I was at Super Bowl party earlier (came home for kids bed time), and me and my buddy had a good talk about next year. We both agreed you have to get Hub to play more of a true point guard position and recruit both a SG and SF that can play both ends of the court to cover for him on defense. Biggest issue is PF and C though.
Yea, back when it was actual college sports. Could we even hold onto a Daryl Wilson or Erick Dampier these days for more than one year?
I thought we would get more out of Padgett but he usually just sits there looking like a goof with the whiteboard in his hands.
I am with you on this. He will have one year left after two rather forgettable one-and-done tourney years and then what should have been his best wasted due to his coach crapping the bed in the portal. If I were in his shoes I would have a very hard time trusting Jans with that last precious season especially if he has a proven or even blue-blood wanting him.
Hubbard does not have the ability to carry this team and maybe nobody does. But for him, he is a defensive liability and it's virtually impossible for him to score when teams are able to collapse a double on him so tightly because we have little other scoring threat, especially in the post. That is why we do just as well when he is out of the game. I believe though that he would thrive with a team that has enough defense to compensate for his and enough offense to keep opposing Ds honest.
Not sure what all the problems are but Hubbard's shooting % has gone in the toilet this year. Maybe he is just off or maybe people have figured out how to defend him but, like you said, he is as much of the problem as anyone right now. Would still like to have him back to finish out his career but at some point you have to say at what price? I believe he is the highest paid athlete on campus (heard 4 mil but that's just hearsay) so is he worth that big of a slice of our MBB budget? Coming into the year I would have said probably yes, but he's not worth that price for how he's currently producing. There are a lot of players who could give us what he has been producing the last 7 or 8 games. Still hopeful he breaks out of the slump.
Since the portal hasn't been a strong suit of Jans coaching, I'm not sure he knows how to do that....................
He is not worth it if that means we cannot get better players around him. This year proves that.
Hubbard's percentages are down because our offensive sets suck and he has to work really hard to get his shot off. He has some really bad days when he has some really strong defenders on him.
He's the rare player who has managed to regress every year. SEC 3-point %
It is safe to say the portal has not been kind to Jans since he has been at State.
Every time he touches the ball on offense he has two players collapsing HARD on him even 30 feet from the basket and we still cannot get the ball to a reliable shooter out of that set. Impossible to score points in that scenario.
