slufan13 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Why isn't he seeing any time at all? He didn't look good running the point but neither does McBroom. If Lancona and Agbeko can get minutes, I don't see why he can't. At least he can get to the basket sometimes and hit free throws. Also seems like a pest type of defender. He's certainly won't come in and fix all our problems but I don't understand at all why he doesn't see any court time at all especially when it's not like AM is some stud at running the offense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseOfTheBillikens Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Why isn't he seeing any time at all? He didn't look good running the point but neither does McBroom. If Lancona and Agbeko can get minutes, I don't see why he can't. At least he can get to the basket sometimes and hit free throws. Also seems like a pest type of defender. He's certainly won't come in and fix all our problems but I don't understand at all why he doesn't see any court time at all especially when it's not like AM is some stud at running the offense. You guys cry about rotation being to big than cry when bottom tier players don't get minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 You guys cry about rotation being to big than cry when bottom tier players don't get minutes. Meaningless post. Everyone plays except Reynolds (until now) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabills Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I wonder if it's a attitude. The game after he had his 19pt game he tweeted something like "you can't teach determination" and he was never the same after that career high. Maybe it made him cocky and it showed in his practices, so jc is sending him a long hard message? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billikenboy Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I wonder if it's a attitude. The game after he had his 19pt game he tweeted something like "you can't teach determination" and he was never the same after that career high. Maybe it made him cocky and it showed in his practices, so jc is sending him a long hard message? Ya think?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabills Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Ya think?!? i do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For-DaLove Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Why isn't he seeing any time at all? He didn't look good running the point but neither does McBroom. If Lancona and Agbeko can get minutes, I don't see why he can't. At least he can get to the basket sometimes and hit free throws. Also seems like a pest type of defender. He's certainly won't come in and fix all our problems but I don't understand at all why he doesn't see any court time at all especially when it's not like AM is some stud at running the offense. Because he has looked terrible in every game of his college career and doesn't show anything in practice. Look, I like the kid and hope he has a good career here, but he's simply not ready to get meaningful playing time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettFlight5 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Because he has looked terrible in every game of his college career and doesn't show anything in practice. Look, I like the kid and hope he has a good career here, but he's simply not ready to get meaningful playing time. I think he more or less won the A & T game by himself, so I wouldn't say terrible in every game. Practice, on the other hand, isn't seen by all...so if he's not bringing it there, he's not going to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 I have no idea what he's doing in practice so I'll defer to you there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milwaukeebill Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I honestly think he got bailed out alot by the refs in that a&t game. Loved the tenacity he had but the skill wasn't where it had to be to think he was going to continue anywhere near that stat line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChosenOne Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I honestly think he got bailed out alot by the refs in that a&t game. Loved the tenacity he had but the skill wasn't where it had to be to think he was going to continue anywhere near that stat line I have never seen anything like Reynolds in that game. He looked like he was playing on ice, just no control of his body. Fortunately he was getting foul calls, but it seemed like fools gold. I would like to see him play some minutes though because he has nice length and seems pretty quick, maybe he can draw a few fouls, get the ball going to the rim a bit, and apply some pressure on defense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moytoy12 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 If mcbroom isn't hitting his shot and MR is aggressive/getting to the FT line, how big of a drop off between the 2 is there if we play MR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmbilliken Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 MR doesn't have an outside shot and I can't recall him making any of his contested drives to the basket. I do recall him looking decent once on a nice 10 foot pull up jumper, but I haven't seen him try that shot since. What does he project as? A defensive specialist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Another thread about this, huh? This at first puzzled me too, but the more I see of him and