(02-02-2019 07:27 PM)brock20 Wrote: (02-02-2019 07:15 PM)posterformerlyknownasthedoctor Wrote: Who doubted? Here are just a smattering of comments. There were others; don't need to dig them all up:
PreacherPurl:
"Don't see this as his last stop. So glad Forbes & Co. passed on him."
brock20:
"Big difference between playing against Lee High who has 5’11 post players vs Big East teams with 6’5 point guards. I think he is a nice player but based on most his offers and from other coaches he should be playing mid major next year. Omar Wattad was the best high school prospect from this area in the past 15 or so years and he had trouble getting minutes at Georgetown."
brock20:
"This kid is not Steph Curry. Come on, People are enamored with him because he is a white 5'10 kid that can dunk. Omar was a much better D1 prospect. He had the height and skill for the next level."
[and.......] "I think he could be a good player at the mid major level. At the power 5 level you not only have to have elite skill and work ethic, but most of the time you have to have won the genetic lottery as well. I know someone is going to point out so and so who was short but those are the exceptions, not the rule."
BucDoctor:
"I think he made a decent choice, I don't see him as quick enough to play at ETSU. I'm a wait and see person on him, but never the less..."
ekxixis1984:
"He made his choice, wish him the best of luck, and that should be the end of the discussion, unless we create a whole new section of the forum called "the could-have beens and where are they now?"
I still don’t think he is that great. I’m not alone. He shoots a horrible percentage, has lots of turnovers and not an great defender. He had 2 major offers out of high school. They are giving him a chance to succeed so it looks like he will put up lots of points and highlights. In the process Georgetown will continue to be an average big east team. He would have been a very good mid major player. That is where every division 1 coach but 2 thought he should be at.
The number of things you have said wrong on here would fill a book. I don’t have time to go back and look up your thoughts on guys like Benny Lufille and Julian Walters but your takes on here are bad and always have been.
What!? What are you talking about? I hardly had on opinion on Lufile. I bet I didn't mention him more than half a dozen times. Maybe something like "it'd be nice to see what he could do", or something like that - but I was NOT a huge Lufile advocate. I don't know who you're confusing me with on that. And I'm the one who *repeatedly* pointed out the slow and low release on Walters's shot. (Which is not to say I didn't like him in some other ways.) I think most posters on this board were higher on him than I was. Walters might have eventually been successful here - had there been a guard or two less he had to compete against.
Have I been wrong on some things here and there? Of course. And I certainly don't mind admitting them when that happens. This is a discussion board after all, with opinions and theories, etc. all over the place. But I don't put words in others' mouths. Quite the opposite, in fact - which is why I took the time to post all those quotes.
You may not be "alone" in thinking he's not that great, but I think your colleagues in that camp are dwindling down. The Big East coaches seem to like him, John Thompson "loves" him; Ewing obviously loves him a lot; the tv commentators go ga-ga over him. Millions of people who see his youtube dunk videos love him (altho I know that doesn't carry much weight). No, he isn't the best shooter in the world, but he's gotten A LOT better after missing his first 15 or so attempts this year. He's actually hit 16 out of his last 41 from deep. And he's shooting in the vicinity of 50% (maybe not quite) overall the last 6 games. But as I said earlier, he's more a "disruptor" than anything else. He's brings lots of intangibles, and headaches, to the oppostion. Why do you think he's been starting all year? While I thought perhaps his D might be his weak spot, he's been at least adequate - better than I thought, actually. And he had more than 2 major offers out of high school. I have already corrected you on that previously. But since you've apparently forgotten..........he got offers from Rutgers, Georgetown, Seton Hall, BC, College of Charleston, Air Force, ETSU, Chatt, Hofstra, Duquesne, Kent St., Marshall, Murray St., ODU, Yale, Rice, and I think that's enough, even tho there's even more. Maybe you'll remember some of them from now on.
No, I'm not saying he's Steph Curry; I'm not saying McClung will be able to play in The League, but I am saying he's athletic enough. But it takes much more than that. I *am* saying he's more than capable of playing, and starting, in the Big East as a freshman, and anyone paying attention must say the same thing - because it' clearly reality.