In the last article posted about his bucket recruiting, he didn’t mention Gophers as having any contact with him at all. It’s been alluded to that he might not be a great fit for the culture.
I was at that game as wasn’t impressed. For being the #53 best recruit (or whatever he is in the class of 24) he should’ve dominated. And I know the box score says he had 30 points, but he was not dominating that game. He was not blowing by people. When I think top 50 prospect who is a pg, I think great speed, he didn’t really have that. He also took a many plays off and played poor defense.
Gophers are having several football visitors on Monday. Freitag is one of them.
He was playing out of position most of the game due to Jefferson’s lack of talent and size. He had what I would call a quiet 30. I didn’t think he was doing too much on offense all game, then looked at the scoreboard late in the 2nd half to see he was by far the scoring leader for both teams. They didn’t utilize him on offense very much to break the defense down. He did on occasion but played within their system I thought. Defensively he was passive at times but some of that was because Jefferson didn’t pressure the ball much and switched quite often.
Agreed, he doesn't seem to have much interest in hoops at the U, but more interest in Fleck and the football program. They are all in on Asuma, and you're right, there is not a culture fit between Freitag and Johnson.In the last article posted about his bucket recruiting, he didn’t mention Gophers as having any contact with him at all. It’s been alluded to that he might not be a great fit for the culture.
My understanding is we’re all in on Asuma from Cherry
Reading between the lines. Seems like we favor Asuma and the concern programs like Baylor had were they viewed him as an undersized two and not a PG. Although I think Tony Bennett likes him as a PG/CG type
Sounds a little like Adam Boone,a great high school basketball player and scorer but really not a PG and not a great enough shooter to play SG in D1 college. Gophers were 3-13 his first year as Gophers PG and 5-11 his last year but there was an injury season in between those two where the Gophers were 10-6 and he didn't play. His stats were always decent but first and foremost I think the PG has to make everyone else better and that is critical.
what does "concern programs" mean in your comment? Concern as in he will most likely go there or something else?
I think it's pretty clear from what the poster said that the "concern" is that those programs see Freitag as a 'tweener' or a combo guard - not a true PG.
i could be way off on this....but didnt the U and others back off for some particular reason? or am i thinking of another recruit?
That is the unsubstantiated rumor going around here. However, The "U" staff (both football and basketball) are still recruiting him hard. I'm trying to make it to their game tomorrow night and will try to pry more info out of the BBall coaches.
It's not really unsubstantiated the "U" basketball staff isn't recruiting him very hard. He's said it himself.
The average NFL career is 3 years (and pretty much no minor leagues) while guys like Mav Ahanmisi, Dusty Rychart, and Rick Rickert have had long careers playing overseas.
Got ya but how many players have been on a gophers roster with elite quickness? Not sure I would say even Tre and Tyus has elite quickness, though they were very good!
Dre mathiu- can’t think of many in last 15 years
How tall was Maxx Williams?