the other guys the less surprising it gets to me. Since the A&T game (and not counting Rockhurst), he is 1-19 from the field with 5 assists and 10 turnovers. I have no idea what goes on in practice or what Crews' opinion on his Twitter feed is (but at least he hasn't posted any topless selfies, right?), but I imagine that stat line has something to do with him finding himself at the very back end of the rotation. I agree Lancona hadn't shown much more until last night, except Lancona played some serviceable minutes in some really big games last year. Outside of the one game where Reynolds fouled out (SDS, I think) he has gotten the calls pretty consistently. So I'm not sure you can pass off his ability to get to the line as luck or gifts from the refs. That said, I'm not sure how much the rotation is missing when you sit a guy whose only real value right now comes from shooting free throws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clock_Tower Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Another thread about this, huh? This at first puzzled me too, but the more I see of him and the other guys the less surprising it gets to me. Since the A&T game (and not counting Rockhurst), he is 1-19 from the field with 5 assists and 10 turnovers. I have no idea what goes on in practice or what Crews' opinion on his Twitter feed is (but at least he hasn't posted any topless selfies, right?), but I imagine that stat line has something to do with him finding himself at the very back end of the rotation. I agree Lancona hadn't shown much more until last night, except Lancona played some serviceable minutes in some really big games last year. Outside of the one game where Reynolds fouled out (SDS, I think) he has gotten the calls pretty consistently. So I'm not sure you can pass off his ability to get to the line as luck or gifts from the refs. That said, I'm not sure how much the rotation is missing when you sit a guy whose only real value right now comes from shooting free throws. Typical Billiken Board labeling of a player by his limitations and then discarding of him. We see very little of these guys in games (and when we do, alot depends upon the time of the game he enters, the role he is told to fill, the score of the game and the other guys he is on the floor with). Based upon my watching of MB and MR during the pre-season scrimmage (and after reading all the false information from this Board), it sure didn't look to me like we would get much out of MB this year but that MR was ready to go. Obviously, JC sees something different each day. Then, when JC was using his 12 man rotation with substitutions apparently based upon equal time instead of effectiveness on the Court, I frankly saw next to nothing that MB should be our starting PG. Again, none of us are at practice and none of us really has a clue as to how the guys are doing each day at practice. And those who do/might know are obviously keeping quiet. Then, "all of a sudden", MB starts at PG and has the game he had against GW. Again, next to nothing anyone of us saw in prior games could have prepared us for what he did in the GW game. Same with Roby who missed a ton of shots in prior games and then seemed to stop shooting as much and work on his defense and other skills (maybe JC told him to do this). Anyway, this Board had declared Roby incapable of shooting, criticized his shooting form as well, and wondered why he is getting any minutes at all much less some minutes... and then we see him make a bunch of 3 pointers against GW. Now, based upon the very little we see of MR coming off the bench in limited situations as our 3rd PG, this Board claims he cannot shoot, he cannot do this, he cannot do that, and that, excuses away all his accomplishments as being bailed out by the refs, states that all he can do is shoot FTs... What a bunch of bullsh#t. And, of course, the more times it is said... the more it is believed. All of these guys are freshmen are are going to look really good one day not the next. That is normal. That is expected. Stick with them and don't treat them like a veteran. Admittedly, I have been very critical of guys like GG, JM, AM and even Ash. These guys, though, have been out of high school for 4 years and have had numerous chances -- some both here and elsewhere!! So much more is expected of them. And if these guys are still inconsistent, then why keep playing them?? Are we trying to make AM our starting PG and play him 32 mpg? I sure hope not!! Rebuild now and let the young guys show us what they can do and not do. When the last time GG, JM or Ash ever scored 19 points? The answer is never!! with or without "help" from the refs. And to the GG fanclub, it is too bad we didn't have GG and his 3 to 5 points and 4 rebounds against Davidson!! Should MR start this next game? -- most probably not. Should he get backup PG time? Absolutely. Should MB and DR keep getting major minutes even if they struggle? Absolutely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Partially in jest. I'll rip a lot of players, but not one who potentially could be building us a new arena 40 years down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Oh please, get off yourself. Never once did I advocate "discarding" Reynolds. Typical of the hand-wringing, taking-one's-self-way-too-seriously of a certain contingent on this board to even suggest that. This thread was asking (yet again) why he hasn't been playing much lately. For anyone not named Jim Crews, there is some degree of speculation involved in answering that