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Post by iambballanalyst on Aug 25, 2012 9:07:53 GMT -8
You don't have to be a starter or a scorer to be a contributor. None of our big men were very good last year yet without any one of them we would have been a lot worse. Not having Roscoe Smith next year is a loss for UNLV. How big of a loss remains to be seen. This is true. They lose depth. He would have played the 3/4 in their small line up. Marshall Jones Moser Smith Bennet That's tough to match up with for teams with conventional line ups. SDSU is one of the few schools in the country that can match up no problem. Reinhardt will slide to that 2 spot, Moser will play 4 like last year. UNLV is going to be damn hard to beat this season. They'll be a Top 10 team before the year is over...maybe even Top 5.
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Post by sdsuballer on Aug 25, 2012 9:19:12 GMT -8
You don't have to be a starter or a scorer to be a contributor. None of our big men were very good last year yet without any one of them we would have been a lot worse. Not having Roscoe Smith next year is a loss for UNLV. How big of a loss remains to be seen. This is true. They lose depth. He would have played the 3/4 in their small line up. Marshall Jones Moser Smith Bennet That's tough to match up with for teams with conventional line ups. SDSU is one of the few schools in the country that can match up no problem. Reinhardt will slide to that 2 spot, Moser will play 4 like last year. UNLV is going to be damn hard to beat this season. They'll be a Top 10 team before the year is over...maybe even Top 5. Who cares about this guy. This should almost be off topic. Until UNLV can guard a broom stick and rebound they aren't going to be top 10. UNLV will be good offensively but they give up way too many easy shoots to their opponents. You usually see one guy playing defense while all other four players pick their nose and take off running to the offense of side.
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Post by sdsuballer on Aug 25, 2012 9:21:18 GMT -8
You don't have to be a starter or a scorer to be a contributor. None of our big men were very good last year yet without any one of them we would have been a lot worse. Not having Roscoe Smith next year is a loss for UNLV. How big of a loss remains to be seen. This is true. They lose depth. He would have played the 3/4 in their small line up. Marshall Jones Moser Smith Bennet That's tough to match up with for teams with conventional line ups. SDSU is one of the few schools in the country that can match up no problem. Reinhardt will slide to that 2 spot, Moser will play 4 like last year. UNLV is going to be damn hard to beat this season. They'll be a Top 10 team before the year is over...maybe even Top 5. No one besides Marshall will be playing defense with that line up? The other four players will be jacking up 3's or releasing on fast breaks.
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Post by iambballanalyst on Aug 25, 2012 9:21:32 GMT -8
This is true. They lose depth. He would have played the 3/4 in their small line up. Marshall Jones Moser Smith Bennet That's tough to match up with for teams with conventional line ups. SDSU is one of the few schools in the country that can match up no problem. Reinhardt will slide to that 2 spot, Moser will play 4 like last year. UNLV is going to be damn hard to beat this season. They'll be a Top 10 team before the year is over...maybe even Top 5. Who cares about this guy. This should almost be off topic. Until UNLV can guard a broom stick and rebound they aren't going to be top 10. UNLV will be good offensively but they give up way too many easy shoots to their opponents. You usually see one guy playing defense while all other four players pick their nose and take off running to the offense of side. They'll be good enough offensively to take some teams with young talent by surprise. They play good defense in big games. They'll be in more big games this year so they'll play better defense. I recall it being pretty tough for us to score on them last year.
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Post by sdsuballer on Aug 25, 2012 9:28:29 GMT -8
Who cares about this guy. This should almost be off topic. Until UNLV can guard a broom stick and rebound they aren't going to be top 10. UNLV will be good offensively but they give up way too many easy shoots to their opponents. You usually see one guy playing defense while all other four players pick their nose and take off running to the offense of side. They'll be good enough offensively to take some teams with young talent by surprise. They play good defense in big games. They'll be in more big games this year so they'll play better defense. I recall it being pretty tough for us to score on them last year. They played good against us because coach Hudson knew our player very well. They did not play very good defense against New Mexico on two out of three times they played them. And against the rest of the conference they relied on their offense to win games which cost them several games. They should have won both the conference and conference tournament.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2012 9:49:02 GMT -8
I can't believe people on this board are overlooking UNLV. They are going to be a monster next year. I'm not saying we can't beat them but it's going to be VERY tough at home and away.
