Has never been anything but a volume shooter and the stats back that up. Hasn’t shown up at all for multiple half’s this season, especially since the start of SEC play
Can we all agree Hubbard is not a “great”’player?
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He’s not great. He’s good and could be very good in the right system. I agree that he’s definitely not someone you should build a team around.
For a guy whose main claim to fame is a pure 3 pt shot, 32% for the season is a pretty ugly stat
Strange. I’m old enough to remember when this board was considering him the best ever to wear the maroon and white.
He's a good college player that can breakout occasionally as a great offensive player. Has the skill set to be great but inconsistencies on offense and a middling defense holds him back.
Also the fact that I'm taller than him, and I'm not tall at all.
He's a really good player, especially considering his size. But he has very little quality help.
This is little bit better than average team and they're playing like it. It's unlikely to change.
Do we really need to **** on our best player just so some of you can say “I told you so”?
Takes a special player to out work every player on the floor, never let the team get lazy during the game, coach up players that make mistakes and demand better, take smart shots, make smart plays, and not just hope for a few miracle shots to fall at the end of the end of the game.
Hubbard has none of these qualities, but sometimes, he makes great shots.
Hubbard has none of these qualities, but sometimes, he makes great shots.
I'll take the other side, I don't agree. People have slumps., or poor games.
I'll say the Missouri player defending him played great D, especially in the first half.
I'll say the Missouri player defending him played great D, especially in the first half.
Fair, but look at Curry. He's a great shooter but he never stops running around and off picks.
Haven't you figured that out yet??? People on here live to be "right" about horrible things they post.
He leads the team in assists by a large margin, he leads by a huge margin in free throws made, he is second in steals, he is second in 3 point shooting percentage. I would say he is doing a great job.
Steph Curry is on another planet compared to even a lot of NBA players much less a college player.
Very good. Not great. Not a generational talent to build a team around. Needs a really good point guard and center he can feed and feed off of. He’s not the reason we’re losing. He’s also not going to be the reason we win very often without a better supporting cast. He’ll make some money in Europe later in life.
If you’re a 5’10” guard whose claim to fame is shooting the ball you better be at least 5% higher than that.
How many good picks a game have you seen this team set ?
Zero. That's my point. We play lazy. It's 1 on 5 lazy basketball like they don't really care.
Curry is on another level and teams try to stop him. He just runs off screens all game because he actually wants to win and will work hard to win. Hubbard could score much more if he worked harder and ran around more and the team setup screens. But we just look careless and don't care enough to try that hard.
The other thing is the offensive approach by Chris Jans does not give Hubbard a lot of clean looks. It’s a lot of Hubbard creation.
We need a guard that can handle pressure bringing it down court, he(12) needs to be in the shooting guard position,
It would take off a lot of pressure, IMO
But we don't currently seem to have anyone to fit that bill.
Jans is a defensive coach who’s abandoned that chasing better offense but doesn’t know how to evaluate or coach offense. So he’s got the worst of both now.
Right now I would put Q Weatherspoon ahead of him. Q was a much more consistent player on both ends of the floor.
First of time I’ve mentioned it. Not trying to say “I told you so,” but I was at our Ole Miss game and watched today. Great players don’t disappear for multiple halves a season.
Agree he’s a good player and appreciate what he’s given us, but he’s a “professional” athlete that our athletic department and coach have built a team around with the corresponding publicity/anticipation and he’s not delivering.
Points per game and 3’s made don’t mean anything when your shooting percentage is ~10% for a half.
Is that even a question? On the right team, Hubbard could be deadly. But if you were building a team, I don’t think you ever pick Hubbard over Q unless they are going to be the third best player on the team. In that case, Hubbard skillset could put him above Q. But in most situations, you’re going to pick Q.
and that’s not a knock on Hubbard. Not going to crap on our best player because he’s not the type of generational talent that can make an otherwise weak team good.
I don’t think we’ll ever know how great he is, because he’s going to play his entire career here without any 17ing help whatsoever.
BINGO.
We love to idolize certain players, usually well known ones from the state. Even moreso in the NIL era. Considering Jans has been a successful coach everywhere (and here), it’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. And hey, a sneaky little secret is that we’re seeing the same thing happen in the football program.
Selmon has allowed way too much booster influence. I would imagine we see Jans slap some folks around next year and build his kind of team and try to win his way out.
It’s Auburn bullshlt just on a smaller scale. It won’t happen in baseball bc Oak won’t allow it. As far as Jans goes I put some of it on him for allowing it but I can imagine it’s tough when you’re caught in the middle like that with an idolized player who, for some reason, everyone has anointed as some superstar. I mean Darryl Wilson was better than this dude.
Yeah, look at the future hall of famer who is a legendary shooter, player, and leader!
Hubbard isn't close to doing everything Curry does, so Hubbard sucks!
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Way better defender too but he had the length to be a good defender especially at guard in college.
Hubbard biggest issue is the team around him and the “offense”. There’s not enough contributors on offense to take the pressure off him. You need on any given night to have two other scorers to carry some of that load and teams are keying on him and making the others try to beat them. Epps typically is the secondary scorer on this roster but after that it just falls off to nothing and that’s what we saw last night. Also they are horrid at setting up plays for him. Might have the worst screen setting team I have seen in a long time.