(11-07-2018 03:16 PM)shampoo Wrote:  Armus needs to go for the dunk and draw the foul. He’s not springy enough to hold the ball and keep pump faking against truer athletes. He got swarmed on his many layup attempts, a number of them blocked or the ball stripped while hesitating. Turn around shots were weak, hopefully just a bad shooting night. The dunks were fast and made a statement. The rebounding was great.

(11-08-2018 07:02 AM)BigIslandBuc Wrote:  

(11-07-2018 03:16 PM)shampoo Wrote:  Armus needs to go for the dunk and draw the foul. He’s not springy enough to hold the ball and keep pump faking against truer athletes. He got swarmed on his many layup attempts, a number of them blocked or the ball stripped while hesitating. Turn around shots were weak, hopefully just a bad shooting night. The dunks were fast and made a statement. The rebounding was great.

One of my many pet peeves watching basketball is inside players who have a size advantage on those guarding them who shoot weak tap ups or push shots near the basket. I see our bigs dunking in warmups with a mere flexing of their ankles and yet in games to this point they are constantly lobbing the ball above the basket hoping for a friendly bounce. If you have the advantage in size and position, dunk the ball. If you lob it up, three things will happen : you will score, you will miss or the defender may get a finger on the ball requiring the official to make a call on whether it was goaltending. I would rather not leave it in the refs' hands. Dunk it and as you say you are more likely to get a call if you are fouled. A long standing issue with me. Every time I see it, I howl at the TV screen, which is why I watch basketball in the most isolated part of the house.

(11-08-2018 08:55 AM)posterformerlyknownasthedoctor Wrote:  

(11-08-2018 07:02 AM)BigIslandBuc Wrote:  

(11-07-2018 03:16 PM)shampoo Wrote:  Armus needs to go for the dunk and draw the foul. He’s not springy enough to hold the ball and keep pump faking against truer athletes. He got swarmed on his many layup attempts, a number of them blocked or the ball stripped while hesitating. Turn around shots were weak, hopefully just a bad shooting night. The dunks were fast and made a statement. The rebounding was great.

One of my many pet peeves watching basketball is inside players who have a size advantage on those guarding them who shoot weak tap ups or push shots near the basket. I see our bigs dunking in warmups with a mere flexing of their ankles and yet in games to this point they are constantly lobbing the ball above the basket hoping for a friendly bounce. If you have the advantage in size and position, dunk the ball. If you lob it up, three things will happen : you will score, you will miss or the defender may get a finger on the ball requiring the official to make a call on whether it was goaltending. I would rather not leave it in the refs' hands. Dunk it and as you say you are more likely to get a call if you are fouled. A long standing issue with me. Every time I see it, I howl at the TV screen, which is why I watch basketball in the most isolated part of the house.

While I don't disagree with all that...……….Armus did dunk it at least twice, with authority. And didn't maybe that equal his dunks for all of last year? That is likely an exaggeration, but to my eyes, he moved way in that direction. Maybe so much so that his extremely effective short lay-ins with either hand were almost absent - or at least relatively speaking. Armus knows sometimes that those are more effective, using the goal as a protection from a block, than trying to dunk it with someone between you and the goal. I was thinking that GSU had watched tape of Armus from last year, and were trying to stop those little lay-ins. To me, this is not a problem. I thought he had clearly moved in the direction of dunking when it was there. There was at least one other time he *maybe* could have done so, but didn't need to.
*Much* more problematic, imo, is him getting stripped before he can go up, or stripped from behind while waiting for a cutter. That happened 3 or 4 times this game. It happened to Rodgriguez once or twice, too.

(11-08-2018 02:45 PM)shampoo Wrote:  I can’t even dunk, so what do I really know! But Armus got abused on many layup attempts at GSU, and he threw up a lot of bad shots. Of course I saw his two dunks, but he was essentially wide open. I’d just like to see more aggressive power moves when he’s being guarded and has an opening to the rim. He’s not a monster athlete, but he’s a monster. Impose thy will.

(11-08-2018 07:56 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  Maybe I'm just so into football right now, but this seems like a complete waste of a game. Not sure this helps in any way.

(11-08-2018 08:26 PM)etsuandpurdue3 Wrote:  

(11-08-2018 07:56 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  Maybe I'm just so into football right now, but this seems like a complete waste of a game. Not sure this helps in any way.

Everyone else is afraid of ETSU.

(11-08-2018 08:32 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  There HAS to be a DII that will play us. That would at least give us SOME competition.