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Post by 1611Luginbill on Aug 25, 2012 10:03:12 GMT -8
I can't believe people on this board are overlooking UNLV. They are going to be a monster next year. I'm not saying we can't beat them but it's going to be VERY tough at home and away. I can. Didn't you know? Since Syracuse lost a game last year against a s#!++y team and UCLA was bad 2 years ago, that means that we are going to whip the pulp out of them this year? We're defiantly going to win all the other OOC games because they're team names I don't recognize from when Dick Enberg was still calling the Final 4. If we lose ANY conference games, it will be because of the refs, Hair Thompson, Schnall, and/or Fischer not being a good coach. We're also going to go 16-0 in the Big West every year. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be browsing for Final 4 tickets and then go to the Pep Boys to get one of those air filters that adds 10hp to my Honda. They really work! The guy who works there said you can feel the extra power and if he didn't have to spend all his paycheck on accutane, his ride would be siiiick.
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Post by iambballanalyst on Aug 25, 2012 10:03:48 GMT -8
I can't believe people on this board are overlooking UNLV. They are going to be a monster next year. I'm not saying we can't beat them but it's going to be VERY tough at home and away. I don't know why I was saying Bennett..what I meant was Parker. He's an upgrade over Massamba, but he's also a freshman. He may have a learning curve. Deshawn will show his improvement because I think he can hold his own against Parker.
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Post by standiego on Aug 25, 2012 10:18:13 GMT -8
does UNLV also get their transfer ,a very good center from Pitt- mid December. They also had the opportunity to "practice " during their out of the country tour.
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Post by 83aztec on Aug 25, 2012 10:51:32 GMT -8
Actually call me when katin does anything besides score Geesh The kid is a very good basketball player and will be tough to deal with. As far as smith is concerned being able to redshirt probabyt helps him and vegas.
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Post by danloc09 on Aug 25, 2012 11:02:01 GMT -8
Actually call me when katin does anything besides score Geesh The kid is a very good basketball player and will be tough to deal with. As far as smith is concerned being able to redshirt probabyt helps him and vegas. Yes. Not sure what that has to do with what I said though.
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Post by iambballanalyst on Aug 25, 2012 11:51:33 GMT -8
Actually call me when katin does anything besides score Geesh The kid is a very good basketball player and will be tough to deal with. As far as smith is concerned being able to redshirt probabyt helps him and vegas. He has a chance to be Rahon or better. That's pretty good. His handles are pretty nice, and we all known he can shoot the lights out. Great role player for UNLV for the next 4 years.
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Post by northcountymike on Aug 25, 2012 18:01:51 GMT -8
Geesh The kid is a very good basketball player and will be tough to deal with. As far as smith is concerned being able to redshirt probabyt helps him and vegas. He has a chance to be Rahon or better. That's pretty good. His handles are pretty nice, and we all known he can shoot the lights out. Great role player for UNLV for the next 4 years. I'll remember this the first time you start a thread about how bad Rahon is and how bad of a "role" player he is. I seem to remember quite a few threads like that last year...
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Post by iambballanalyst on Aug 25, 2012 18:37:17 GMT -8
He has a chance to be Rahon or better. That's pretty good. His handles are pretty nice, and we all known he can shoot the lights out. Great role player for UNLV for the next 4 years. I'll remember this the first time you start a thread about how bad Rahon is and how bad of a "role" player he is. I seem to remember quite a few threads like that last year... Rahon was horrible last year because of his hurt foot. My point last year was if the kid is obviously not even 60%, let him get healthy instead of allowing him to stink up the gym. New year, healthy foot, I expect a completely different player. Before anyone raves about his defense, I'm judging our shooter based on how many jump shots he makes. That's it. We didn't recruit Rahon for his lock down defensive ability, that's just a plus.
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Post by gator82 on Aug 25, 2012 18:51:28 GMT -8
I'll admit it would have been nice to have Smith's experience coming off the bench backing up Moser, but freshman Savon Goodman will be a good replacement for Smith
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Post by tonatiuh on Aug 25, 2012 18:51:36 GMT -8
Roscoe Smith isn't even that good. He isn't!! Those could be famous last words. Anyway, it doesn't look like we will ever see him against us.
