Better without X and Toney
- Thread starter snaphook297
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I wonder how much the team would have benefited from giving Nike and Jeffres more minutes even as breathers for them earlier in conference play. We will never know, but encouraging moving forward.
One thing that just might be "better"
is the team chemistry. It looked
pretty good from my vantage point,
which of course was watching on tv.
Playing better as a team for sure.Sibande is a heck of a player.Want him back next year for sure.
I just wish they had left much earlier. We could have been developing the guys who want to be at Pitt. And perhaps then we would have recruited some players for 2021.
Johnson and Toney have more talent than Femi and Sibande but they have 0 intangibles and are not "winning" players.
I like Nike and he had a very good game, but 9 of his points were scored on 3 bad 3pt shots that somehow ended up going in.
Isn’t this the exact opposite of what you’ve been saying since the last loss about Toney?
"0 intangibles"...???
You don't know this, so why
spread that nonsense here.
Are you at practice? Talking
to the coaching staff? Do
you actually know these two?
Since they were freshman they received a ton of playing time. Three years later it is very hard for a young man to adjust mentally to a reduced role. Not because you are worse but because there are more pieces on the team where you can play at reduced minutes and higher intensity.
The big three were always individuals cobbled together. It was a pass to the guy and see what they can do mentality. Its hard to take the street ball out of someone's psyche and play team sets and accept that finding the most open man is best even if you dont get your shots. They helped bridge the gap from 0-18 to moving to a team oriented focus. I appreciate them for that but we are better off long term with the change.
The big three were always individuals cobbled together. It was a pass to the guy and see what they can do mentality. Its hard to take the street ball out of someone's psyche and play team sets and accept that finding the most open man is best even if you dont get your shots. They helped bridge the gap from 0-18 to moving to a team oriented focus. I appreciate them for that but we are better off long term with the change.
I liked Toney. I wished he would have stayed. I probably shouldn't have lumped him in with Johnson.
