Seawrightspostgame wrote:sf2010 wrote:Seawrightspostgame wrote:Its like there is this back and forth about Four. For one game he is great. Then 3 games he is a liability and does nothing. We Thompson people pipe up and then Four dazzles. Boom Four people come back.
Start Thompson. Four sucks. He makes open shots sometimes. He makes contested shots less times. Thompson is good at drawing fouls. DH allows CT to do that and CT will do exactly that.
Plus continue to turn into that great defender.
2) Four often struggles when teams put a long, athletic defender on him. But you know what happens when that guy is defending Four? He's NOT defending someone else. CT has proven to be an excellent shooter at this stage in his career, but he does not command the attention of the defense the way that Four does.
3) Thompson is "good at drawing fouls?" He has attempted 18 FTs in 280 minutes (one FT per 15.5 minutes of court time). Four has attempted 65 in 509 minutes (one per 7.8 minutes). Even allowing for garbage time FTs from Four, he still draws fouls at a significantly higher rate. Not that I think this is even a big reason for why Four should continue to get heavy minutes, I think it is pretty negligible, just calling out a statement that was not factual.
Stats aren't indicative of Thomspon's ability to draw fouls, which I have seen with my eyes when he goes to the basket. He has shown that he is savvy and big enough to draw the contact and put up a shot. That is hard to do. Many people don't make it to the point that they have the defender in the position that the defender can only foul. Don't understand that? I don't care. Four does not have this ability.
Four also shoots end of the game free throws. Sure that inflates his stats. Thompson's role has been evolving all season so stats are deceiving for what his ability is or could be.
Four draws the best defender so he should just be hanging out there? Theres more to a game than just drawing a defender to stand next to Four at the 3 point line. If you don't see that Thompson rebounds and gets turnovers or that he makes these plays when the team has needed them then?
The game isn't played in a vacuum. Or on a stat sheet. Four obviously should play because he is good, but I think Thompson is a better option right now. Even if Thompson isn't the better basketball player today, he might be next week so throw him out there.
Foul trouble? Four had 4 fouls against Joes? That is foul trouble. Thompson draws tougher defensive assignment and is still getting better.
Kid is a freshman. They get better. Four is what he is at this point in his career. Not to say he shouldn't play significant minutes still.
Here is from one poster on the Bonnies Message Board:
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Post by elitetaylor33 on Jan 10, 2016 at 7:40pm
Jan 10, 2016 at 7:21pmohs73 said:
Four McGlynn sure gets around. Began at Vermont, transferred to Towson, now at URI. He's extremely streaky, scored 33 in a recent Rams win. But he will throw up his share of bricks when guarded tough. And Bona has the guards who can take him out.
Exactly! He'll chuck it up from anywhere, at any point, contested or uncontested! So he'll get hot in some stretches, but when he's off, its basically Garrett driving to the hoop, mostly out of control (recently he's been better), but lately Thompson and Akele have stepped up.. Im not really worried about Mcglynn as much as Martin down low creating havoc, and someone that we wouldnt expect, like the two freshman i mentioned, hitting some key shots. But like i said, their not a good road team, they get in big ruts, and we just have to capitalize on it, when they do so..
Agree with you SPG,
I remember not long ago saying Thompson was horrible on defense. Thankfully that perception has not been brought up anymore. DH said after a game that Thompson led the defensive effort among the guards.
It's different to watch games on TV or monitor stats by the internet. Being at the game allows you to watch the play off the ball and it reveals things TV cannot.
No doubt Four was incredible at the Brown game. He had a confidence about him that is fun to watch when a great shooter is in this kind of zone. It was like anything and everything he threw up was going to go in, did not matter if he was faling out of bounds, getting fouled while shooting or whatever - the ball was going in. Sold out Crowd of 2800, at least 50% URI Fans, very loud for URI making the most noise of any URI Game I have attended (includes all home games). UIR has 90% of the noise in that game. The stars were aligned and Four was the man. But you have to look at the entire schedule.
Agree that saying Four has spread the floor and the opponents best player guards him is not a good reason to play him over Thompson. Bembry guarded Four, granted, and took him completely out of the game, but DH had Thompson guard Bembry. The same Thompson who some posters earlier this year said was bad defensively. I don't see any better spacing with Four than I do with THompson on the court. Thompson is a threat to shoot the 3, threat to pass, threat to drive and score, threat to drive and dish off as we saw with 2 Martin dunks with passes from Thompson.
Tonight we go against Adams and Posey. I would start Garrett and Thompson. I don't expect it to happen. DH is not a changer of the starting line up. But once he does insert Thompson then expect it to stay that way. Four could have a great game tonight but I doubt it changes my opinion.
I's surprised so many prefer to stick with Four. I would love Four off the bench, no problem with that, but not as a starter for a team trying for a Top 3 spot in the conference.
