Green has the potential to lead a team to a championship. People forget the progress players make from one season to the next.
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Green has the potential to lead a team to a championship. People forget the progress players make from one season to the next.
memorable, to me, means I can remember it. Recall. Point out games and plays.
Maybe I'm just gifted. Hell, Oscar Combs is the same way and his memory bank goes back decades farther than mine.
Anthony Epps wasn't an elite guard either by most people's metrics, but he was a key piece on a national championship team in 1996 and almost won another in 1997. I am thrilled having Green back for another year! It will be nice not having to depend solely on an incoming frosh to start at PG, the most critical position on the floor. That is a rarity in the Cal era. In fact, Green and Ulis are the only two players I can think of that played significant minutes at PG as freshmen who returned.
Only took you two tries to reply. You are getting better at this message board thingy bud.....
My point is I’m not having conversations about players 20 years from now unless they were special. Bring up Darius Miller or Deandre Liggins(recent examples of the type of player I imagine you are referring to) 20 years from now, I’ll have the same reaction you apparently do about the guys you listed. Then we’ll quickly move on to something else. Remembering it and it being relevant or worth remembering are different.
Difference being while Green had a bigger role as a freshman, Ulis still was on another level. There were more rememberable moments than green who played a lot more time. Unfortunately for Green his rememberable moments were his play against Sexton in Sec tournament and his bad shot in the KState game.
A bit of history; when Oscar was the Sports Editor for the Hazard Herald In The early 1960s, I delivered those papers in good old Hazard, Kentucky
Each newspaper cost 10 cents.....
hell I have conversations with family about guys in the 80s that got 15 minutes/game. Back then they hung around for 4 years and you saw em play a lot. Easy to recall.
I guess you can't say a player isn't good without being flagged for inappropriate behavior! Ridiculous!!!!
I guess it’s impossible for Quade to have that fabled freshman to sophomore jump
He won’t improve at all, because he won’t
And of course being out for two weeks at the end of the season made no difference at all did it?
No, just write off the kid because we all know he won’t get any better
He won’t improve at all, because he won’t
And of course being out for two weeks at the end of the season made no difference at all did it?
No, just write off the kid because we all know he won’t get any better
My priorities would be Vanderbilt and Green. Vanderbilt has the highest ceiling of anybody on the team, but even if he doesn’t improve that much he’s still the best rebounder and defensive player. Green gives you a returning backcourt player. Worst case scenario he’s good depth. My preferred lineup would be Johnson with two other guards. Green ensures we have the depth to do that without having to rely on Baker or Herro.
Get off him bro, do you think you are the internet police lol. I don't agree with everything he is saying ,but its his opinion.
Prediction the same posters that are excited about green, will give him hard time next year, when they realise I was right the whole time. Not trying to give the kid hard time, he seems like great kid ,just not typical elite cal guard.
If he leaves it shows how scared he is of competition and we are better off without a frightened mangina crying over his minutes. If he stays, man up and lead the team. Either way, we will be fine.
Bro man up get a real bike lol, figure that's what you would ride lol
Very good point. AD has had to put on a lot of muscle to get where he is. The kid is an absolute beast. Can't wait to see him and Cousins get back together next year and absolutely tear stuff up.
Assuming Cuz comes back....free agent and the mavs might through a max contract at him. Hopefully he stays with the Pels.
AND......in the next post lament about Cal not recruiting 4 year players........
You're either the biggest troll or the most clueless poster ever on rafters.
Ulis averaged 5.6 per game his freshman year in roughly the same amount of minutes. You're posts are completely illogical. You can't be for real, this has got to be a troll.
There is a huge difference in money between the thirteenth pick and the 30th pick. Both are in the first round. They sign three year contracts so multiply the difference by three and that becomes a reason to wait a year and try to move up the ladder if the underlying talent is there.
I agree with your list, but take out Young. He helped us get to the championship game. Insert Skal.
Just wow, why don't you go look up Berry and Brunson's freshman stats and compare them to Green's last year. Green was way better than Berry and on par with Brunson. You're clueless.
Those players were both juniors when they won it all. People are so quick to give up on a freshman in our program these days if they aren't "elite". Here are Green, Brunson and Berry's stats their freshman years:
Green
25.6 mpg
9.3 ppg
2.7 apg
.451 fg%
.376 3pfg%
Brunson
24.0 mpg
9.6 ppg
2.5 apg
.452 fg%
.383 3pfg%
Berry
13.2 mpg
4.2 ppg
1.5 apg
.404 fg%
.354 3pfg%
It's scary how similar Green's stats are to Brunson's at the same time in their career.
How could I forget with that beautiful hair?
No, it’s my list. I remember like 3 or 4 plays Young made that year. Labissiere is another but I’ll actually have a deeper memory of him from all the times I spent cussing him through the tv.
Don't care, let's collect highschool juniors like Pokemon. That's how you win titles baby!
100% agree with this. Kids are gonna make dumb decisions. Just gotta hope they don't make them at crucial times.
Hell,using the word returning and any UK player in the same sentence is a reason to be happy
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Hell,using the word returning and any UK player in the same sentence is a reason to be happy
It's just headache's.....I don't need to see a doctor...
The difference is their potential. Brunson's size and frame is much different than Quade's. He developed into a really physical, imposing guard that offset his quickness with strength, angles, etc. Similar to how Andrew Harrison was effective.
Quade isn't 6'3, 195 like Brunson. His lack of speed and burst doesn't have something to compensate for it. Nor does his lack of height. You usually have to be either big or quick or explosive. He;s none of the three.
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