Either way, he's doing the same thing he's done every year, it's the same pattern.
I just want AP to dominate his position, he has the ability to do just that but he's wasting his chances.
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I just want AP to dominate his position, he has the ability to do just that but he's wasting his chances.
I agree with you. love AP like I love all our guys - but I think he IS the most frustrating. He has a perfect NBA body, some great talent when he uses it. To have games that he has had where he is clearly dominant and gets all "beasty" - only to turn around and disappear the next game drives me up the wall.
Have often thought that he simply thinks too much - gets inside his own head.
Good thing he has that degree - this won't work in the NBA - assuming he gets there.
His ball handling and lack of a perimeter shot keeps him from being an elite player, nothing else imo. If you'd told me before the season that he'd be averaging 10 and 8, I'd be happy.
He looked all world against Alabama because it was Alabama. They might have the weakest frontcourt in the sec.
He looked all world against Alabama because it was Alabama. They might have the weakest frontcourt in the sec.
Your theory doesn't make sense. If he wasn't fully healed he wouldn't show up at all but it is a fact that there are times he dominates and jumps higher than everyone else on the court. If he wasn't fully healed he wouldn't have the ability to do that.
I would be tempted to buy your theory if AP was a consistent beast his first three years at UK but you and I both know he has 1 great game than 3 or 4 sleepwalking games in a row, sometimes more.
You're probably going to say he gets easily fatigued due to the injury but I don't buy that either. He played hard the entire game Saturday night but in all the games he played poorly he did so from stem to stern.
It's mental, he either comes out focused or he doesn't.
My hope is that he now, after 3.5 years, fully knows that he needs to be fully focused from the beginning of the game until the end of the game. No more sleepwalking.
Where whatever you stated comes from I do not know. I guess you interpreted my statement instead of reading it. Before I had my knee injury I could run, jump, twist, and turn. After I had my knee injury I could run, jump, twist, and turn. I just didn't push my knee as I felt something inside that told me not to. There was a strain that I felt that told me in no uncertain terms I was pushing myself far enough. It took a LONG time before I could push myself back to where I used to be and it was way over a year, closer to two (maybe more). I may jump high once or twice (I could NEVER jump high but for me it was high.) but doing it a third or fourth time I could not. (Oh I could have but something told me not to.) Fatigue has nothing to do with it. You can feel your body muscle/ tendons/ whatever pull to where you know; it's enough. Anyway. I haven't explained myself like that in a long time. Suffice it to say I said what I meant. Feel free to interpret away... Be Good
Sometimes I wonder if people ever watch Cals teams. We went to the pick and Roll with Alex in the first half giving him one on one opportunities against a team that had not prepared for it. It was something Cal I'm sure has put in during camp Cal. Does anybody remember 2011? josh's production was ok and he was in better shape and playing better the first half of the season then boom the pick n roll pick n pop offense when SEC play started. It propelled Josh into a stint in the league. This team is just developing is all
I get what you're saying, I don't think you understood what I posted.
I just don't think it's his knee, when his head is in the game he is the most athletic guy on the court, when he's in La La Land he puts up stinkers like he did in our 3 losses. This isn't 1980 (not saying your procedure was done in 1980), today an Athlete's surgically repaired knee after an ACL tear is stronger than it was before the tear and the healing process is quicker.
Thanks for clerifying. I hope it comes out your way. I really do. I may be a worry wart but I still remember...Oh, it was about 1990...
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