(01-08-2019 09:25 AM)Gary Miller Wrote:  

(01-08-2019 08:53 AM)Seahawksilver Wrote:  

(01-08-2019 08:37 AM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote:  I'm all for Taylor, Gadsden and O'Connell getting more than 3 min. Elmore I'm still not sold on. He's progressing a bit, but just not ready for significant minutes IMO.

Did you go to the Furman game? Did you watch the game? The kid was solid during his extended play. They finally let him run and he produced. Shoot, he even was selected player of the week on the TV show they have for that week. The player that scored on him in the post, scored on everyone in the post if that is your apprehension. In all my years of watching the game, I can probably count on 1 hand how many players make an impact coming off the bench for 3 min total in a game. But the way things are going, we will probably never know.
All that being said, let's just keep winning!

Elmore is the 4th best player in our frontcourt rotation, his minutes are justified. It's not a knock on him, but he missed a whole year of basketball activity due to his knee surgery. I mean he was still missing time during the preseason.... There is a future here for Elmore, especially after Cacok and O'Connell are gone. He's only a sophomore.

Exactly. I'll add at least one point here on the "4th best player in our frontcourt rotation", and that is we are now in conference play and this IS NOT the time to give players minutes to evaluate if they can be a consistent contributor. That was happening during our OOC, and is there ANYONE who thinks Elmore should be playing ahead of Cylla or O'Connell? No. Okay then. And we're darn sure not okay with any minutes dropped from Cacok if he's not in foul trouble.

All that being said, he has made improvement over his freshman year but not enough to be taking minutes from Cylla or O'Connell who are both on a tear in recent games.

Aside from that, the only game in which we've really seen any significant play time from Elmore was in that Furman game in which we were blown out badly.