In the post-game press conference, Collins was talking about having so many young players on the floor at the end of the game and how that was encouraging, especially since "our most talented player, Vic Law" has been out all year. After watching the team this year, it's pretty clear that Law is much more athletic than anyone else on the team. Lindsey has pretty good size and hops but he is not particularly quick or fast. It will be interesting to see how Law is used in the lineup (2 or 3) and if there is any rust. I think he is able to shoot now so hopefully he can spend a lot of time just working on his shot and his moves. I would love to see him develop more of a back to the basket game, because he should be taller than a lot of guys guarding him. He showed a little of that last year. I doubt he's going to be 15 point a game guy next year but it would be great if he can be more of a multi-dimensional scorer that can get 10 points a game most nights. I wonder if we could go with a really tall lineup of McIntosh, Law, Falzon, Skelly, RI or Lumpkin, and Pardon sometimes?
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I can't wait to see Vic play again. He'll have some rust in the early OOC games, but apparently he's put on weight and as you suggest the year off should allow him to work on some moves. I think he's going to have a strong Soph season next year.
That tall line-up sounds good but it's got to be Skelly or RI at the 4. Just don't get all the love for Lumpkin. The biggest worry will be at center where Pardon needs to stop the reach in fouls, since his only back-up will be a true freshman, unless CC brings in a 5th year transfer again.
The competition this off-season will be awesome. I'd like to see Vic play shooting guard and Skelly play some center. Putting Gavin at center would probably require us to stick to zone, but we could have five 3-point shooters out there at once and plenty of speed and athleticism. I'm very, very excited for next year.
Skelly is the perfect center for the Princeton "O". I hope BC uses him there-good passer and respectable shooter-, sorryoh wait
Uh, you are mistaken-- BC is currently quite busy getting his team into the NCAA tournament...
Indeed, he has a shot at it. Billy C is two wins away from the Big Dance after first winning a Patriot League tourney "play-in" round game (#8 vs #9) and then knocking off #1 seed Bucknell in double overtime. That win featured a Holy Cross fallaway three-pointer as time expired in the first overtime to even the score at 65-65. Cardiac Crusaders?
They play Army (#4) at West Point on Sunday.
I just mean having surgery, doing rehab, and skipping a year of BB will take longer to recover from than we wish. I know they are young but I think we forget how hard it is to return to the elite level of play we are talking about.
Is he still to busy to issue a public thank you statement to the university that paid him millions for 13 years and the kids who played for him and made that possible? probably some since he was also to busy to be in Evanston when atop recruit was visiting with his family, who incidentally had numerous NU ties.
This is a good point. If things go to plan (ha!), we should have enough wing depth to let him ease into the season off the bench, if necessary.
I agree with the view that it will take him a while to round into shape. But given that it is left, non-dominant shoulder, it might not be as hard to recover as if it had been his right shoulder. And remember this is the second labrum tear he has had, ad he seemed to be OK after the first......
If Law is the starting 2, that *is* the lineup, right? (Well, except that you've got six guys on the court.)
Mac-Law-Skelly-Falzon-Pardon makes a lot of sense.
The offense will look different, though, simply because Demps is such a dominating presence.
Yup, too busy. This NCAA tourney stuff requires all of his attention at this time.
For the number of times people (specifically koolaiders) have jumped on me for beating a dead horse (ie - Vasser, springer, etc.) - where are you now? Oh, that's right, double standard. Nice. Well, more BC crapola please....
Right, he's coaching in a low mid-major conference and a bad team. Now webb, GIVE IT UP!
Since someone turned a Vic Law appreciation thread into a Carmody discussion, it's perhaps worth pointing out Law's family was turned off by BC and has been quoted saying he never would have come here during the Carmody regime.
As an automatic bid and a 16 seed. I guess that's an accomplishment, but if anyone thinks they could beat NU, they'd be sorely mistaken.
So, great. Carmody has proven before he can take a team from a mid-major conference and get them to the NCAAs. He's also proven he can't do it in the B1G.
I'm glad Carmody is gone. Thankful for what he contributed to NU, but we are far better off with Collins at the helm.
sarcastic attack - funny thing, they are in
more whining
more sarcasm - but now it looks like Mikey might just be a big fan of BC and his prep work
stalwart from the glorious (strong sarcasm) VA - Doc BC battles....
I'm talking about the 4 billion posts about BC, about his firing, about his unwillingness to speak publicly about NU, etc. One BC post after the next, one thread down the tubes after the next.
Here, I talk feverishly about Vasser or Springer on the football side for a week or two (or God forbid, surface the topic was in a blue moon thereafter...) - and a number of you folks tell me to knock off after a very short period of time in comparison to the BC crapola. I find it hypocritical and ridiculous.
I see what you did there. Excuse me, gotta run, I need to go raise the Vasser issue on about twenty active threads...
sarcastic attack - funny thing, they are in
more whining
more sarcasm - but now it looks like Mikey might just be a big fan of BC and his prep work
stalwart from the glorious (strong sarcasm) VA - Doc BC battles....
I'm talking about the 4 billion posts about BC, about his firing, about his unwillingness to speak publicly about NU, etc. One BC post after the next, one thread down the tubes after the next.
Here, I talk feverishly about Vasser or Springer on the football side for a week or two (or God forbid, surface the topic was in a blue moon thereafter...) - and a number of you folks tell me to knock off after a very short period of time in comparison to the BC crapola. I find it hypocritical and ridiculous.
Sounds like someone has a chip on their shoulder...
Certainly not over an entire season. I thought he played pretty well the last quarter of the season last year. He had an 18 and 11 game against Penn State and a 14 and 8 game against Indiana in back to back games. I think he shot close to 50% from 3 the last 7 or 8 games of the season. My optimism about his ability to improve the team is not just based on his recruiting ranking or his athletic skills. He did some good things near the end of last year, especially for a freshman that had struggled earlier. And I think he was the second leading rebounder on the team.
