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Salley

Am I the only one who thinks JC cannot dribble? 6 to's last game and close to that this half...shoot the 3 or give it up!:wink:
 
Does anyone else think it would be a good time to get RA into the game and let him body up on the bigs?
 
He could not do any worse then Salley ; I still wonder why he continues to start and play so many minutes when his stats are bad each and every game.
 
Salley Coninues to Give us Nothing...PLEASE MORE DC

Salley Coninues to Give us Nothing...PLEASE MORE DC

Big Mike said:
Am I the only one who thinks JC cannot dribble? 6 to's last game and close to that this half...shoot the 3 or give it up!:wink:
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big mike;

I don't believe the style of offense we play is the best suited for JC's strenghts!
Usually point guards posses the best ball handling skills, not shooting guards. I believe
he is being ask to do some things that he is not comfortable with for good
reasons and great team players do what is ask of em -- jc is a good D-1 player.
 
Well seeing how most of our TO's in 2 of the last 3 games have come from JC and Ruffin, (11 TO's a piece), Les needs to work with them closely in practice. I think some of Crouch's dribble problems come from the unfamiliarity with the newcomers. Not knowing where they are, the timing of when to look for them, etc. Dribble less and look more. Ruff, well he just needs to slow down. We have 7 newcomers and he's a 5th year senior. Have to get the timing down and them used to being thrown a rocket of a pass when not expecting it. Never had these problems last season, things will work each other out.

Jason
 
As for Salley starting, I really have no true answer. Yeah he's decent on defense but Collins has outperformed him by far in every game. I don't think it would of changed our 2 losses but we would have performed better. I guess Les is just wanting Salley to get as much playing time being this is his Senior year and wants the best for him after college. That's the only thing I can think of.

Jason
 
jasonpeoria911 said:
As for Salley starting, I really have no true answer. Yeah he's decent on defense but Collins has outperformed him by far in every game. I don't think it would of changed our 2 losses but we would have performed better. I guess Les is just wanting Salley to get as much playing time being this is his Senior year and wants the best for him after college. That's the only thing I can think of.

Jason
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The best for him? I hope he is getting his education because he's not playing in Europe.
 
jasonpeoria911 said:
As for Salley starting, I really have no true answer. Yeah he's decent on defense but Collins has outperformed him by far in every game. I don't think it would of changed our 2 losses but we would have performed better. I guess Les is just wanting Salley to get as much playing time being this is his Senior year and wants the best for him after college. That's the only thing I can think of.

Jason
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No chacne Coach Les is playing him because of what may or may not be best for his future. He must be doing some things in practice and on the court the we (the fans) are not seeing. Im sure that Les would do what is best for the team not for one player.
 
I said last season that Salley hurt us more than he helped us. He takes shots clearly out of his range. He should shoot nothng but layups. As for JC, IMO the tighter defense on him this season is affecting his whole game and he is getting rattled. Hope he plays through it.
 
If Jim continues to start Salley, we will continually find ourselves in big holes like we were last night...he's not good enough and over his career at BU, he has played exactly two games where I remember him having games that warranted a start....and one of them was against our next opponent....Loyola
 
I remember when we got him, they were comparing him to Sommerville. Oh how I wish. Then again Sommerville never had to play center, but if he was on this team they'd probably have him do it. Start Collins, or at least give the most minutes to Collins.
 
I really think JL sticks with Salley because he trusts him more now then the other options. He also does decent low post defense, but it has to be an issue regarding JL simply trusting Salley right now more then the others.

JC, I am convinced he has lost a step because of his knee injury last season. He is short on his shots, never long, which tells me he is not elevating. And his lack of quickness is completely evident when he tries to guard anyone one on one. Foster went by him last night like he was a post, and when JC tried to step back and take away his drive Foster simply pulled up and shot over JC.

JC will play all season and he can not be hidden to much on Defense but he can not guard quicker more athletic 2's anymore. Warren/Wilson are going to have to step up and play the better players on the other team or we are going to have to play more zone defense.

I think JC also handles the ball relatively well since he does at times get into the lane but he has to when he is open and not defended make his jump shots much more consistantly. He is so far 18-48 from 3, 37.5% compared to close to 50% last season. I think he will end up being fine but I still am a bit worried about the number of misses.
 
chitown fanatic said:
why does salley start?
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I agree that Salley's stats are not as good as Collins at this point in the season. I am sure he is starting for a number of the following reasons:

1) He's a senior and brings maturity, leadership, and a familiarity with the system. I swear there are times that the team looks lost and clueless when some of the newbies are in and Salley is out.

2) He is probably out-working everyone in practice.

3) His defense and help defense is probably superior to the newbies, particularly Collins. Last night's game against Vandy was the first time I'd seen Collins start to "get it" with help defense as the safety valve.

That said, Salley must begin to step up and show more leadership and consistency during the game. As Collins and the newbies learn the system and gain experience Salley will be replaced in the starting line up. Ultimately, I believe that Ruff, JC, Wilson, Warren, and Collins will be the starters. Once Collins becomes more proficient as "the eraser" in help defense, our guys will be able to overplay on defense without having to worry about their being beat resulting in an easy score.

I predict we'll begin to see this team gel in the next few games prior to the start of the Valley regular season. And, quite honestly, I believe Les is thinking the same thing and is trying to get this team raedy for the war that is the Valley regular season.
 
Someone on here made a reference that there have been Pro scouts at a few of our games, most would think to watch Ruff but I am betting a lot of them are there to see Collins. 7 foot athletic and continues to improve. His minutes will increase as the season moves forward.
 
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