ill start by saying, i love that you bring a different perspective … different perspectives add color to this place even if we dont agree
but im the exact opposite of you … mercy is the best path to greatness, and corey hadnot is a great 6th man spark plug
on why i dont want hadnot starting- he is probably way shorter than his listed height… {lol funny side note, i just search his listed height and UH already removed an inch from his listing}… hadnot is good on everything on offense, but isnt great at anything… not a dig but i dont think hadnot can score on top defenses if he is the vocal point of the defense … IMO his best role will be off the bench when teams arent focusing on him, and he takes over certain games… defense and rebounding were just okay, he lacks physicality but hustles
Why im a believer in mercy- mercy was efficient … mercy will not be hot from 3 start to finish, but he heavily drives. mercy is a dominant rebounder. mercy has the body to be a dominant phyiscal defender (even tho he isnt there yet)
efficiency- he was 54% efg% which is very good for a guard (top 15 among big 12 guards)… but the magic part was that he started the year off slow, if you remove the 1st 10 games, and just look at the remaining 27 games he was 57.4% which would have had him 6th in the league
minutes: i think mercyis being docked for him minutes last year… but last year team was just deep, houston only plays 5 guards a year…the benefit of every previous star guard is we only had 5 deserving minute guards … some years we only played for… last year we had 7, he was battling with a top 10 5star for the 6th spot … but on a per possession level, mercy was just as good as every previous star the year before they broke out
Size: Mercy is 6’4 and very muscular … mercy is a physical rebounder … when he isnt scoring he can likely still contribute as rebounder …potential defensive presence
Fluff that doesnt matter and means nothing but still makes me excited
mercys brother posted a clip of mercy hitting 25 of 29 3s, and captioned that mercy adjusted his shot this offseason to have a higher and quicker release
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcmQNLfSkYV/?hl=en
some clips from a college/pro run from last week
https://www.instagram.com/p/DclnbHYEhBl/?hl=en
mercy and acaden lewis (major star for miami/PG) did a bunch of drills challenge with a very well known trainer, mercy swept all of them
https://youtu.be/-ej6usdHoUM?si=Iz_3Wz7RIkpyCSu8.
none of those means anything… but still get me excited
overall i think hadnot has a higher floor from experience, but i think as team we have a way higher cieiling with mercy as the starter