Official apology thread for those who said DC is "a bust", or "wasted scholie"

[basketball nut]

Lefty, DC is by nature a quiet low key guy. Anytime I see him out and about, he always has the same emotionless look on his face and i've heard from others that he is your normal joe quiet person when having a conversation with him. He's just not your guy to get fired up on the court. I know it's a bad analogy skill wise but Tim Duncan comes to mind. He always has that same face on and rarely gets fired up on a good play or whatever.

Jason

This may go down as one of the worst anlogies I have ever seen on here. Duncan has a fire in him that few guys have and he shows it all the time on the floor. Nothing wrong w/ being quiet but no emotion whatsoever makes one wonder where the fire in the player is at.
JC is also quiet but you see the fire come out when he takes the floor. You do not see that w/ DC

 

[basketball nut]

Most of the DC bashers will stay really quiet, but we know who they are

Just reading this post and I have been one that has been very critical of DC this year and am not afraid to admit it. I was very happy to see him play like he did last night but he has a long way to go to be a force in the MVC. He was still getting beat defensively although he did better the more he played.
Have I given up on him, not at all. As I have said on this board before you never know from one year to the next how a player is going to improve and I would use my favorite player at BU over the last 8-10 years and that is JC and look how hard he worked in the off season and the kind of junior and senior seasons he had. Many on here wanted him to transfer after his soph. year also but today I would say 100% of us are glad that he stayed.
Who is going to be the next JC-one never knows

 

[beanocookschins]

If you want my honest opinion I would rather DC leave and Bradley recruit a freshman big man in his place. Just being honest. I'm happy for him that he contributed last night.

I'm not convinced he has "arrived" as of yet. He is unbelievably bad on the defensive end for some reason. I don't expect nor would hope Jim Les would remove him from the team. I was secretly hoping his lack of PT would free up a scholarship for someone that will help in the future.

Maybe Cole-Scott will be that guy now

Good for David though.

 

[rsmit84]

Dont get me wrong, I am happy that DC got some playing time and contributed, but lets not pretend it was something it wasnt. He consistantly failed to help on defense allowing wide open layups/dunks, didnt block out well, and still went up very weak with a couple of shots he shouldnt even have been taking. I wasnt surprised to log on today and see this thread but lets call last night what it was...a learning experience. That being said, I am proud that DC is on track now and look forward to seeing him more next year. Lets just not over state (like we all tend to do) exactly what we saw last night.

 

[it's boogie time]

Just hearing Andrew Warren on the post game show saying that Collins had been busting his butt in practice lately made me feel that playing in the tournament was a good idea.

The tough part about not seeing guys in practice makes you spectualte about certain players. With Collins, you know the god given talent is there and he has some offensive skills. You wonder about the other intangables and hearing that he is working hard gives me some hope for him going into the offseason.

There are certainly minutes to be had in the post next year and the remainder of this year.

 

[Out of Balance]

I am going to sound like Simon Cowell here... DC certainly made a decent contribution to this game and has shown some improvement, but this was against a Cincinnati team that had a 13-18 record coming into this game. Cincinnati was what it was... A flawed team. I hope DC continues to improve, but he has a lot of work to do on his defense and footwork.

Very good points! DC had two good looking shots and stepped up and made two free throws. The one off. rebound came right to him. He got out rebounded the rest of the time at both ends and look as though he was lost for the most part. The defense rebounds led to 8 points for them. One would think at 7' and 240 no-one would push him around. Some players play with heart and motivation. This are things that cannot be tought!!!!!!!!!!!
I too hope he continues to improve on all of his game. Maybe then he will force JL to go big and we will stop getting killed on the boards (Last night Cin.37 to BU 21)

 

[lefty]

Lefty, DC is by nature a quiet low key guy. Anytime I see him out and about, he always has the same emotionless look on his face and i've heard from others that he is your normal joe quiet person when having a conversation with him. He's just not your guy to get fired up on the court. I know it's a bad analogy skill wise but Tim Duncan comes to mind. He always has that same face on and rarely gets fired up on a good play or whatever.

Jason

I don't doubt that but you caan still be "into" the game and it seems like he just doesn't seem to get it sometimes. I've talked to a guy at BU who has watched practices and they say it's the same way in practice.
Duncan plays with a very competetive fire and while doesn't talk certainly plays with intensity.

 

[Dallas Brave]

WHY WE NEED DC (more than DC needs us)

DC doesn't play D exceedingly well, he does not anticipate rebounds and is caught flat-footed often, keeps his arms down too much, doesn't elevate and slam home shots when he could ... If he did all that, he would not be at Bradley.

But he is a 7 foot, 240 lb big guy who has a nice shot and can run the floor. Also, IMO, the overall team plays better when he is on the court. I'm positive he can pick up the fundamentals necessary to improve his D and rebounding. He needs to be developed! He has the basics and the coaches need to get him to the next level. Maybe JL's hard love is the right approach ... I'll trust JL to decide that.

In this issue of SI, Ken Pomeroy analyzes the scoring contribution for the tallest 40% of a team's minutes played of all national champs since 1987 ... twenty-one teams. 17 teams received 40%, or more, of their scoring from these players. 20 teams received at least 35+% from these players. The lone outlier is the '97 Arizona team that received 31.2% scoring from these players.

During these same period and same teams, the shortest average height of these players (the tallest 40% of a team's minutes played) was 6'8.43" - UNLV in 1990. One team (NC in '93) was over 6'10" ... 12 teams averaged between 6'9' and 6' 10" and 7 teams btween 6'843' and 6"9"

During MVC play, what was Bradley's average height this year for the 40% of the minutes going to it's tallest players? MS at 6'7" ... TW at 6'5" ... and JC/AW at 6'5" ... so our average height was somewhere between 6'5" and 6'6"

We need DC to be an important part of next year's team! To be an NCAA team that makes a statement in the tournament, we need height! DC is project number 1 in the off-season for JL and his coaches.

 

[georgethedog]

My whole deal with DC was if we aren't going to play him, why have him? I've been waiting for playing time to see what he can do. I've always said, "you can't teach 7 foot" so let's play him or why have him?