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Which will prove greater?

Austin Hollins+Andre Hollins (obviously not at 100%) or Carlos Morris+Andre Hollins (100%)?

I hope we can stay injury free and find out.
 



balds said:
Is that your cryptic way of predicting that McNeil sees a lot of time at the 3?
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I think he's trying to say that our starting center will be Carlos Morris standing on Andre Hollins' shoulders.
 

balds said:
Which will prove greater?

Austin Hollins+Andre Hollins (obviously not at 100%) or Carlos Morris+Andre Hollins (100%)?

I hope we can stay injury free and find out.
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Interesting question...I'd say we'll be better off with a healthy Andre and Carlos. Andre was almost a liability out there last season when he was banged up, and while I loved Austin's defense, he disappeared offensively in way too many games for my liking. I hope Squirrel is up to the task and has Gopher fans out of their seats going nuts.
 


I was frustrated with Austin quite often as well but wow was he lights out during their NIT run
 

Richard said:
Interesting question...I'd say we'll be better off with a healthy Andre and Carlos. Andre was almost a liability out there last season when he was banged up, and while I loved Austin's defense, he disappeared offensively in way too many games for my liking. I hope Squirrel is up to the task and has Gopher fans out of their seats going nuts.
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I'll take "Things I Hope You Typed on Purpose" for 800 please
 

Are we all taking for granted that Squirrel will be able to fill Austin's shoes? I want to believe, but we're really just assuming quite a lot when we suspect he'll make up any majority of the difference between the two.
 

WhoFellDownTheGopherHole? said:
Are we all taking for granted that Squirrel will be able to fill Austin's shoes? I want to believe, but we're really just assuming quite a lot when we suspect he'll make up any majority of the difference between the two.
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Austin was a really good player over the course of his career and tremendous during last year's NIT run, but his shooting inconsistency always bothered me. I realize players are going to have off nights, but there were multiple games last year that we could have won if Austin had decent shooting numbers. Here were his 3-point shooting numbers from all of our losses last season:

Syracuse 1-5
Arkansas 3-6
Michigan 0-6
Michigan St 0-3
Iowa 1-7
Nebraska 1-4
Northwestern 1-3
Purdue 1-4
Wisconsin 0-1
Illinois 0-4
Ohio St 0-1
Michigan 2-6
Wisconsin 1-4

Total: 11-54 (20%)
 



Those are telling numbers, R,WH. And if my (and your) math is right, he shot 40% from 3 in the wins.
 

Austin is a huge loss. Enormous. But I like Carlos.

Dre can improve upon his 2013-14 season. Carlos ain't gonna produce results (offensive and defensive efficiency) like Austin.

Austin's splits are interesting, but there are others who are more important to consider... e.g., DeAndre. The difference in off efficiency in Wins vs. Losses for both Austin and Mathieu were ~30. Enormous.

eFG%: Austin 57.2% in wins, 44.7% in losses. Mathieu: 60.6%, 43.5%. BIG.

The other thing is that in losses Mathieu pressed a little more.. usage rates up. That's a concern this year... needs to pick his scoring battles wisely.
 

Gopher Warrior said:
Austin is a huge loss. Enormous. But I like Carlos.

Dre can improve upon his 2013-14 season. Carlos ain't gonna produce results (offensive and defensive efficiency) like Austin.

Austin's splits are interesting, but there are others who are more important to consider... e.g., DeAndre. The difference in off efficiency in Wins vs. Losses for both Austin and Mathieu were ~30. Enormous.

eFG%: Austin 57.2% in wins, 44.7% in losses. Mathieu: 60.6%, 43.5%. BIG.

The other thing is that in losses Mathieu pressed a little more.. usage rates up. That's a concern this year... needs to pick his scoring battles wisely.
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I agree. I don't expect a large spike in Mathieu's numbers, but if Dre regains his sophomore form, he has another weapon. I would also like to see them attempt to get EE or Not So Huge Mo involved offensively early in the game.
 

I'd like to see EE in the high post the way he was against Syracuse. I thought he would've seen a little more of that after it was so effective that game.
 



I've been following this thread for days, and I only now understand what the title means. The "+" was throwing me off the trail, big time.
 

Gopher Warrior said:
Austin is a huge loss. Enormous. But I like Carlos.

Dre can improve upon his 2013-14 season. Carlos ain't gonna produce results (offensive and defensive efficiency) like Austin.

Austin's splits are interesting, but there are others who are more important to consider... e.g., DeAndre. The difference in off efficiency in Wins vs. Losses for both Austin and Mathieu were ~30. Enormous.

eFG%: Austin 57.2% in wins, 44.7% in losses. Mathieu: 60.6%, 43.5%. BIG.

The other thing is that in losses Mathieu pressed a little more.. usage rates up. That's a concern this year... needs to pick his scoring battles wisely.
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We also need to consider that Mathieu would press the issue after the offense was struggling to produce. He often forced things when something/someone needed to change. As stated, a healthy Andre will likely make it tough for defenses to shut us down and Mathieu won't need to press the issue as much.
 

underground629 said:
I'd like to see EE in the high post the way he was against Syracuse. I thought he would've seen a little more of that after it was so effective that game.
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We didn't see another team that looked or played like Syracuse all season. In a predominately man2man B1G you don't ever see people catch at the free throw line extended literally uncovered. Richard had a FANTASTIC game plan for Syracuse, one he probably planned for months, and it worked to a T. I think he threw that same concept out there, to much less effectiveness, at various points during the regular season when we saw 2-3 but the fact is you don't see an aggressive 2-3 like that but once a season if you're not in Syracuse's conference.
 

howieramone said:
I agree. I don't expect a large spike in Mathieu's numbers, but if Dre regains his sophomore form, he has another weapon. I would also like to see them attempt to get EE or Not So Huge Mo involved offensively early in the game.
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You're absolutely right. I think more than any single thing, the guards need to concentrate on feeding the post more often. The Gophers were 13-4 in games where either Elliot or Mo scored in double figures and were 12-9 in games where neither did. In the conference, they were 5-4 in those games and 3-6 in the others. In the four conference games they lost with a post player scoring in double figures, one was a 3 point loss to Michigan, a 1 point loss to Northwestern, a triple overtime loss at Purdue, and the 13 point loss to Illinois.
 

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