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Post by bluegray79 on Mar 23, 2024 17:45:01 GMT -5
Man, Ed was pretty crafty to dodge that bullet and letting Hunter go to Kansas. Nicely done. Bodes well for this portal session. Let's go!!!
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 23, 2024 18:08:07 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 23, 2024 20:15:28 GMT -5
Wow, thought that late game call was pretty obviously Oakland’s ball, but I guess if you watch the replay with your eyes closed it goes to NC St. 🫣
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 23, 2024 20:36:42 GMT -5
DJ Burns reminded me of Josh Smith.
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Post by aleutianhoya on Mar 23, 2024 21:01:52 GMT -5
Wow, thought that late game call was pretty obviously Oakland’s ball, but I guess if you watch the replay with your eyes closed it goes to NC St. 🫣 I wish I could agree. But I thought it very clearly went off Oakland. NC State got a hand on it while the Oakland kid's hand was still on it and then the Oakland kid followed through and it went out. We all wish Gohlke could have come off a stagger screen for the win.....
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Mar 23, 2024 23:26:44 GMT -5
Creighton with a nice win in double OT against Oregon.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 23, 2024 23:51:02 GMT -5
Wow, thought that late game call was pretty obviously Oakland’s ball, but I guess if you watch the replay with your eyes closed it goes to NC St. 🫣 I wish I could agree. But I thought it very clearly went off Oakland. NC State got a hand on it while the Oakland kid's hand was still on it and then the Oakland kid followed through and it went out. We all wish Gohlke could have come off a stagger screen for the win..... Rewatched it - you’re right of course. Didn’t matter, Gohlke lost his rhythm late in the game. Burns pretty much unstoppable.
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 24, 2024 3:04:51 GMT -5
DJ Burns reminded me of Josh Smith. No one reminds me of Josh Smith. Maybe Butterbean.
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 24, 2024 5:54:18 GMT -5
DJ Burns reminded me of Josh Smith. No one reminds me of Josh Smith. Maybe Butterbean. I even looked him up. He had been playing pro basketball in Japan as recently as 2019! (Smith, that is, not Butterbean!)
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 24, 2024 7:29:00 GMT -5
DJ Burns reminded me of Josh Smith. Sort of similar until one realizes that Smith was 350 pounds and DJ Burns is 275 pounds.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 24, 2024 7:30:42 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 24, 2024 8:01:32 GMT -5
DJ Burns reminded me of Josh Smith. Sort of similar until one realizes that Smith was 350 pounds and DJ Burns is 275 pounds. Interestingly, Smith got his weight down to 290 with the Nagoya Diamond Dragons and is still playing as of 2023! It's like saying Zach Edey reminds me of Roy Hibbert except that Edey is 7' 4" tall. Is the NBA in the cards for Edey? With all this greatness, defense remains the swing skill for the NBA. The league has gone away (ran away would be more accurate) from players in his mold. It’s sometimes hard to remember how recently and abruptly this has happened. Less than 8 years ago, 7’2 Pacers center Roy Hibbert (here’s a blast from the past for you) was an all-star and finished second in the defensive player of the year vote. Two years later, Hibbert became unplayable and was washed out of the NBA. And this was not (primarily) because of his offense, which was always limited, but because of how swiftly the league has altered, transforming players like Hibbert from defensive assets to defensive liabilities in the span of just two seasons (Cavs 7’1 center Timofey Mozgov can tell a similar story at about the same time). www.onpointbasketball.com/the-future-of-canadian-basketball-in-the-paint-part-3-zach-edey/
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 24, 2024 8:21:20 GMT -5
Sort of similar until one realizes that Smith was 350 pounds and DJ Burns is 275 pounds. Interestingly, Smith got his weight down to 290 with the Nagoya Diamond Dragons and is still playing as of 2023! It's like saying Zach Edey reminds me of Roy Hibbert except that Edey is 7' 4" tall. Is the NBA in the cards for Edey? With all this greatness, defense remains the swing skill for the NBA. The league has gone away (ran away would be more accurate) from players in his mold. It’s sometimes hard to remember how recently and abruptly this has happened. Less than 8 years ago, 7’2 Pacers center Roy Hibbert (here’s a blast from the past for you) was an all-star and finished second in the defensive player of the year vote. Two years later, Hibbert became unplayable and was washed out of the NBA. And this was not (primarily) because of his offense, which was always limited, but because of how swiftly the league has altered, transforming players like Hibbert from defensive assets to defensive liabilities in the span of just two seasons (Cavs 7’1 center Timofey Mozgov can tell a similar story at about the same time). www.onpointbasketball.com/the-future-of-canadian-basketball-in-the-paint-part-3-zach-edey/ 275 lbs is 78 percent of 350 lbs. So it would be someone who is 8 foot 9 inches compared to 7-2 Hibbert. That’s how much bigger Georgetown Josh Smith is compared to DJ Burns. Josh Smith is DJ Burns plus another small human. That’s how big he was.
