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He is playing alongside the uncontested CAA preseason player of the year. Lee's very good but along with Drexel is not quite as good as advertised this season

And yes RR they should drill us this season. Not disputing that

(12-11-2012 08:02 AM)ODUR8R Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 12:55 AM)Razor Ramon Monarch Wrote:  [quote='ODUR8R' pid='8679415' dateline='1355191186']
No doubt he's a great player but he's slightly overrated. His percentages are down this season without Fouch and Givens and he has absolutely zero floor game.

He's basically a better shooting Batten that plays more minutes. Lee has a negative assist to turnover ratio and has 11 steals on the season which is pathetic considering he plays huge minutes for Bruiser Flint.

You are absolutely just looking for crap when you post total steals (which is at 1 per game which actually isn't that bad) and assist to turnover ratio for a shooting guard! He's not supposed to rack up assists, he's there to shoot and score, which he does better than anyone currently on odu or Drexel.

And you are still ignoring the bigger point which is that he's a 6"7 shooting guard with deep range and we have no one that can match up with him.

A better taller batten with more rebounding and better defense??? That suppose to be a criticism or something?

Give it a rest. The kids only a feaking sophomore and he's a borderline first team all caa player (although in this years caa that isn't saying very much). Regardless, Drexel will still drill us this year because we simply can't match up with them.

They beat us twice last year with baze and coop. Good luck getting painter to go for
15-20 against that front court. I'll believe it when I see it.

Oh and adopted, I really don't care whether you are excited or not for the game, I'm just excited for the possibility of us getting a new coach at the end of this season.

You will be too eventually, once you see that we CAN, in fact, land big recruits here with the right guy in charge. I believe wood will do a good job and do the right thing.

1-9 after ucf and 3 straight blowouts will be pretty tough to swallow for odu's more casual fans. You could see attendance drop drastically after the third straight blowout/semi-blowout at home to teams we use to be just as good as if not better than.

Hard to justify we are "building" towards anything at that point.
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I was incorrect he has 3 steals and 11 assists on the season. So he's a 1 dimensional player who is having a worse season without Fouch and Givens. He's a nice talent but overrated

so let me get this straight......a sophomore shooting guard is a one dimesional player who is having a worse season simply because he has less steals per game? He's averaging just as many assists as last year but 6 more points per game than last year. Drexel's played a pretty tough schedule and he's averaging 18 a game which is more than any player has EVER averaged in a season under Blaine Taylor, even caa players of the year? And he's doing it as a sophomore?

So because he doesn't have steals he sucks and is one dimensional? Any sane rational person would take damion lee in a heartbeat over anyone currently on odu's roster.

The kid is a legit NBA prospect with his height and shooting ability and he's only a sophomore. I have no clue what is going on in some of our fans heads sometimes. I'd trade anyone on our current team for him in the blink of an eye and so would anyone else. He's a shooting guard, he's not Baze, he's there to score and that's exactly what he does.

Never said he wasn't a good player. He's just overrated and one dimensional. Drexel is worse this season with Damion Lee taking a larger role in the offense and his percentages are down as well

He has 3 total steals on the season and 11 assists and the one time I saw him at the TEd. Baze out 37 On him exclusively. So that's my personal opinion. PPG averages don't mean much to me. I you go by that then Monta Elllis is one of the best players in the NBA.

Lee is a good scoreer. He's shooting 33% from 3 on the year. If he wants to make the NBA as a spot up shooter and no defensive game or ability to set up his teammates, he better work on his 3 point shot.

He's shooting 46% from the field though, pretty much exactly the same as he shot last year and with fouch now out of the lineup, he will continue to draw the other teams best defender.

I also believe he had a slow start to the season because of an injury. His two lowest totals of the season were his first two games and then he sat out 2 games with an injury. Since coming back he's been lights out though and will only continue to improve as the year progresses.

As a sophomore, he is FARRRRRR ahead of where baze was offensively his soph. Year but trailing defensively. Bruiser will teach him how to play solid defense by his senior year, I have no doubt of that.

But calling him overrated as a sophomore is insane. He's the best SG in the caa by a mile.

He's simply overrated because he is not living up to his lofty expectations. I belies he was 1st preseason? His team is 3-6 and he has had a regression instead of a natural progression so far

He did have a mild neck injury early on. He's not the only one in the horrific CAA who is having a regression as a sophomore. Jarvis Threatt and Batten are also not living up to expectations for different reasons

Lee is a very good player and would clearly be one of our best players. I question his athleticism when it comes to future NBA projections. He has a RIP Hamilton type frame which means he better expand his game

(12-10-2012 03:54 PM)ODU Hugh Wrote:  Ugh...I have more interest in if Blaine leaves than the rest of the season.

Sounds to me like you better get more into the basketball, BT heading out to the midwest to recruit, doesn't sound like a guy that knows he's on the way out. Per the coaches show.

Did we lose yet?

How did a thread about our game Central Florida turn into a discussion about Drexel?

(12-11-2012 05:19 PM)Old Dominion Navy Wrote:  How did a thread about our game Central Florida turn into a discussion about Drexel?

There really isn't anything left that needs to be said about our team, might as well talk about other teams...

(12-11-2012 10:20 AM)ODUR8R Wrote:  He's simply overrated because he is not living up to his lofty expectations. I belies he was 1st preseason? His team is 3-6 and he has had a regression instead of a natural progression so far

He did have a mild neck injury early on. He's not the only one in the horrific CAA who is having a regression as a sophomore. Jarvis Threatt and Batten are also not living up to expectations for different reasons

Lee is a very good player and would clearly be one of our best players. I question his athleticism when it comes to future NBA projections. He has a RIP Hamilton type frame which means he better expand his game

He's not having a regression!!! He's averaging 6 more points a game than he was last year despite having an injury!

He's going to lead the caa in scoring per game as a sophomore. Regression because he has a few less steals??? Insanity. And you can hardly fault him for those losses.....he's played very well.....those losses are on bruiser not a sophomore sg leading the team and conference in scoring.

Insanity.

He's shooting worse from the field, averaging less steals and less assists despite playing more minutes and the team that is depending on him to carry a larger role is 3-6 and dead instead of chasing an at large bid.

You call it insanity, I call it facts. Look them up for yourself.

Lee is actually 3rd in the conference in scoring and 28th in roland average this season whereas last season he was 6th as a freshman.

He has 3 steals on the season, either one of us could double that with the minutes he's getting.

(12-11-2012 07:45 PM)ODUR8R Wrote:  He's shooting worse from the field, averaging less steals and less assists despite playing more minutes and the team that is depending on him to carry a larger role is 3-6 and dead instead of chasing an at large bid.

You call it insanity, I call it facts. Look them up for yourself.

Lee is actually 3rd in the conference in scoring and 28th in roland average this season whereas last season he was 6th as a freshman.

He has 3 steals on the season, either one of us could double that with the minutes he's getting.

he's shooting .2% worse from the field this season than last season. That is absolutely what you would call statistically insignificant. But 6 more points per game is an absolute improvement from his freshman to sophomore year.

He's also averaged 20 a game since coming back from his neck injury and watch, by the end of this season his fg% and points per game etc. Will all have improved significantly because he is going to absolutely torch a crappy crappy caa this year.

My guess is he will average 20 a game for the season, will be first team all caa and will improve his rebounding quite a bit as well.

Overrated is the last word I'd use to describe a sophomore averaging 20 points a game.

I don't think his rebounding will improve because he's rarely close to the basket, but otherwise I agree with Razor. Lee is just as good if not better than last year and will continue to get better. He is not overrated if he is leading his team as a sophomore, now is he?

First 2nd half lead in a month?