BTO’s Hall of Fame Tip-Off Postgame Report x2

[walkenvol]

When JJJ is healthy he’s been one of our best/most important players, unfortunately he hasn’t been able to stay healthy throughout his career.

Gotta wonder if he’s been dealing with the finger injury all season. He’s definitely a better shooter and player than he’s been thus far.

This JoAllen. JJJ had a cast on an arm a couple months back following wrist surgery. He wasn’t 100% to start this year and now tears ligaments in a finger - dude is snakebit.

 

[Volunteer08]

I think BHH is slowly coming around. If we can get him a little more aggressive, we could be a force in March

 

[Volfan1000]

Didn’t have the time to get one up after Nova so figured instead of doing 2 threads I would basically just do 1 report covering both games…

1. I’m not sure anyone expected those 2 results, 1-1 isn’t surprisingly in the least and was really the expectation, but to lose in the fashion we did I never saw coming and on the flip side I didn’t see a win like that coming against any of those teams this weekend…a very strange weekend that maybe has us actually asking more questions than we went into the week with, and thinking we’d have answers for.

2. I think Nova is a great team, I also think that our strength is our guards and that their guards at this stage are just better, we don’t have a dominate post game to make them pay there. I think that first game also showed how important Chandler is, that first play of the game in retrospect was massive…what should’ve been a block, a likely 3-0 Tennessee lead and a Nova starter with a foul immediately flips to a 0-0 game and foul on Chandler, it wasn’t much later he picked up his 2nd and was done. We weren’t flawless in the 2nd half with him by any means but definitely thought we looked much better against them with Chandler than without, no way we were keeping it close without him and Barnes probably should’ve rolled the dice and played him with 2 fouls.

3. On the flip side of that you have today, Tennessee beats a ranked team just about as badly as we got whipped yesterday…our guard play was absolutely dominant and we were missing arguably our best defensive piece and versatile offensive piece in JJJ. Credit to the staff and the team for bouncing back, would’ve been real easy to pack it up and head home 0-2, instead you leave with a loss to a Top 5 team and a win against a Top 20 team, all in all that’s probably a net positive big picture.

4. Some advanced analytic numbers…against Nova offensively we put up a 79.1 rating and defensively a 106.0 rating…today offensively was a 125.3 and defensively 101.4…our defense really wasn’t that bad against Nova considering how good they are offensively, we were just absolutely abysmal offensively…today’s offensive numbers looked like our first 2 games, so was Nova an outlier? They exposed something? What happens without Chandler? Not sure, but that needs to be addressed for sure cause it was fugly.

5. Santiago Vescovi is my player of the tournament for Tennessee, he’s the only guy to show up both games, so pretty easy choice…averaged 20ppg and shot right at about 40% from 3, also averaged 7.5rpg in the 2 games, he’s played really good defense and his improved quickness was very easy to see I thought. He can handle PG if needed but definitely not ideal, however he’s a really good 2 guard imo and quite possibly will lead the team in scoring this year and get some accolades.

6. This one may get long and be quite a run on, but just a few different thoughts getting compiled together…I just don’t see a way you play Plavsic going forward unless it’s a team with a bruising big man that we are unable to push the tempo against, option 1 against such a player should still be Fulky and trying to push the pace and spread the floor. Going off that, Zeigler showed in this game that he deserves plenty more opportunities, he’s tough as nails, can score inside, be a pest defensively, and looks like he’s finding his 3pt shot. James, even though not a huge sample size, is 1/15 from 3…that’s not gonna stretch the floor from the 3 position, he continues to look better suited for the 4, but that would require Barnes committing to small ball and pretty much removing Uros. To me the strength of this team is the guards, the quickness, and the 3pt shooting. We played a lot of small ball today and had 50+ paint points, only took 20 3pt attempts, had 28 assists on 38 made fg, I say that to say that just cause we are small doesn’t mean the ball can’t go inside. I like…

Chandler/Zeigler
Vescovi/Bailey
Powell
James
Fulk/ORN/BHH

ORN getting some minutes at the 4, but for the most part James would be your 4…I feel those are our best players and best plays to our strengths.

7. We sit at 3-1, have a good neutral site win and a neutral site loss to what looks like a Top 5 team, no harm done this weekend at all, but do need to use it as a learning experience and to improve on. Take a look at our next 6 games per BartTorvik, next 2 our home for what should be 20+ point favorites, then @ Colorado and N Texas Tech, both of which we are slightly favored in, 1-1 should be the minimum but 2-0 definitely possible, then 2 more H cupcakes that should probably be 20+ point favorites in. So 5-1 at worst should be the expectation over the next 6, get us to 8-2 or 9-1 and we are in a pretty good spot through our first 10 games.


