I think we already established that +/- can be very deceiving. You can go 0-4 with 2 turnovers and 2 fouls, but if the rest of the team is doing great, your +/- can be high. Conversely, you can hit 3 straight shots with a couple of steals and some decent defense, but if the rest of the team is stinking it up, your +/- could be negative. Over the course of a full season with a decent amount of non-garbage-time minutes, it can be a somewhat useful stat. Nothing I put any stock into on a "game at a time" snapshot basis.
When you speak of facts then you can include last year. He shot 40% 3 last year so clearly he can do it. We know Ben sees him do it in practice too. It is just a head game with him right now. He should keep shooting as far as I am concerned but also work on his interior game. I think he is a great leader on the team and is a fantastic asset even if he doesn't play many minutes. He hasn't shown a lot of improvement from last year in on the court, in play making, but there is no doubt he can contribute when he is playing confident and not worrying about his performance. You only need to go back to the Michigan game last year when he played 40 minutes and we beat Michigan in Michigan. I for one hopes he plays his whole career here no matter how many minutes he plays.
We haven't done a great job, yet, of defining roles for players and building them in those roles. It feels like we are running the same sets with Garcia, Thompson, or Payne at the 5. That isn't setting them up for success (IMO).
It appeared BJ didn't develop a bench or develop players for 2023 by sticking to a heavily senior line up in 2022 for the sake of winning. ( which proved to back fire during the B1G season). TT's development suffered.
My takeaway is that we win by 40 if Ramberg plays the whole game.
Same for Carrington…but the Carrington backers would argue…he makes them in practice though. - neither should be on the roster
When are going to propose to him...and will you share the video?
Agree, and Ramberg would have around 40 offensive rebounds, putting Jordan Murphy to shame.
Easy target Yeah he’s the reason we are one of the worst teams in the country. The need to pile on the eighth or ninth man on this team is ridiculous.
Ben just pulled a roster together last year and everyone bailed (or graduated) after the season, except Battle. This year he put his freshmen on the floor and took 3 transfers. He's trying to develop on the fly and hopefully next year will see some improvement. Next year will be make or break for his tenure.
I will say Thompson does a few things better this year than last year, although his shooting so far this year has been dismal. He's being more physical and rebounding a bit better, he's turned it over fewer times per min than last year, and he made a jump hook this year, the only "big man" move I've ever seen him make.
CBJ should have told him that when he took over. He didnt. I hope the kid stays.
If everyone was going to be OK with this year's dumpster fire, there is absolutely no reason why Daniels' minutes were given to Thompson.
Not to mention that he is a local guy who really wants to be here. Completely agree that piling on the 8-9 player is absurd, and spitting into the ocean of a very bad situation.
From the posts I don't think everyone was going to be OK with this year's dumpster fire...and if BJ wasn't intent on developing TT and told TT he wasn't going to try and develop him then shame on TT for not transfering...if he didn't tell TT his plans for him shame on BJ.
Aside from Garcia none of them can. Carrington isn’t worse than the rest.
Some of this is true and some of this doesn't really make sense.
Why is Ben running Treyton and Ramberg off the team?
Wet, that’s nonsense. Carrington has played 14 games, it seems silly to explain to someone that it’s too early to KNOW his career arc. I not going to argue with you and you might continue to give him the Wet treatment…but it looks kind of weird.
I get this year has made GH toxic and folks are pissed off and surly. I just hope the players and their families aren't on here reading some of the comments. They're still college kids trying to do their best. There's a difference between being critical and being nasty.
That's just crazy enough to work. If we find five Rambergs, we win by 200.
