Renaldo Wooldridge

#3
#3
If cam is a no show against the cocks, he needs to be benched. Might be a good opportunity for renaldo to show if he's improved his game. On the other hand, if he was showing it in practice he would get some PT. You would think anyway.
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#5
#5
I really don't see how he could hurt the team any more than the others, maybe even help? I would like to see what he can do just one time.

GBO
 
#6
#6
volatil said:
Something must be up with the Swiperboy video thing.
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He is a very nice kid and I like some of his music but he is a little lost on the basketball court. His outside shooting is very suspect as is his ball handling and distribution but he really doesn't know how to position himself or play inside. I thing maybe he out grew his body or didn't quite know how to adjust once he continued to grow, etc. He might make a decent 4 if coached up, but apparently Harris and Maymon must be ahead of him there. At the 3 just not smooth and polished enough.

My vote is we clone Hopson and let him play both the 2 and the 3.

None of them pass the ball very well.
 
#8
#8
I attended the game at Vandy with my brother and the first thing he noticed was Renaldo. He asked who he was because he looked incredible warming up. He can jump, shoot, and dribble, but unfortunately warm-ups is where it stops. Hopefully, his senior year he will step it up a little because he will definitely get som playing time.
 
#10
#10
Not sure he is a phenomenal basketball player but he deserves to play if cam continues to goose egg. Renaldo has represented this university and promoted this basketball program more than any other player I can remember. Definitely my favorite vol ahead of lofton and weezy. Kid is a lot of fun. Hope he gets a CHANCE at least.
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#11
#11
There are some players that Pearl just takes a disliking to. I call these the doghouse guys. One mistake might get them benched. His favorites get to play through bad games, regardless of talent level.

Woolridge finally got a chance last year in NC A&T game. He played 17 minutes there, then--after only 8 against Memphis--27, 34, and 23 vs Charlotte, Kansas, Auburn. In those games with sufficient time (i.e. not the Memphis game), he played 101 minutes, shot 14 of 26 overall and 8 of 14 on threes, was 4 of 6 at the line and had 30 rebounds. This is apparently how he plays when knows what's expected of him and doesn't expect to be yanked out for every mistake. After he played poorly the next game, I noticed that Bruce started to mouth at him every time he took him out. Then Bruce started to bad-mouth him to the press. His play got worse and worse. The epitome of the doghouse effect was the Missisippi State game last year. (I think I'm remembering the details correctly.) Steven made two of the dumbest plays I've seen in a while, but after the game Coach Pearl raved about his 2 rebound 14 minute performance. Woolridge got in for 2 minutes. He scored, played good solid defense, checked out nicely on a Missisippi State miss which one of our guys rebounded. Then he made a dumb play: he jumped to take a shot, was well defended, and rather than toss it to the other team for a fast break (like Steven had done earlier) he came down with the ball. Coach Pearl leaped up screaming and yanked him immediately from the game. He played 5 minutes in the final 3 games.
 
#12
#12
Wooldridge is not better than anybody we are putting out there. Though he had 3 straight games of decent maybe good but not great play, he didn't do anything else that entire year. Let me refresh your memory. He was still getting 19+ min of play for a 6 game SEC stretch and he didnt score more than 5 points in those games! Wooldridge is a bust unless he has improved drastically from last year, he should still ride the pine. I think he is more serious about rapping than he is about basketball, and I cant even say that his rapping is better than his BB skills.
 
#13
#13
the kansas game is the best game of his college career. if he hit shots like that every game he played in... then yeah he should be playing a lot of minutes.

BUT... he generally jacks up really dumb shots as soon as he touches the ball... usually from beyond 3 and then some... and hits about 20% or less of them. when the ball is thrown to him... there about 60% chance his touch will be equivalent to a turnover.
 