GBO!

Villanova is a physical half court team and North Carolina is an up and down tempo squad that Tennessee plays better against.

Huntley-Hatfield looked very good today and he will get some of Plavsic's minutes as the season rolls along because he can run the floor and can be a solid rim protector.

I like James coming off the bench and Powell starting at the 3 to spread the floor and have some snipers to shoot the trifecta.

 

[Unconditional Surrender]

Didn’t have the time to get one up after Nova so figured instead of doing 2 threads I would basically just do 1 report covering both games…

1. I’m not sure anyone expected those 2 results, 1-1 isn’t surprisingly in the least and was really the expectation, but to lose in the fashion we did I never saw coming and on the flip side I didn’t see a win like that coming against any of those teams this weekend…a very strange weekend that maybe has us actually asking more questions than we went into the week with, and thinking we’d have answers for.

2. I think Nova is a great team, I also think that our strength is our guards and that their guards at this stage are just better, we don’t have a dominate post game to make them pay there. I think that first game also showed how important Chandler is, that first play of the game in retrospect was massive…what should’ve been a block, a likely 3-0 Tennessee lead and a Nova starter with a foul immediately flips to a 0-0 game and foul on Chandler, it wasn’t much later he picked up his 2nd and was done. We weren’t flawless in the 2nd half with him by any means but definitely thought we looked much better against them with Chandler than without, no way we were keeping it close without him and Barnes probably should’ve rolled the dice and played him with 2 fouls.

3. On the flip side of that you have today, Tennessee beats a ranked team just about as badly as we got whipped yesterday…our guard play was absolutely dominant and we were missing arguably our best defensive piece and versatile offensive piece in JJJ. Credit to the staff and the team for bouncing back, would’ve been real easy to pack it up and head home 0-2, instead you leave with a loss to a Top 5 team and a win against a Top 20 team, all in all that’s probably a net positive big picture.

4. Some advanced analytic numbers…against Nova offensively we put up a 79.1 rating and defensively a 106.0 rating…today offensively was a 125.3 and defensively 101.4…our defense really wasn’t that bad against Nova considering how good they are offensively, we were just absolutely abysmal offensively…today’s offensive numbers looked like our first 2 games, so was Nova an outlier? They exposed something? What happens without Chandler? Not sure, but that needs to be addressed for sure cause it was fugly.

5. Santiago Vescovi is my player of the tournament for Tennessee, he’s the only guy to show up both games, so pretty easy choice…averaged 20ppg and shot right at about 40% from 3, also averaged 7.5rpg in the 2 games, he’s played really good defense and his improved quickness was very easy to see I thought. He can handle PG if needed but definitely not ideal, however he’s a really good 2 guard imo and quite possibly will lead the team in scoring this year and get some accolades.

6. This one may get long and be quite a run on, but just a few different thoughts getting compiled together…I just don’t see a way you play Plavsic going forward unless it’s a team with a bruising big man that we are unable to push the tempo against, option 1 against such a player should still be Fulky and trying to push the pace and spread the floor. Going off that, Zeigler showed in this game that he deserves plenty more opportunities, he’s tough as nails, can score inside, be a pest defensively, and looks like he’s finding his 3pt shot. James, even though not a huge sample size, is 1/15 from 3…that’s not gonna stretch the floor from the 3 position, he continues to look better suited for the 4, but that would require Barnes committing to small ball and pretty much removing Uros. To me the strength of this team is the guards, the quickness, and the 3pt shooting. We played a lot of small ball today and had 50+ paint points, only took 20 3pt attempts, had 28 assists on 38 made fg, I say that to say that just cause we are small doesn’t mean the ball can’t go inside. I like…

Chandler/Zeigler
Vescovi/Bailey
Powell
James
Fulk/ORN/BHH

ORN getting some minutes at the 4, but for the most part James would be your 4…I feel those are our best players and best plays to our strengths.

7. We sit at 3-1, have a good neutral site win and a neutral site loss to what looks like a Top 5 team, no harm done this weekend at all, but do need to use it as a learning experience and to improve on. Take a look at our next 6 games per BartTorvik, next 2 our home for what should be 20+ point favorites, then @ Colorado and N Texas Tech, both of which we are slightly favored in, 1-1 should be the minimum but 2-0 definitely possible, then 2 more H cupcakes that should probably be 20+ point favorites in. So 5-1 at worst should be the expectation over the next 6, get us to 8-2 or 9-1 and we are in a pretty good spot through our first 10 games.