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Post by jdgaucho on Aug 25, 2012 18:53:19 GMT -8
Roscoe Smith isn't even that good. Rebels were high on him, so that has to say something.
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Post by rebels18 on Aug 25, 2012 19:34:51 GMT -8
If you ain't Jamaal you're last. Don't make this a Jamaal thread please. I'm just not impressed with his game. UNLV will be just fine without him. Probably better because he won't take big chunks of minutes from guys who I think are better than him. I wouldn't call Smith not receiving his waiver a loss either, not yet anyway. UNLV covered their bases for depth at the 3/4 spots when they added Savon Goodman. Roscoe has experience and through that was emerging as a leader. Even at 6'6 Goodman is a manchild and in Canada already proved to be a more reliable post-presence than Q.Thomas or Lopez. IMO-He's a bigger, tougher Pierce Hornung. You called it on Jamaal being POY-material when he was unknown, and you're going to call it again once Bryce Jones emerges. You saw them tear it up in the SayNo classic, practices, etc. UNLV's weakness this year won't be defense, rebounding, or post-scoring. Not with Moser/Bennett/Birch down-low and Bryce Jones on the perimeter. Having a help-side defender like Birch alone will massively improve the defense. No more Bellfield/Stanback/Massamba getting lost on defense and allowing some guard penetrate to take it to the hoop for an easy lay-up. UNLV's weakness this year will be the PG-spot. I know Marshall is the only player any SDSU fans "like" on our team, but he's not the polished PG we need to adequately run this offense. Unless Marshall grows into the role in the upcoming months, Daquan Cook or Reinhardt will need to take it from him for this team to be at their maximum potential.
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Post by northcountymike on Aug 26, 2012 0:15:12 GMT -8
I'll remember this the first time you start a thread about how bad Rahon is and how bad of a "role" player he is. I seem to remember quite a few threads like that last year... Rahon was horrible last year because of his hurt foot. My point last year was if the kid is obviously not even 60%, let him get healthy instead of allowing him to stink up the gym. New year, healthy foot, I expect a completely different player. Before anyone raves about his defense, I'm judging our shooter based on how many jump shots he makes. That's it. We didn't recruit Rahon for his lock down defensive ability, that's just a plus. Seems to me you piled it on against Rahon last year when he was sucking because he started in place/ahead of Jamaal, and during the early part of the season, they were both fighting for playing time at pretty much the same position. So now you're saying "give the kid a chance, his foot is better this year." I'm not buying it. Now that Rahon's not such a big threat to Jamaal's playing time, you're able to breathe a sigh of relief and finally admit what all of us knew last year about Rahon's hampered game. Stop pretending to be someone you're not. You're not a fan of anyone but one. Playing nice now will change over to the standard BBA we all know once the season starts.
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Post by iambballanalyst on Aug 26, 2012 8:40:29 GMT -8
Rahon was horrible last year because of his hurt foot. My point last year was if the kid is obviously not even 60%, let him get healthy instead of allowing him to stink up the gym. New year, healthy foot, I expect a completely different player. Before anyone raves about his defense, I'm judging our shooter based on how many jump shots he makes. That's it. We didn't recruit Rahon for his lock down defensive ability, that's just a plus. Seems to me you piled it on against Rahon last year when he was sucking because he started in place/ahead of Jamaal, and during the early part of the season, they were both fighting for playing time at pretty much the same position. So now you're saying "give the kid a chance, his foot is better this year." I'm not buying it. Now that Rahon's not such a big threat to Jamaal's playing time, you're able to breathe a sigh of relief and finally admit what all of us knew last year about Rahon's hampered game. Stop pretending to be someone you're not. You're not a fan of anyone but one. Playing nice now will change over to the standard BBA we all know once the season starts. Tom it's simple, I expect an injured player playing out of his role to struggle, and I expect a healthy player in the proper role to play up to his standards. That's it. all that other stuff is a waste of speculation. it was obvious to me that An injured guy was taking time away from a guy with All American talent. It made no sense so I spoke up. this year I expect a healthy guy to shoot the lights out like he's capable.
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