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 24, 2024 8:22:55 GMT -5
Interestingly, Smith got his weight down to 290 with the Nagoya Diamond Dragons and is still playing as of 2023! It's like saying Zach Edey reminds me of Roy Hibbert except that Edey is 7' 4" tall. Is the NBA in the cards for Edey? With all this greatness, defense remains the swing skill for the NBA. The league has gone away (ran away would be more accurate) from players in his mold. It’s sometimes hard to remember how recently and abruptly this has happened. Less than 8 years ago, 7’2 Pacers center Roy Hibbert (here’s a blast from the past for you) was an all-star and finished second in the defensive player of the year vote. Two years later, Hibbert became unplayable and was washed out of the NBA. And this was not (primarily) because of his offense, which was always limited, but because of how swiftly the league has altered, transforming players like Hibbert from defensive assets to defensive liabilities in the span of just two seasons (Cavs 7’1 center Timofey Mozgov can tell a similar story at about the same time). www.onpointbasketball.com/the-future-of-canadian-basketball-in-the-paint-part-3-zach-edey/ 275 lbs is 78 percent of 350 lbs. So it would be someone who is 8 foot 9 inches compared to 7-2 Hibbert. That’s how much bigger Georgetown Josh Smith is compared to DJ Burns. Josh Smith is DJ Burns plus another small human. That’s how big he was. I'm talking about their style of play, not necessarily their respective sizes. I see a similarity in that not a mathematical comparison of relative sizes. I also see similar style of play between Hibbert and Edey and question whether Edey will translate into the NBA. I assume he'll get a look. Luke Garza bounced between NBA and G-League and I believe he is more skilled that either Hibbert or Edey. Similarly, Mike Sweetney was a better skilled player than either Burns or Smith, IMO.
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 24, 2024 8:49:30 GMT -5
275 lbs is 78 percent of 350 lbs. So it would be someone who is 8 foot 9 inches compared to 7-2 Hibbert. That’s how much bigger Georgetown Josh Smith is compared to DJ Burns. Josh Smith is DJ Burns plus another small human. That’s how big he was. I'm talking about their style of play, not necessarily their respective sizes. I see a similarity in that not a mathematical comparison of relative sizes. I also see similar style of play between Hibbert and Edey and question whether Edey will translate into the NBA. I assume he'll get a look. Luke Garza bounced between NBA and G-League and I believe he is more skilled that either Hibbert or Edey. Similarly, Mike Sweetney was a better skilled player than either Burns or Smith, IMO. I don’t see it at the next level for Eddy. He would really have to transform his body like Hibbert and lose a lot of fat/get extremely lean to have a shot given his skill set and lack of explosiveness. Better players, bigger players, more skilled and better athletes in the NBA. But on top of that the rules against zone defense is a killer for a player like edey.
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 24, 2024 9:10:21 GMT -5
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Post by FromTheBeginning on Mar 24, 2024 9:40:33 GMT -5
If Burns weighs 275 then I’m 7 ft (my license says 5’10”)
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Post by Lethal_Interjection on Mar 24, 2024 11:57:11 GMT -5
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Post by Lethal_Interjection on Mar 24, 2024 13:56:34 GMT -5
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Post by Lethal_Interjection on Mar 24, 2024 17:46:17 GMT -5
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