GBO!

Ok well thought out I guess but how am I supposed to pronounce Vescovi?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

It is smart to distribute the minutes amongst 11 or 12 players at this point of the season. There is no telling which ones will be injured and we’ve had a rash of those over the last several years. Those that were calling for Uros to never play another minute are fools. We might need extended minutes from every one of Uros, BHH, Fulk, Aidoo, and ORN at some point this year. Plus anybody can get into foul trouble as unpredictable as officiating has become. Probably the same clowns that were screaming the same narrative about Fulkerson a couple of years ago.

I’d like to see Mashack and Aidoo get minutes over the next few weeks. That translates to 13 deep for now (it’s safe to say that Tamba won’t be getting any minutes as #14 this year). The competition for playing time makes everybody better.

TN might have the luxury of sitting every player with any illness or slight injury this year. KC being a probable exception.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Ok well thought out I guess but how am I supposed to pronounce Vescovi?

The Guy from Uruguay. But is it “err uh gway” or “yur uh gway” ?

 

[ColinS]

It is smart to distribute the minutes amongst 11 or 12 players at this point of the season. There is no telling which ones will be injured and we’ve had a rash of those over the last several years. Those that were calling for Uros to never play another minute are fools. We might need extended minutes from every one of Uros, BHH, Fulk, Aidoo, and ORN at some point this year. Plus anybody can get into foul trouble as unpredictable as officiating has become. Probably the same clowns that were screaming the same narrative about Fulkerson a couple of years ago.

I’d like to see Mashack and Aidoo get minutes over the next few weeks. That translates to 13 deep for now (it’s safe to say that Tamba won’t be getting any minutes as #14 this year). The competition for playing time makes everybody better.

TN might have the luxury of sitting every player with any illness or slight injury this year. KC being a probable exception.

You just can't play that many players and play with any team chemistry. Uros is bad. We have so many better options than him. I'm not a fool and everybody else with this opinion is not a fool. Though he doesn't kill you on the offensive end, he just can't play defense at all.

 

[kckempf]

Ok well thought out I guess but how am I supposed to pronounce Vescovi?

Since it’s Véscovi, emphasis on the first syllable. Wonder if they could include the accent on the jersey.

 

[Volle]

Now that we've got two bona-fide PG's, I'd play small ball with ZZ, KC, SV, Powell/JJJ, and HH/Fulk/ON. The rest of the guys to to the practice squad.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

You just can't play that many players and play with any team chemistry. Uros is bad. We have so many better options than him. I'm not a fool and everybody else with this opinion is not a fool. Though he doesn't kill you on the offensive end, he just can't play defense at all.

You can’t play 13 throughout the season. You certainly can in December while you are trying to establish your rotation. Plus you only need to take 1 or 2 out entirely. You can have one 9 or 10 man rotation for inside oriented teams and a DIFFERENT 9 or 10 man rotation for perimeter oriented teams. 8 core plus 2 sets of specialists suitable for specific opponents is 8 plus 2 plus 2… 12 players. Uros and Aidoo can be your deep bench to match up with certain inside-out opponents while Bailey and Mashack (or Quentin) can be your deep bench for playing with a smaller lineup.

The core 8:
KC
ZZ
SV
JP
JJJ
BHH
ORN
Fulk

Big 2:
Uros
Aidoo

Small 2:
Bailey
Mashack
or Quentin

Out (redshirt):
Tamba

QD, VJ, and JM could be in a season-long battle to be in the first 6 of perimeter options. Uros and Aidoo could be in a battle for the 5th option at 4/5.

Uros can certainly deal with intermittent minutes. He’s done that his entire career. He is a coach’s dream of a role player that is willing to be used as necessary and not be a problem when he sits.

Bailey should have lost his leverage when he quit during the Nova game. Having already transferred his options are not as wide open. He can be a 2022-23 Super (COVID) Senior if he has the patience and right attitude.

Mashack, Quentin, and Aidoo should understand that they aren’t far enough along to get big minutes yet. If Mashack develops into a solid 9th man this year, he could end up being the team MVP by his junior or senior year. In his brief appearances he looks to me like he will be better than JJJ and Hubbs. I hope that he knew coming in that his opportunities in 2021-22 might be limited with the potential to grow significantly year by year.

Everybody has an opportunity. Everybody will have a good idea what will be expected from them to grow their minutes in future seasons.

