My Terrible Opinions on Our Big Men

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We don’t know how much Francis or Tugler will improve by next season. But while some of the guys are downing Francis, look at his stats in comparison with the rest of the team (I am not listing Shead’s due to lack of PT).

Cryer: 39 Min, 15 Pts. 7 of 14 FG, 1 of 3 from the 3, 0 of 0 FTs
Roberts: 29 Min, 13 Pts. 5 of 9 FG, 0 of 0 from the 3, 3 of 8 FTs
Sharp: 36 Min, 7 Pts. 2 of 7 FG, 0 of 2 from the 3, 3 of 3 FTs
Francis: 34 Min, 7 Pts. 3 of 6 FG, 0 of 0 from the 3, 1 of 4 FTs

Walker had 3, Dunn, Wilson, and Shead all had 2 pts and that was all the scoring. I would say that complaints about Francis is unwarranted.

Edit: I corrected the minutes played.

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You can’t tell me our guys weren’t effected by Shead going down. They knew his status. They played hard but i wouldn’t judge them by this game

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Francis is a role player and he played it well. A lot of upside remains for him.

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Aren’t all players role players and each has a different role.

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Duke is not good. We lost because Shead got injured …… PERIOD, end of story.

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Nothing says you’re not good like being up by 6 right now at the half in an elite 8 game

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Their path to this point has been a joke.

13 Seed Vermont
12 Seed James Madison
Beat us by 3 with our star player injured
11 Seed NC State that has went on a flukey run.

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I hate the whole u didn’t beat anyone narrative in the NCAA tournament. They said the same thing about us a few years ago during our Final 4 run or whatever that was. NC State has been on fire. Just in the last couple weeks they have taken down Duke, North Carolina, Texas Tech, Marquette, Virginia and more. It’s not fair to play a team like that and win and have others sit there and call them an easy win

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Look how much Roberts has improved offensively, goes left or right to basket now, is deadly off of the glass, why can’t Francis learn some moves down low and shake and bake lol

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Only took Roberts 4 years to become an offensive presence, 5 to become a force.

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I mean the ACC has decent competition too and North Carolina is a basketball crazy state.
I’m not surprised NC ST is hanging with Duke.

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There’s no substitute for experience, IMHO. A kid can be a great freshman play, but he will be better as a senior.

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I hate this argument.

You play whoever is in front of you… you know like when UH went to our final four facing the no. 15, 10, 11, and 12 seeds.

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Big men have to adapt to teams shifting to more 3 point and perimeter play the past 10 years.
I’m not surprised that Roberts has improved since he gets many 1 v 1 situations down low.

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it is bit of a pot meet kettle moment but at least we handled business when we got the luck of the draw unlike duke rn lol

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All three of them got after him pretty good.

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He also scored 40 points and led his team to the final four with a good chance to win a title
I don’t know if Francis will ever be a scorer so hopefully we have a guard who can draw a crowd and give him chances at alley oops.
I cringe every time he launches that left hand hook

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Francis and Tugler will both improve.

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I have no doubt Tugler will and hoping Francis will.
Tugler has good form and will eventually be shooting treys.
Just hoping Francis can learn to take the ball down low and hit layups without turning the ball over

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Duke getting killed by NC St lol

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