive, if he chooses to continue on into the pros. That's his choice though.

Detroit Basketball

The Pistons win the lottery...select Anthony Davis with the 1st overall pick and Yancy Gates with an early second round guaranteed pick.

(03-10-2012 01:29 PM)Bearcatbdub Wrote:  Neither Georgetown or Syracuse could guard him in the low post. I want to see him backing Dieng down tonight.

gates always seems to make some funky shots. i think that is his signature move, the funky. he's so unorthodox. then again, our entire team is. like a band of traveling gypsies. we might bore you on occasion, but we will intermittently entertain. keep you glued to your seats... for a fantastic finish!

(03-10-2012 01:23 PM)Lush Wrote:  i believe yancy is the most criticized player of the cronin era. but yes from the comments mentioned above there's good reasoning as to why he hasn't "lived up to the hype." we couldn't see that though. we wanted to win, win, win. and yancy persevered. maybe the most talented, humbled big man to wear a uc jersey. the man don't sulk if he doesn't get his touches. he makes his touches. in spurts he does, but i kind of wish he'd earlier adopted eric's baby eating mentality. i mean yancy's a big dude. can you still swing elbows like kenyon use to? man this thread's got me all nostalgic. yancy's going to up there with those guys. though they say stats don't tell the whole story, yancy's in a way do. he was a reliable player and we are going to miss him.

Leonta Vaughn??? Adam Hrycaniuk???

I think he saved his best for last.

I'll miss him.

(03-10-2012 01:39 PM)SeniorBearcat Wrote:  

(03-10-2012 01:23 PM)Lush Wrote:  i believe yancy is the most criticized player of the cronin era. but yes from the comments mentioned above there's good reasoning as to why he hasn't "lived up to the hype." we couldn't see that though. we wanted to win, win, win. and yancy persevered. maybe the most talented, humbled big man to wear a uc jersey. the man don't sulk if he doesn't get his touches. he makes his touches. in spurts he does, but i kind of wish he'd earlier adopted eric's baby eating mentality. i mean yancy's a big dude. can you still swing elbows like kenyon use to? man this thread's got me all nostalgic. yancy's going to up there with those guys. though they say stats don't tell the whole story, yancy's in a way do. he was a reliable player and we are going to miss him.

Leonta Vaughn??? Adam Hrycaniuk???

i was going to mention deonta, but with him, i think it was mostly bitching. we weren't going anywhere, but i still give deonta props. he felt the burden was his to carry. he wasn't a bad player. but with yancy, it's mick's first coup. the hometown hero out to save the program and criticized because we thought he could lead us to a promised land of sorts. ok, maybe i'm being a bit dramatic. but certainly adam h isn't worthy of this conversation. he was a euro juco who sat out one year for us and adjusted to big time athletics for the first time in his life. if we had him for two years, sh!t, he still posted decent numbers.

He pwned the best bigs in this league.
Fab Melo, Andre Drummond+Oriakhai, Henry Sims.
My thing, with the Fortson comparison, dude played against 6-6, 6-7 bigs in C-USA that couldn't hold a candle to todays bigs. These guys are freaks. They're athletic, skilled and massive. Eric Hicks was a hard worker, but Gates is more of a normal big. That will be to his advantage. Fortson was traded around the NBA, as the new bigs were a completely different mold than him, could hit jump shots and do more. He became undesirable. Hicks was just too short. Maxiell, is just tall enough and does enough things to stay on a roster. He's had some good moments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5h2mMRovGY

In fact, he's had some good games as of late, I think.

I have been very vocal about Yancy's attitude and how I feel about it. I did mention after the G'Town game that he has a golden opportunity to change his image completely. If this play continues no one will care about the laziness that plagued most of his career. He is what he is, but when he plays with purpose he is damn near impossible to keep off the boards and can change the game on the offensive end. Believe me I am trying to focus on the positives as much as I possibly can right now, but when I give it too much thought I begin to wonder what could have been had he always played with this type of fire.