Teams that can dictate the pace and style can go with a shorter rotation. Villanova showed that adjustments will be necessary.

 

[ITSGR82BATNVOL]

Bailey had an abysmal tournament and shouldn't be more than the 9th man off the bench getting minimal minutes, IMO. I'm more than fine splitting James and ORN at the 4 in favor of any additional minutes for VB.

You are absolutely correct. Anyone who says he is one of our best players, doesn't know crap about basketball. He should not see the floor except for injuries, foul trouble, or garbage time against inferior competition. Same goes for Plavsic. When either of them is in the game we're playing 4 against 5, and God forbid, 3 against 5, if both are on the court together. Absolutely obvious and ridiculous.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

Bailey had an abysmal tournament and shouldn't be more than the 9th man off the bench getting minimal minutes, IMO. I'm more than fine splitting James and ORN at the 4 in favor of any additional minutes for VB.

Hard to argue based off these 2 games

 

[bleedingTNorange]

I was glad to see Fulky back to his old self today, Z looked great too! Nova was a burn the tape game; I know they are good, but we didn't seem to play very well. You mention KC not being in there after picking up two fouls, well my God, he was only 1 of 9 from the field when he was in there, and some of those were easy layups. Basically he was not ready for the big stage, but played much better today. We need to run more plays to get Powell his shot, that son of a gun can shoot.

Was 0/6 from 3 in the tourney…the positive thoughts was he found other ways to score a bit.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

You can’t play 13 throughout the season. You certainly can in December while you are trying to establish your rotation. Plus you only need to take 1 or 2 out entirely. You can have one 9 or 10 man rotation for inside oriented teams and a DIFFERENT 9 or 10 man rotation for perimeter oriented teams. 8 core plus 2 sets of specialists suitable for specific opponents is 8 plus 2 plus 2… 12 players. Uros and Aidoo can be your deep bench to match up with certain inside-out opponents while Bailey and Mashack (or Quentin) can be your deep bench for playing with a smaller lineup.

The core 8:
KC
ZZ
SV
JP
JJJ
BHH
ORN
Fulk

Big 2:
Uros
Aidoo

Small 2:
Bailey
Mashack
or Quentin

Out (redshirt):
Tamba

QD, VJ, and JM could be in a season-long battle to be in the first 6 of perimeter options. Uros and Aidoo could be in a battle for the 5th option at 4/5.

Uros can certainly deal with intermittent minutes. He’s done that his entire career. He is a coach’s dream of a role player that is willing to be used as necessary and not be a problem when he sits.

Bailey should have lost his leverage when he quit during the Nova game. Having already transferred his options are not as wide open. He can be a 2022-23 Super (COVID) Senior if he has the patience and right attitude.

Mashack, Quentin, and Aidoo should understand that they aren’t far enough along to get big minutes yet. If Mashack develops into a solid 9th man this year, he could end up being the team MVP by his junior or senior year. In his brief appearances he looks to me like he will be better than JJJ and Hubbs. I hope that he knew coming in that his opportunities in 2021-22 might be limited with the potential to grow significantly year by year.

Everybody has an opportunity. Everybody will have a good idea what will be expected from them to grow their minutes in future seasons.

Teams that can dictate the pace and style can go with a shorter rotation. Villanova showed that adjustments will be necessary.

With how young our bench is, I think playing 12 players for an entire season would be a huge mistake if 2 of those are freshmen and aren’t getting big minutes. I’d much rather see Maschack and Aidoo redshirt instead of blow one season of their eligibility because we played them a handful of minutes here or there.

 

[VolPack22]

BHH should be starting by the time the SEC schedule starts.

 

[b_gann]

Didn’t have the time to get one up after Nova so figured instead of doing 2 threads I would basically just do 1 report covering both games…

1. I’m not sure anyone expected those 2 results, 1-1 isn’t surprisingly in the least and was really the expectation, but to lose in the fashion we did I never saw coming and on the flip side I didn’t see a win like that coming against any of those teams this weekend…a very strange weekend that maybe has us actually asking more questions than we went into the week with, and thinking we’d have answers for.

2. I think Nova is a great team, I also think that our strength is our guards and that their guards at this stage are just better, we don’t have a dominate post game to make them pay there. I think that first game also showed how important Chandler is, that first play of the game in retrospect was massive…what should’ve been a block, a likely 3-0 Tennessee lead and a Nova starter with a foul immediately flips to a 0-0 game and foul on Chandler, it wasn’t much later he picked up his 2nd and was done. We weren’t flawless in the 2nd half with him by any means but definitely thought we looked much better against them with Chandler than without, no way we were keeping it close without him and Barnes probably should’ve rolled the dice and played him with 2 fouls.

