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Current KenPom All-Conference USA team:
1. Nick King, MTSU
2. Chris Cokley, UAB
3. Jon Elmore, Marshall
4. Justin Johnson, WKU
5. Dwight Coleby, WKU
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I have not glanced at the CUSA only stats but I have to wonder if there are not a couple of guys that might displace one of the WKU guys.
Not that both are not good. They are. But maybe one should be pushed down to the 2nd team.
I had hoped Lee would push for first team and Nick for 3rd. Now, Nick isn't even close and HaHa might not make 3rd team. But he could.
Elmores efficiency is down a good bit this year but nobody scores & assists more.
As for Player of the year. Probably not going to be Coke just because the best we can do is 4th or 5th.
They'd prefer not to give it to one & done guys too. Last year, they had to.
But, Im pulling for Coke. And a 3 seed. (Its possible, if the top 3 teams just each go on a massive losing spree)
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RE: Current KenPom All-Conference USA team:
(02-05-2018 04:17 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Bryant won't be freshman of the year because of what that kid at UTSA is doing, but he is a shoo in for all freshman team. Don't think we will have any qualify for sixth man award. Lee will make at least third team based on his blocks and name recognition. Might make 2nd team. Don't think he will get Defensive POY again, but then I was surprised when he got the other years.
Penava will be Defensive POY. Voters love the Block stat and he's getting 4.7 a game and leading the nation.
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RE: Current KenPom All-Conference USA team:
Yeah, I'd have voted him "Most Likely to transfer back to Europe" after last season.
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RE: Current KenPom All-Conference USA team:
(02-05-2018 04:58 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote: (02-05-2018 04:42 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote: (02-05-2018 04:17 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Bryant won't be freshman of the year because of what that kid at UTSA is doing, but he is a shoo in for all freshman team. Don't think we will have any qualify for sixth man award. Lee will make at least third team based on his blocks and name recognition. Might make 2nd team. Don't think he will get Defensive POY again, but then I was surprised when he got the other years.
Penava will be Defensive POY. Voters love the Block stat and he's getting 4.7 a game and leading the nation.
Which is crazy. Had you told me that last year that he was going to average 16 points and nearly 5 blocks a game this year I would have thought you were delusional.
We need to use that blueprint for Gueye. He had a block last game.
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RE: Current KenPom All-Conference USA team:
(02-05-2018 04:17 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Bryant won't be freshman of the year because of what that kid at UTSA is doing, but he is a shoo in for all freshman team. Don't think we will have any qualify for sixth man award. Lee will make at least third team based on his blocks and name recognition. Might make 2nd team. Don't think he will get Defensive POY again, but then I was surprised when he got the other years.
He has not played as well in conference play. I sort of saw it coming as he was taking some poor shots...but making them. And then as teams learn how to guard him, they have made it harder for him to do what he did earlier in the year.
Still love his upside though.
I'm pretty sure we are still going after guards. Maybe even a point guard.
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RE: Current KenPom All-Conference USA team:
I just glanced at the CUSA only stats. Have to think Marshalls Burks belongs at the top rather than one of the WKU forwards.
Burks is the conference scoring leader and he leads the conference in in 3 point % at 45.1.
Both of WKUs guys are really good too. So who gets pushed down to 2nd team?
As for the POY race...
Coke is at 19.7 ppg and 9.3 rpg
King 18.8 ppg and 9.5 rpg
Johnson 16.5 ppg and 11.0 rpg
The stats are too close for them to pick a guy from a team that is 4th or lower when its probably going to whichever team is 1st or 2nd.
If its unclear which team will win he the conference, they will go with a 4 year player like Johnson. But if its clear MTSU is going to win the conference, King will get it.
Stupid CUSA stats only has 4 players listed for 3 point shooting %. Perhaps because they have a silly minimum of 3 made per game. Not sure where else to find a listing of all cusa players 3 point % since they deem only 4 worthy of the list. I was trying to find Kings 3 point % in cusa only games and its not there. Unless you go to MTSUs site.
I guess what Im trying to say is Coke will not be POY because he is not on a team that is a contender for the regular season title. Because he is not head & shoulders above other options from better teams.
But he is a first team lock. So is Bryant for the all freshman team.
Lee, unless he just averages 18 & 8 the rest of the season, is probably not going to make even 3rd team because there are too many good players with much better points & rebounds stats even if they don't have his number of blocks.
Nick is 2nd in CUSA in assists to turnover ratio but 7th in total assists. And his scoring is not even in the top 50 in PPG as he is below 8.7 ppg.
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