Weatherford

[punaj]

I have no idea how good he might be for the boilers but I sure love his enthusiasm on the bench. The camera seems to find him a lot and he is jumping, smiling or running out onto the court and chest bumping someone. Already looks like a line backer too. I sure do hope he brings that Kramer feel next year.

 

[TC4THREE]

One thing I believe about Weatherford is that his top priority will be helping the team win the game in whatever capacity he can.

 

[*4purdue*]

I have no idea how good he might be for the boilers but I sure love his enthusiasm on the bench. The camera seems to find him a lot and he is jumping, smiling or running out onto the court and chest bumping someone. Already looks like a line backer too. I sure do hope he brings that Kramer feel next year.

With our pg by committee, I almost think it might have been better to let him play this year and red shirt him next year when Edwards is on board.

 

[TC4THREE]

With our pg by committee, I almost think it might have been better to let him play this year and red shirt him next year when Edwards is on board.

+1. If history shows us anything its that you never know when you might need a player so we should only redshirt if we are quite certain that player could not help us win games. I'm thinking to how many people wanted to redshirt Cline this season. Where would we be right now if that decision had been made? We'd have probably lost at Pitt and right now we would all be wondering if he was a good enough shooter to pull his redshirt due to Stephens uncertainty heading into the teeth of our conference schedule.

I think the Weatherford redshirt has worked out OK and we will see if we can say the same thing about Smotherman. Part of me thinks he would be of great help to this team in trying to guard athletic wing players that have been costing us lately. Cline playing was clearly the right call.

 

[tjreese]

I have no idea how good he might be for the boilers but I sure love his enthusiasm on the bench. The camera seems to find him a lot and he is jumping, smiling or running out onto the court and chest bumping someone. Already looks like a line backer too. I sure do hope he brings that Kramer feel next year.

more often than not...the one with the warrior attitude is a defensive player. He wants to play solid D and make it his staple...that starts with a mental approach

 

[bonefish1]

If Weatherford is getting a lot of playing time next year, then the team is in trouble.
I really hope he's not another of the 'defensive good/offense bad' type of player that Painter likes.
If your guards aren't a threat to hit open jumpers and then can't create off the dribble, then you're really handcuffing your offense, even if they are good defenders.

 

[depthcharge623]

With our pg by committee, I almost think it might have been better to let him play this year and red shirt him next year when Edwards is on board.

So who would you have redshirted instead? Only so many schollies...

 

[TC4THREE]

If Weatherford is getting a lot of playing time next year, then the team is in trouble.
I really hope he's not another of the 'defensive good/offense bad' type of player that Painter likes.
If your guards aren't a threat to hit open jumpers and then can't create off the dribble, then you're really handcuffing your offense, even if they are good defenders.

Making way too many assumptions here. Let the kid play before you think you have his game nailed down and have written off his college career.

 

[TC4THREE]

So who would you have redshirted instead? Only so many schollies...

You don't have to redshirt anyone.

 

[bonefish1]

Making way too many assumptions here. Let the kid play before you think you have his game nailed down and have written off his college career.

Just going by what I've read on his recruiting profile, other scholly offers, etc.
We all like the 'try hard Johnnies' of the world, but the reality is, teams contending for the Final Four usually only have a couple of them and they're called 'walk ons'.

 

[88btfu92]

If Weatherford is getting a lot of playing time next year, then the team is in trouble.
I really hope he's not another of the 'defensive good/offense bad' type of player that Painter likes.
If your guards aren't a threat to hit open jumpers and then can't create off the dribble, then you're really handcuffing your offense, even if they are good defenders.

You must've read his scouting report.

 

[TC4THREE]

Just going by what I've read on his recruiting profile, other scholly offers, etc.
We all like the 'try hard Johnnies' of the world, but the reality is, teams contending for the Final Four usually only have a couple of them and they're called 'walk ons'.

"Just going by what I've read" LOL

I go back to what I said before. Let the kid play before you think you are an expert on his game.

Also, I think if you go back and look over the years you'll find many examples with Final Four teams that have at least one rotational player that is offensively limited. You just don't remember them because obviously they aren't the big names you remember 5 years down the road. Many of them even scholarships!

 

[88btfu92]

Just going by what I've read on his recruiting profile, other scholly offers, etc.
We all like the 'try hard Johnnies' of the world, but the reality is, teams contending for the Final Four usually only have a couple of them and they're called 'walk ons'.

Plan D.

 

[tjreese]

If Weatherford is getting a lot of playing time next year, then the team is in trouble.
I really hope he's not another of the 'defensive good/offense bad' type of player that Painter likes.
If your guards aren't a threat to hit open jumpers and then can't create off the dribble, then you're really handcuffing your offense, even if they are good defenders.

If I were a betting person I would be that he will be better on D than O

 

[Statey]

So who would you have redshirted instead? Only so many schollies...

I think you're misunderstanding how redshirting works... scholarship players who redshirt are still on scholarship the year they redshirt, and they still count against the 13 scholarship limit.