3. On the flip side of that you have today, Tennessee beats a ranked team just about as badly as we got whipped yesterday…our guard play was absolutely dominant and we were missing arguably our best defensive piece and versatile offensive piece in JJJ. Credit to the staff and the team for bouncing back, would’ve been real easy to pack it up and head home 0-2, instead you leave with a loss to a Top 5 team and a win against a Top 20 team, all in all that’s probably a net positive big picture.

4. Some advanced analytic numbers…against Nova offensively we put up a 79.1 rating and defensively a 106.0 rating…today offensively was a 125.3 and defensively 101.4…our defense really wasn’t that bad against Nova considering how good they are offensively, we were just absolutely abysmal offensively…today’s offensive numbers looked like our first 2 games, so was Nova an outlier? They exposed something? What happens without Chandler? Not sure, but that needs to be addressed for sure cause it was fugly.

5. Santiago Vescovi is my player of the tournament for Tennessee, he’s the only guy to show up both games, so pretty easy choice…averaged 20ppg and shot right at about 40% from 3, also averaged 7.5rpg in the 2 games, he’s played really good defense and his improved quickness was very easy to see I thought. He can handle PG if needed but definitely not ideal, however he’s a really good 2 guard imo and quite possibly will lead the team in scoring this year and get some accolades.

6. This one may get long and be quite a run on, but just a few different thoughts getting compiled together…I just don’t see a way you play Plavsic going forward unless it’s a team with a bruising big man that we are unable to push the tempo against, option 1 against such a player should still be Fulky and trying to push the pace and spread the floor. Going off that, Zeigler showed in this game that he deserves plenty more opportunities, he’s tough as nails, can score inside, be a pest defensively, and looks like he’s finding his 3pt shot. James, even though not a huge sample size, is 1/15 from 3…that’s not gonna stretch the floor from the 3 position, he continues to look better suited for the 4, but that would require Barnes committing to small ball and pretty much removing Uros. To me the strength of this team is the guards, the quickness, and the 3pt shooting. We played a lot of small ball today and had 50+ paint points, only took 20 3pt attempts, had 28 assists on 38 made fg, I say that to say that just cause we are small doesn’t mean the ball can’t go inside. I like…

Chandler/Zeigler
Vescovi/Bailey
Powell
James
Fulk/ORN/BHH

ORN getting some minutes at the 4, but for the most part James would be your 4…I feel those are our best players and best plays to our strengths.

7. We sit at 3-1, have a good neutral site win and a neutral site loss to what looks like a Top 5 team, no harm done this weekend at all, but do need to use it as a learning experience and to improve on. Take a look at our next 6 games per BartTorvik, next 2 our home for what should be 20+ point favorites, then @ Colorado and N Texas Tech, both of which we are slightly favored in, 1-1 should be the minimum but 2-0 definitely possible, then 2 more H cupcakes that should probably be 20+ point favorites in. So 5-1 at worst should be the expectation over the next 6, get us to 8-2 or 9-1 and we are in a pretty good spot through our first 10 games.


GBO!

Love your points in #6. Uros seems like a great guy and teammate, but in 2021, he provides nothing of substance to the team other than fouls. He is big but doesn't guard or rebound well. I know Barnes loves to preach rebounding, but he kills our offense and doesn't really help our defense. I'd love to roll the dice with BHH in those minutes Fulky is out. Maybe it gets him more touches near the rim where he seems to have a lot of skill also. I hope ORN can find his groove again. I really don't think it's a talent thing. I'm thinking he has a confidence or nerves issue. You can see the skill, but he just struggles to put it together. Also, the two bigs together kills the spacing. College spacing is already cramped. Having a non-shooting C standing at the top of the lane does us no favors. We need to really embrace small ball. We have the guards to win a lot of games this year.

 

[TBtheGBwiththeTD]

As far as minutes i think our best bet, unless opponent demands otherwise, looks like below:

Chandler 30mpg / Ziegler 10
Vescovi 25 / Ziegler 15
Powell 25 / JJJ 10 / Vescovi 5
ON 20 / JJJ 15 / BHH 5
Fulkerson 30 / BHH 10

I understand Bailey is going to play, but i don't think he actually brings anything the above guys don't. I really like Olivier so far this year, but as BHH gets more comfortable that battle for minutes will be very interesting. If JJJ doesn't start playing better they may even steal his minutes.

