We needed shooting and scoring so much that at the beginning it was worth trying to get him developed to get some of that on the court. The issue was he had no other skills and his weakness caused more problems than anything he helped solve. It was evident fairly quickly.
He pissed down his leg anytime he got trapped - almost a surefire turnover. Hell, bringing the ball up the court caused me to cringe knowing there was a good chance that any sort of press would cause him to melt.
I’m not defending the recruiting services competence is doing what they’re intending, but I do know that they have explicitly and repeatedly stated that the primary objective of their high school basketball recruiting rankings is to predict a player's long-term professional potential—not how good he will be in college, much less how much he will contribute as a freshman.
That is what they claim, but they also massively change ratings based on camp performances, which is a measure of how ready they are now.
Come on dude....
Don’t agree at all on Mo being just as bad, he saved our *** several times.
JJ was/is not good.
He isn't elite athletically, but he's no slouch either. I think his IQ is probably higher than he gets credit for. He was, no doubt, a disappointment last year. I just think there are tools there. He's got work to do, obviously. The biggest question is if he's willing to do it and if he can find the right place to put that work in.
I don't think Pope is a player developer at all. I also don't think JJ has a very good work ethic and his motor/body language sucked. Probably a situation where both sides could/should shoulder the blame.
BOOMER HERE, in my day he would sit on the bench until he got stronger and learned fundamentals, but then again in my day you didn’t have social media where they can do their highlights and fool the young people into thinking they were the next MJ. But then again I’m an old boomer that hasn’t touched a basketball in 40 year, we didn’t play with the gather step, the switch the pivot foot or the hop then step back 3 steps before taking a step through.
He has some really good moments in the Tennessee game. Maybe a couple of nice dump downs to post players in other games. A big shot or two in others. Not much to speak of as his liabilities often made it impossible to keep him on the floor in a season where UK had huge scoreless runs.
Barbour was a jumping jack, if I recall correctly. Disappointing overall, but seem to remember one monster breakaway dunk.
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