#14
#14
I would definitely take Swiper over Cam right now. Cam looks disinterested especially when he doesn't have the ball... kinda like a big man in a SG's body
 
#16
#16
10NCVol88 said:
Wooldridge is not better than anybody we are putting out there. Though he had 3 straight games of decent maybe good but not great play, he didn't do anything else that entire year. Let me refresh your memory. He was still getting 19+ min of play for a 6 game SEC stretch and he didnt score more than 5 points in those games! Wooldridge is a bust unless he has improved drastically from last year, he should still ride the pine. I think he is more serious about rapping than he is about basketball, and I cant even say that his rapping is better than his BB skills.
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Yep. Right about the time Pearl started yelling at him for every mistake and berating him to the press. Very few players can perform under that kind of nonsense. And I'll add that during all that, his effort was still strong, as evinced by the fact that he still tripled Steven's rebounding totals.
 
#17
#17
10NCVol88 said:
Wooldridge is not better than anybody we are putting out there. Though he had 3 straight games of decent maybe good but not great play, he didn't do anything else that entire year. Let me refresh your memory. He was still getting 19+ min of play for a 6 game SEC stretch and he didnt score more than 5 points in those games! Wooldridge is a bust unless he has improved drastically from last year, he should still ride the pine. I think he is more serious about rapping than he is about basketball, and I cant even say that his rapping is better than his BB skills.
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Who is this clown? Look man, I just produced Renaldo's last couple songs (one of which you guys are really going to like).... I have worked with some really, really bad rappers. And Woolridge is not one of them. The guy has serious talent on the mic.
 
#18
#18
BasketvolsFan said:
With the contributions Tatum is making, don't see anyway for Woolridge to get any playing time.
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Tatum has been stinking it up and bricking 3's left and right. Might as well give Woolridge a shot and see if he's any worse in a game. Haven't seen him really play at all this year.
 
#21
#21
papatomany said:
Yep. Right about the time Pearl started yelling at him for every mistake and berating him to the press. Very few players can perform under that kind of nonsense. And I'll add that during all that, his effort was still strong, as evinced by the fact that he still tripled Steven's rebounding totals.
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Players take differently to yelling and "berating the press." See Scotty who says the coach knows exactly what he is doing vs Goins who says well it starts from the top. If Wooldridge cant handle criticism he is in the wrong league. When your coach says he wishes you would spend more time on your BB skills than your rap career, then you are doing something really wrong.

As far as the rebounds, i would hope at 6'9 playing the 4 that at least you can rebound. But ill tell you this, Id rather have a undersized defensive 4 who makes hustle plays than one who spends most of his time jacking up and missing 3s who plays bad D.

If you as a supposed 4 star recruit let walk ons beat you out, then you HAVE to be doing something wrong.
 
#22
#22
Squoshua17 said:
Who is this clown? Look man, I just produced Renaldo's last couple songs (one of which you guys are really going to like).... I have worked with some really, really bad rappers. And Woolridge is not one of them. The guy has serious talent on the mic.
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So you think his rapping is better than his BB skills or both are good? But seriously "talent on the mic" is real suspect these days. see soulja boy. Just because you can make a few lines rhyme doesnt mean you are ready for primetime... s.w.i.d.t...:shades:
 
#23
#23
10NCVol88 said:
Players take differently to yelling and "berating the press." See Scotty who says the coach knows exactly what he is doing vs Goins who says well it starts from the top. If Wooldridge cant handle criticism he is in the wrong league. When your coach says he wishes you would spend more time on your BB skills than your rap career, then you are doing something really wrong.

As far as the rebounds, i would hope at 6'9 playing the 4 that at least you can rebound. But ill tell you this, Id rather have a undersized defensive 4 who makes hustle plays than one who spends most of his time jacking up and missing 3s who plays bad D.

If you as a supposed 4 star recruit let walk ons beat you out, then you HAVE to be doing something wrong.
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A team of Woolridges would beat a team of Stevies 173 to 12.

It has nothing at all to do with "handling criticism", it has to do with being kicked like a dog again and again, and with being treated with a different standard than, say, the coach's son. Steven wouldn't play more than 3 minutes if his boneheaded plays elicited the same reaction from the coach as any mistake Woolridge makes. It's a rare individual indeed who can perform under such circumstances.

[edited for this addendum] And, incidentally, saying that Scotty's our leader and needs to step up isn't in the ballpark with pitching a hissy and yanking a guy after two minutes of play -- SOLID minutes, I might add -- because of one mistake, then jawing at him all the way to the bench.
 
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