I kept zapping through the Virginia stinker, MN @ Butler and the VA Tech game. Man, it is stunning how little Beran is interested in participating in attacking the basket. Nothing, man turns the triple threat into a single threat every occasional time he touches the ball
After 151 games, he is who he is at this point. His coach seems to value what he brings given that he's started 28 games and gets 22-24mpg, but yeah, his game is pretty set in stone. 2 threes taken or fewer in 21 of 33 games, 4 boards per game, 1 block per game, 1 steal every other game, 1 assist per game, 1 turnover per game.
It’s disappointing because you can see the ceiling just watching his game. It doesn’t even feel like a skill or work ethic gap. Like he has flashed the ability to put the ball on the floor and he has a nice jump shot. He’s shown good-great defense at times. It’s just never fit together for him. He’s a really good help defender and has the ability to generate some blocks. You would hope that he could use his height and athleticism to cause mismatches on the offensive end instead of being a tall spot up shooter. His game just never fully materialized.
Ask yourself this: would you feel better with Beran or Preston on Friday?
He is a solid defender who helped us last season and is helping VT this season.
Considering his career-high is 4 3s, that would be the equivalent of the Aaron Falzon game against IU.
Scoring totals from Beran’s first 7 conference games:
Never developed a pull-up jumper, which would have helped him out a lot. If he faked the 3, his only option was to drive hard to the basket. He had no deception in his game and after getting more than half of his shots at the rim blocked, he gave up and only took 3’s. And he was a bad offensive rebounder, which would have been the other way he could have contributed. I thought he was a good defender his senior year, though. Being a 4-star certainly contributed to the disappointment. This board tends to be more forgiving of scrappy underdogs.
Per Wikipedia he plays for the Maltese National team. Let’s him as Maltese-American.
So he’s the Maltese Jordan?Per Wikipedia he plays for the Maltese National team. Let’s him as Maltese-American.
Aaron Falzon - Wikipedia
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Simply the Maltese Falzon. Duh.
It’s pretty sad to see a kid wind up transferring so many times. Bamisile is on four schools in four years, and has a fifth left. Va Tech, George Washington, Oklahoma, VCU. Never knew what he wanted, but knew that he wasn’t satisfied with his current situation.
As in life, sometimes when you give people the power over their own choices… they don’t make good ones or they don’t work out. All any of us can ever truly ask for is the chance to decide for ourselves.
No surprise here. The Nance family has always seemed very classy.
In the tournament you need to play hard and battle on the boards. Thats not Beran. Preston is (maybe) less skilled offensively, but is tougher.
