Wooga Poplar commits to Nova
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No room in the inn.
Brea, Oweh, Chandler, and Robinson on the wing.
Plus, Poplar would have given us 7 to 8 points/game here with less shots and minutes than he received at Miami. I think he would have been a bench piece at Kentucky.
Brea, Oweh, Chandler, and Robinson on the wing.
Plus, Poplar would have given us 7 to 8 points/game here with less shots and minutes than he received at Miami. I think he would have been a bench piece at Kentucky.
First come, first serve.
Yeah he’s not a bad player. But he was always third behind Robinson and Lanier for me.
The big issue for me regarding Poplar is what it took him to get his 13 points per game. He needed over 31 minutes/game to get that.
During his sophomore year, Poplar only played 24 minutes/game. With those minutes, which I think would be comparable to what he'd have earned at Kentucky, he scored just 8 points per game.
He wouldn't have played 31 minutes/game at UK. Probably closer to 22 to 24 minutes. That would have been good for 7 to 9 points/game.
I'd rather have Robinson, who scored more points than Poplar and did it while playing about 4 less minutes per game.
Unless he was the one who committed, and then he’d be the one you wanted all along.
I guess he has to get in line with other Poplars....
Only ways he would have been a statistically significant upgrade from Robinson were rebounding and name. Everything else is more or less a wash. Except, Robinson's advantage on defense is in the neighborhood of Poplar's advantage on the glass, plus Robinson comes in with two years of Pope's system under his belt which will be huge for team development.
I would have been happy landing either player. Robinson probably edges out Poplar in terms of our needs because of his familiarity with Pope's system, and at any rate I'm happy we've got him.
EDIT: Except it’s been a week since I was really thinking about this and I forgot the most important difference——Robinson was BYU’s leading scorer……Poplar was Miami’s FOURTH leading scorer. It’s possible Poplar would able to be just as efficient with defenses keying on him (like they were keying on Robinson), but frankly that seems very unlikely. Chances are that, all things considered, Robinson is a much, much better player at least offensively.
I would have been happy landing either player. Robinson probably edges out Poplar in terms of our needs because of his familiarity with Pope's system, and at any rate I'm happy we've got him.
EDIT: Except it’s been a week since I was really thinking about this and I forgot the most important difference——Robinson was BYU’s leading scorer……Poplar was Miami’s FOURTH leading scorer. It’s possible Poplar would able to be just as efficient with defenses keying on him (like they were keying on Robinson), but frankly that seems very unlikely. Chances are that, all things considered, Robinson is a much, much better player at least offensively.
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Yeah, Nova has never been the same without Wright. Dude was a damn good coach.
Poplar had said going back to Philly would be cool with him being from around there. So good for him and good for Villanova.
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