Vescovi and Chandler are our 2 best guards. They play well together too so that helps. Fulkerson as the 1 in with 4 out is our best offensive lineup. The way he understands spacing and can pass the ball fits perfectly. He also defends the ball screen very well on the other end.

After those 3 i think you play who's hot and mix and match. Chandler Vescovi and Fulkerson need to play 30 minutes every night they are physically able.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

I agree with everything except for Villanova being a great team. We laid an egg yesterday. I think that game was more about us, than it was them. We showed some resiliency today, however.

We had a couple of heartbreakers vs the Heels 4 and 5 years ago. This win is pretty sweet.

I didn’t mean they are like a once in a lifetime team, but I expect them to be Top 10 all year, be 1-2 seed in the NCAAT, and popular F4 pick, which qualifies as a great team imo.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

As far as minutes i think our best bet, unless opponent demands otherwise, looks like below:

Chandler 30mpg / Ziegler 10
Vescovi 25 / Ziegler 15
Powell 25 / JJJ 10 / Vescovi 5
ON 20 / JJJ 15 / BHH 5
Fulkerson 30 / BHH 10

I understand Bailey is going to play, but i don't think he actually brings anything the above guys don't. I really like Olivier so far this year, but as BHH gets more comfortable that battle for minutes will be very interesting. If JJJ doesn't start playing better they may even steal his minutes.

Vescovi and Chandler are our 2 best guards. They play well together too so that helps. Fulkerson as the 1 in with 4 out is our best offensive lineup. The way he understands spacing and can pass the ball fits perfectly. He also defends the ball screen very well on the other end.

After those 3 i think you play who's hot and mix and match. Chandler Vescovi and Fulkerson need to play 30 minutes every night they are physically able.

Zeigler was playing the point it seemed most of the time he and Chandler were out there, I would also trim a few minutes off Fulk…

Chandler 20/Zeigler 20
Vescovi 30/Chandler 10
Powell 25/James 10/Bailey 5
ON 20/James 20
Fulk 25/BHH 15

 

[Sudden Impact]

Although I like to argue with you in jest at times, YOU are THE MAN.

Another great Summary As Usual.

 

[TBtheGBwiththeTD]

Zeigler was playing the point it seemed most of the time he and Chandler were out there, I would also trim a few minutes off Fulk…

Chandler 20/Zeigler 20
Vescovi 30/Chandler 10
Powell 25/James 10/Bailey 5
ON 20/James 20
Fulk 25/BHH 15

I'm just so done with Bailey. Ziegler, even acknowledging he won't be as good as he was vs UNC every game, just provides so much more to me. Fulkerson is only going to get better. I think he fits really nicely when played around a bunch of guards too. Overall we are pretty lock step though

 

[Volunteer08]

I'm just so done with Bailey. Ziegler, even acknowledging he won't be as good as he was vs UNC every game, just provides so much more to me. Fulkerson is only going to get better. I think he fits really nicely when played around a bunch of guards too. Overall we are pretty lock step though

Bailey is a really nice piece off the bench. Teams would kill to have that.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Bailey is a really nice piece off the bench. Teams would kill to have that.

Outside of the one 29-point performance he had in SEC play last year, I’m not so sure this is true. He really hasn’t done much lately (both in 4 games this season and down the stretch last season). Yeah, he can go off in one game, but the vast majority of the time I have watched him play he is laying bricks and doesn’t know when to stop shooting.

 

[Volunteer08]

Outside of the one 29-point performance he had in SEC play last year, I’m not so sure this is true. He really hasn’t done much lately (both in 4 games this season and down the stretch last season). Yeah, he can go off in one game, but the vast majority of the time I have watched him play he is laying bricks and doesn’t know when to stop shooting.

Sure, I wouldn't start him. I think his value is that he's a solid ball handler, he hits free throws, he's good for a 3 here and there so it still spaces the floor. Just a solid bench guy. I'm not saying he's our 6th man, but most teams don't have a guy like that. I would even say he starts on a couple SEC teams. Is that crazy?

 

[Volunteer08]

Sure, I wouldn't start him. I think his value is that he's a solid ball handler, he hits free throws, he's good for a 3 here and there so it still spaces the floor. Just a solid bench guy. I'm not saying he's our 6th man, but most teams don't have a guy like that. I would even say he starts on a couple SEC teams. Is that crazy?

and when I say a guy like that, I mean who is probably the 8th or 9th guy off the bench.