Osiris Eldridge going in the 2nd round of the draft?

[BUBrave28]

It's true SM is better driving to the hoop or with a set shot. But, Sam has gotten better creating a shot. Once some teams tried to cut his lanes off to the basket he started pulling the old JC stop-pivot-turnaround-jumper from the edges of the freethrow line. He's also gotten better coming off screens and hitting the 2pt jumper.

I think OE has a chance mainly because of his on-ball defense and quickness. When you combine that with his potential "upside" on the offensive end he starts to get interesting.

 

[amckillip]

I am just stratching my head now, if he did NOT improve much from his sophomore season to his senior season then why in the world did he get voted to 2 defensive all valley teams, 2 all valley conference teams, 2 first team all conference selections and was the voted overall best defender in the Valley in that same Sophomore to Senior seasons?

Please put aside the shooting in certain games or even overall and look at the body of work from baseline to baseline.

After everything I quoted for his career you still want to use shots, missed shots and % in the last minutes of a game as reasons to argue his career. The man put up extremely good numbers in his basketball career. Yes ISU did not always play big time competition but that is not got anything to do with OE. You play who you are dealt.

And my opinion, games are 40 minutes long and what happens at the 14 minute mark in the first is as important as what occurs with 2 minutes left. You take bad shots at the 14 minute mark can be just as hurtful as something deeper in the game. The ones in the last minutes are just more maginfied.

He got voted to those things based in hype. Every year was supposed to be the year he broke out. Anyone who watched last season could see SM should have been All-MVC over OE and each of the last two years OE hasn't even been the best player on his own team. Voting isn't everything, he was a solid player, but I agree with Tornado that his career, was equal, if not less than that of SM and AW.

 

[houstontxbrave]

He got voted to those things based in hype. Every year was supposed to be the year he broke out. Anyone who watched last season could see SM should have been All-MVC over OE and each of the last two years OE hasn't even been the best player on his own team. Voting isn't everything, he was a solid player, but I agree with Tornado that his career, was equal, if not less than that of SM and AW.

Lets get this straight. Your telling me the voting done at the end of a season is done on hype? So regardless of what was done on the court OE got his recognition at the end of a season only based on hype?

So some voter in Omaha is looking at OE and saying in March you know Im voting OE to the all defensive team because you know I see so much potential in him. I know I saw his entire valley season but that doesnt matter its what he could be that Im voting on.

Look I dont buy the whole he was overrated, hype stuff with this player. I go back to the orginal post by me, if he had a BU uniform on his back and got the post season recognition and put up the numbers he did in a BU uniform no one on here would be tearing his career down.

No one would be saying he shot to much or his numbers went down as a senior or that he only got his awards because he was hyped up. In fact I have a feeling the numbers would be spun in a direction to make him look incredible.

The man had an outstanding college career...period.

 

[Braves4Life]

Look I dont buy the whole he was overrated, hype stuff with this player...... The man had an outstanding college career...period.

Outstanding may be a bit of a stretch houston. I agree that O is one heck of a talent. In fact, probably more talented than anyone else in the whole MVC (and that includes BU). But, though I think he had a good (maybe even very good) career, he will go down in my book as a player that never achieved his full potential (both on an individual and team basis). With his talent (and it was very obvious at times that he was the best player in the Valley) he should have walked away with every postseason MVC award and could have even been as good as a 3rd Team All-American.