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RE: Thanksgiving Game Week Men's Basketball
(11-30-2022 10:55 PM)RamyEMU Wrote:  
(11-30-2022 07:07 PM)Jerry Weaver Wrote:  
(11-30-2022 02:17 PM)RamyEMU Wrote:  
(11-30-2022 07:52 AM)Luckeyone Wrote:  
(11-29-2022 11:01 PM)RamyEMU Wrote:  I like Super’s idea to put Emoni in the center position. For all the detractors of this idea, Emoni is currently leading the team in both rebounds (6.3/game) and blocked shots (0.5/game). Emoni seems best suited to be our needed tall athletic shot blocker at cehter. Randle still feels like he is developing, but should be able to spell Emoni for 7 min/game… so I am with Super on this 07-coffee3

Do you really think someone weighing 180 LBs can guard someone at 230-240 in the post? Did you watch the last game where Geeter got backed down. I suspect Emoni would foul out in 5 minutes if he played center.

Hmmmm, definitely very good points… but maybe if it is part of an overall defensive scheme it would work. The threat of Emoni blocking the shot is there, so they will tend to back him down instead, which is a slow process, at which time someone comes to help on defense…. I don’t know but something needs to be done defensively. What are your thoughts?

Replay the UCSD game and witness Emoni conceding a layup to a small guard with no effort to block it. He is not interested in being a shot-blocker and as Lucky mentioned, he simply does not have the body to play the five position.

Heath tried Randle against UCSD but he clearly is NOT ready for prime time. He looked lost and he suffers from the same bulk problems that Emoni has.

The last three NCAA champions Kansas, Baylor and Virginia did not have a rim-protecting center. They did, however, play very good defense. They moved their feet, helped when their teammate got beat off the dribble and crashed the boards. Thats effort I don't see from us right now.

First response, Emoni leads the team in blocked shots.
Second response, the whole team watches layups go in. This is NOT exclusive to Emoni.

Being the EMU team leader of blocked shots is an awfully unremarkable distinction for the tallest player on the roster with FOUR in SEVEN contests. You are correct, the rest of the team has played very passive defense as well. For all I know, Heath may be on-board with him not contesting layups so as to avoid foul trouble. I merely made an observation about his game with respect to him playing center.
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