question. However, his in-game performance in recent weeks and months has been very obviously one-dimensional and one very obvious reason why he might not be getting more minutes. I have repeatedly praised Reynolds for being an apparently smart kid and an obviously talented (and fast) guard. But there are only so many minutes to go around, especially in a deep rotation like this one. To say it is "discarding" him to point out some obvious reasons his coach might have had for cutting his minutes is impossible to take seriously. I guess there has just not been enough drama on this board lately, so we need to create some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 When the last time GG, JM or Ash ever scored 19 points? The answer is never!! with or without "help" from the refs. Yacoubou scored 17 (with 8 rebounds, three assists, and only one turnover) more recently than Reynolds' big second half against A&T. Manning has had two games with 4 blocks and 6 rebounds (sadly a good number for this team) since then. And Glaze scored 25 points and picked up 25 rebounds in two games last year during the non-conference schedule. When was the last time Reynolds did any of those things, with or without the help of the refs? This arbitrary numbers game sure is fun when comparing different players from different classes who play different positions and fill different roles, isn't it? I'm not sure what you think belittling the contributions of those three proves in terms of Reynolds deserving to play more than he is. Are you "discarding" Glaze (member of three and starter on two tourney teams), Manning (role player on three tourney teams), and Yacoubou (our presumed preseason MVP this year)? Or are you just "discarding" Crews because he has decided to keep Reynolds out of the regular rotation over the past few weeks? Silly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clock_Tower Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Yacoubou scored 17 (with 8 rebounds, three assists, and only one turnover) more recently than Reynolds' big second half against A&T. Manning has had two games with 4 blocks and 6 rebounds (sadly a good number for this team) since then. And Glaze scored 25 points and picked up 25 rebounds in two games last year during the non-conference schedule. When was the last time Reynolds did any of those things, with or without the help of the refs? This arbitrary numbers game sure is fun when comparing different players from different classes who play different positions and fill different roles, isn't it? I'm not sure what you think belittling the contributions of those three proves in terms of Reynolds deserving to play more than he is. Are you "discarding" Glaze (member of three and starter on two tourney teams), Manning (role player on three tourney teams), and Yacoubou (our presumed preseason MVP this year)? Or are you just "discarding" Crews because he has decided to keep Reynolds out of the regular rotation over the past few weeks? Silly. 19 Send me the link for those 2 games where GG scored 25 points in each game. Or are you saying that GG had 2 games where he combined for 25 points -- such as 12 points 1 game and 13 the next. If so, then neither equals 19 ppg. As to Ash, again, 17 points is less than 19 points. Now, you're not the guy who told us that Ash is the next Larry Hughes, are you? And sorry, but that 4 block and 6 rebound game of JM just doesn't stand out for me. Now, had JM had scored 19 points, then I would probably remember. And you're right, your comments are silly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 And you're right, your comments are silly. Ah, the ever-incisive "I know you are but what am I?" defense--how many warning points is that worth? >=19, I'm thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidnark Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Then, when JC was using his 12 man rotation with substitutions apparently based upon equal time instead of effectiveness on the Court, I frankly saw next to nothing that MB should be our starting PG. Again, none of us are at practice and none of us really has a clue as to how the guys are doing each day at practice. And those who do/might know are obviously keeping quiet. Then, "all of a sudden", MB starts at PG and has the game he had against GW. Again, next to nothing anyone of us saw in prior games could have prepared us for what he did in the GW game. Clock, I have been preaching for this lineup for over a month. See http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26114&page=7#entry434058 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Clock, I have been preaching for this lineup for over a month. See http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26114&page=7#entry434058 Nark, can I lay claim to shot gun seat on the Bartley bandwagon at least? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Nark, can I lay claim to shot gun seat on the Bartley bandwagon at least? A few of us have been wanting to see more of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACE Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A few of us have been wanting to see more of him. Before the season started, I was saying Bartley would make a bigger impact than Reynolds! I also speculated that when we signed MY in the spring, he was going to be our best recruit. I also said AG was going to redshirt and I was off on a few other things, but let's not talk about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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