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(01-14-2020 04:08 PM)Chillie Willie Wrote:  

(01-13-2020 11:57 PM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  All of this rhetoric about guys not playing as freshmen under Jeff because they weren't good enough is just hard to believe. If ODU was putting 5 superstars on the court I could see it. As pathetic as ODU looked in their last game, Hunter wasn't substituted in before the last minute of the game. It is a hard sell to simply state that he wasn't good enough to play when nearly everyone else was positively awful.

Apparently Fields has grown significantly taller since he is now playing defense "at this level". Actually Radford may well be above us at this point. You just can't make this stuff up.

EDIT: One of ODU's better defensive guards - 5'-9" Duffy Samuels. I would much rather have a smaller point guard than have a smaller center and/or power forward like ODU has today. As long as the point guard can stay in front of his opponent he can force the outside shot. Being too short at center and power forward means that they all too often can't stop the opponent from taking the close in shot. Big difference.

Just for accuracy, Hunter played a few minutes midway through the second half.

Thanks. Yes, I see now that he played a total of 3 minutes. I'm sure he could have played more and not had any worse affect on the outcome than several others that played 20+ minutes. Oliver for example played 21 minutes, had 1 rebound and nothing else offensively speaking to show for his time. Green played nearly the whole game (36 minutes), had 1 assist, 2 points (1 for 12 shooting), and 5 rebounds. Between the two of them that's 57 minutes (28.5%) of the 200 minutes total the team played and producing a paltry 1 assist, 2 points, and 6 rebounds.