I am actually now a little concerned about our depth in the front court.steveystuds06 wrote: ↑3 years agoI totally agree. Our frontcourt is very dangerous. Walker should only get better. The twins are high major bigs and will cause teams headaches. They also seem completely dedicated to improving weaker areas of their games. I bet Makhel comes in shooting free throws better next season. If we can somehow fix our shooting and opens things up for our bigs, they should dominate most teams in the A10.KingstonLane wrote: ↑3 years agoYes my post was a bit optimistic, that being said I truly believe we have a worthy pitch of the best front court in the A10, regardless of all the names mentionedJersey77 wrote: ↑3 years ago
KL, I like our roster including the potential of our bigs, but to say we have the best front court in the league and nobody in the A10 can stop them is a huge reach. You can't dismiss the rest of the A10.
Richmond - Cayo, Burton, and Golden all averaged over 12 pts/game
VCU- Watkins, Williams, Ward, Levi, and PC transfer Nichols, lots of returning depth and talent.
Dayton - Camara (maybe the biggest impact transfer in the A10), Nwokeji, Amzil, Holmes, combination of youth, talent , and size.
Bonnies - Osun is the most dominating post presence in the conference, plus they added talented Pitt transfer Coulibaly, and several others.
This doesn't even include SLU with Oregon transfer Okoro, plus Bell and Linssen.
1) are we so quick to forget who lead the A10 in FG%? Some guy named Antwan Walker I heard, not too shabby. To take that one step further, Makhel checked in at #8 on that same list. Who finished #9? Tre Mitchell
2) oh and while we’re at looking at some stats, that guy Makhel Mitchell manage to finish 4th in blocks in the conference too
3) really the biggest differentiator for me here is depth. I’m not going to sit here and try to argue any of these guys are better than Osun. But we have 3 legit bigs that would start on any team in this conference. And one of them we were robbed of seeing their impact last year - debatably the better of the brothers too
Walker when he plays aggressive can make a difference, on occasion he does disappear.
Also there were times when we have seen Makhel having trouble finishing around the rim.
Overall though, both are very adequate starters in the paint.
Now about Makhi, who did lose his starting position to his brother prior to his injury after just 2 games.
Remember he is returning from knee surgery and only played a total of 19 games in 2 years and his stats didn't exactly jump out at you.
Let's not make him out to be all world just yet.
After that we have 2 completely untested freshman.
Yes the potential is there, but you need to pump the brakes a little.
Our frontcourt if they stay healthy should hold their own,
I think our team's success will rely on our guard play.
Shep, Ish, Ish2, all need to be significant contributors and we should expect to see a major improvement from Carey.