(10-29-2022 03:05 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote: (10-29-2022 02:27 PM)Big Red Wrote: (10-29-2022 02:02 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote: I am curious if Durosinmi will be valuable to this team. He seems to have some size and when he was at Harcum College, he can put up some points. He has Div. 1 exp. playing with the Bonnie's last year so it will be interesting.
I'm only basing this off of Burno's comments the other day, but the reason I don't see him starting right now (or ever, tbh) is Burno never even mentioned him in the press conference. To be honest, it took a long time for him to even mention Niederhäuser, so I was a little surprised he's not excited about a 6'10 freshman who plays for the Swiss national team.
The only "big" other than Crump he talked about was Amos but he said they're taking it slow with him and the other freshmen because they have a learning curve and you want them to learn at the pace that is right for them.
I think Durosinmi will play minutes though for the reasons you mentioned and they're going to need someone to absorb fouls on the inside. He's perfectly built for that. But as far as "playing" for the Bonnies last year, I'd say most of his experience came in the form of practice as he only got into 9 games and averaged just 4 minutes each game and that is really inflated because he played 22 (out of his 36) minutes in 1 game (and he scored a whopping 2 points in those 22 minutes in a game they lost by 23 points). It's not nothing for sure, but it's not all that much.
Btw, those 2 points he scored in that one game? Yeah, that was the only points he scored the entire season. This kid is a post presence. That's it. Defense and rebounding. If we can get that, and he's not a liability, then I think the acquisition is fine.
I just hope he's more competent than Osten was last year.
Agree with what you said, BR. The only reason I brought up about his past Bonnie experience was that beside the returning 5 players from last year, Durosinmi was The only other player on the teams that has played against and practiced with Div1 players. For the rest of the team, Div 1 competition will be a new facet for them.
Oh, I definitely agree and was hoping Burno would bring in someone (hell, almost anyone) who had any kind of age and/or experience in the post. There was a JUCO guy who looked like a damn middle aged man who got an offer and ended up going elsewhere. I forget his name. His stats suggested he could score a little (and I do mean a little) at the JUCO level but everything else (video, etc) suggested this dude was no nonsense inside and he sure as hell looked it too.
I really wanted him. Durosinmi kind of looks similar. He's big and strong and kind of looks tough. He also has a year of playing with D1 guys in practice every day who I'm sure played physical with him. My hopes are low for him but he could be valuable to the team in ways we never see. Like in practice or by absorbing fouls and helping to protect the rim, which is something Burno has talked about with this team. He mentioned bringing in rim protectors and guys like Durosinmi, Niederhäuser, Amos and Crump (and...the big practice body of Ibarguen) should put guys on the floor who can do that to different levels of competence.
From everything I can interpret from Burno, I think they worked on Crump to be better with this. Last year, he put on significant muscle and size and Burno defnitely liked playing him more in the inside than outside. Personally, when Crump ever did anything with the ball on the outside, he infuriated me but last year, doing more things on the inside, he looked like he was much less mistake prone and could use his length to his advantage.
Burno called Crump a "senior" in the press conference but in the HoT interview, Crump said he has "one more year" and I took that as he was talking about after this year. And I'm sure Brandon did as well because he referred to Crump as a junior.
If Crump does in fact have 2 years left of eligibility remaning, he might actually develop into a pretty decent player now that Burno figured out how to use him.
With that said, I do believe Crump still thinks he's a guard because he said he models his game after Penny Hardaway. On one hand, I shake my head. But on the other hand, I'm actually pleased to see that a young fella like Anthony Crump actually knows what kind of player Penny was when he played.
Btw, Burno is a bit of a hard listen to on a press conference. It's pretty obvious he doesn't like attention and looks uncomfortable and fidgets a lot. He even misspoke pretty badly at least twice in the press conference. I forget the other one but the first one that stood out to me was he said, "Zion Williams". He had just spoken about Keshawn and then started talking about Zion and I think the name was just in his head but no one pointed it out and he didn't realize he said it.
I think they should have warm-up shirts made with their names on the back and on the back of Keshawn's it says Williams and on the back of Zion's it says "Williams".
But Burno seems like the type of guy who probably feels really bad about the mistake and, if it's been brought to his attention, he's probably genuinely apologized to Zion about it and will never forgive himself.
