Amelia blog: Wait, what happened to ... Rodney Williams?

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BleedGopher said:
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/196023771.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Go Gophers!!
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The turning point, mentally, for Rodney appears to have been the "under the bus" loss at Northwestern. Since then he looks to have checked out of most games- reappearing for cameos in the Indiana game and a few others.

The Big Ten site tracks 5 game by game stat leaders for each team for each game- steals, points, rebounds, blocks and assists. In the first 15 games up to and including the Northwestern game he was a category leader or co-leader 26 times out of 75. For the next 15 games the number is 11 of 75 and that mostly on steals or blocks at 1 or 2. He disappeared.
 


One of four players who need a daily talk with a sports physiologist. Joining Coleman, Austin, and ( " beam me up Scotty) Oto. You have to feel bad for Trevor playing with 4 guys dealing with demons
Austin missed that one "3" last night by 3 feet!
 

bga1 said:
The turning point, mentally, for Rodney appears to have been the "under the bus" loss at Northwestern. Since then he looks to have checked out of most games- reappearing for cameos in the Indiana game and a few others.

The Big Ten site tracks 5 game by game stat leaders for each team for each game- steals, points, rebounds, blocks and assists. In the first 15 games up to and including the Northwestern game he was a category leader or co-leader 26 times out of 75. For the next 15 games the number is 11 of 75 and that mostly on steals or blocks at 1 or 2. He disappeared.
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He played pretty good @Indiana and home against IA and Nebraska. I imagine the injury didn't help him both physically or mentally.
 


bga1 said:
The turning point, mentally, for Rodney appears to have been the "under the bus" loss at Northwestern. Since then he looks to have checked out of most games- reappearing for cameos in the Indiana game and a few others.

The Big Ten site tracks 5 game by game stat leaders for each team for each game- steals, points, rebounds, blocks and assists. In the first 15 games up to and including the Northwestern game he was a category leader or co-leader 26 times out of 75. For the next 15 games the number is 11 of 75 and that mostly on steals or blocks at 1 or 2. He disappeared.
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I'm pretty sure the under the bus tweet was after the Michigan game not N'western, but a harbinger of things to come nonetheless.
 

He's had numerous games similar to last night during his time as a Gopher. How can anyone be surprised when it happens? He still doesn't understand the game and likely never will.
 

On our 2nd to the last possession (I think?), the one where Andre took the off balance 3 from the right corner, I wanted to punch RW right through the TV. His job was to screen Andre's guy as he ran around the top of the key to the right corner. RW was in great position, Andre made a nice cut, the corner was wide open, the pass came on-time........and so did his defender. Why? Because RW, instead of maintaining a HARD screen, pivoted as the defender came through TOWARD Andre, allowing the defender (who a guy like Eliason or Brian Cardinal would've put on his a$$) to pass through essentially unmolested. WTF???

Horrible play. I don't usually break down the film that much, but wanted to see where Andre came from. If this is a typical RW screen, he sucks balls at them. He was in great position and pussied out.
 

CP Gopher said:
He's had numerous games similar to last night during his time as a Gopher. How can anyone be surprised when it happens? He still doesn't understand the game and likely never will.
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I think his biggest problem is his lack of aggressiveness. He just doesn't play like a stud athlete should.

When he's playing the 4, I've never understood why they don't put him at the free throw line area against the zone. Get him the ball in there and let him elevate for a short jumper, or drive to the bucket.
 



GophersInIowa said:
I think his biggest problem is his lack of aggressiveness. He just doesn't play like a stud athlete should.

When he's playing the 4, I've never understood why they don't put him at the free throw line area against the zone. Get him the ball in there and let him elevate for a short jumper, or drive to the bucket.
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I think he lacks aggressiveness when he is confused. He often just stands around looking dumbfounded whenever it's a half-court game.
 

ruppertflywheel said:
One of four players who need a daily talk with a sports physiologist. Joining Coleman, Austin, and ( " beam me up Scotty) Oto. You have to feel bad for Trevor playing with 4 guys dealing with demons
Austin missed that one "3" last night by 3 feet!
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It is shocking how soft this team is. Division one athletes can need their hands held and have sunshine blown up their backsides all seasons.
 

Rodney is a pussy, he would be a pussy no matter who his coach is. You can't teach a pussy to be tough toughness is inside you, the only difference at a blueblood school there would be enough talent to put Rodney on the bench. Whose gonna replace him Oto?
 

The thing I can't figure out is how visible Rodney is at times, and totally invisible at other times.
 



The worst thing Tubby could do to Rodney is start him at small forward. This should be fairly evident by his increased production last year after he was forced to play in the post due to Mbakwe's injury. Doubt that starting lineup will be used again. Also, if Tubby thinks his team is not mentally tough (his words) changing the starting lineup and rotations this late in the year won't help. Go Gophers!
 

dtrain19 said:
The worst thing Tubby could do to Rodney is start him at small forward. This should be fairly evident by his increased production last year after he was forced to play in the post due to Mbakwe's injury. Doubt that starting lineup will be used again. Also, if Tubby thinks his team is not mentally tough (his words) changing the starting lineup and rotations this late in the year won't help. Go Gophers!
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Like we haven't been told this 1452 times previously?
 

GophersInIowa said:
I think his biggest problem is his lack of aggressiveness. He just doesn't play like a stud athlete should.

When he's playing the 4, I've never understood why they don't put him at the free throw line area against the zone. Get him the ball in there and let him elevate for a short jumper, or drive to the bucket.
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RW biggest problem is lack of solid fundamentals. General ball handling skills are sorely lacking. Flat shot most of the time. Inconsistent at best at the charity stripe. As Jake referred to above, lack of solid screens.
 


bleedsmaroonandgold said:
It is shocking how soft this team is. Division one athletes can need their hands held and have sunshine blown up their backsides all seasons.
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That's why Izzo has to lock his players out of their cushy practice facility when he sees them going soft.
 

bemidjigopher said:
Rodney is a pussy, he would be a pussy no matter who his coach is. You can't teach a pussy to be tough toughness is inside you, the only difference at a blueblood school there would be enough talent to put Rodney on the bench. Whose gonna replace him Oto?
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Stay classy
 

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