although i did mean prep school, not high school
right i agree with all that.
but he wanted to go to the 2020 class, and he could have used it because of his ankle injury. then he found out he couldn't go to his prep school and he had nowhere to go so he stayed 2019.
he really could have used that year for him. uc benefited from him not getting it because he likely wouldn't have come here.
or he could have used a red-shirt this year. we weren't in a spot to give one.
This is silly. He shouldn’t still be in high school. He’s the same kinda freshman that Gary Clark was, that Jarron Cumberland was, that Jacob Evans was.
He’s a freshman in college.
Prince Gilliam. Now that’s a guy who’s first year should been in high school. Which is why he redshirted. He was a true reclassify.
Gary was a 20 year old freshman
https://gobearcats.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/gary-clark/7097
But Justin is right here. Zach should be a college freshman right now. He's 19.
I just meant that Gary was a 4 year high school player. He didn’t go to prep school.
I have no idea why some kids end up being 20 as freshman.
I was 17 through my entire senior year of high school and didn’t turn 18 until late July.
But I guess it all depends on if you did 2 years of preschool and when your birthday falls
i'm not really sure what argument you guys think im trying to make.
If Harvey could have gone to prep school, or red-shirted this season, then he could have been 100% healthy for his freshman year.
As it is he really couldn't play much at all before mid feb. Kind of a wasted year for him and his career.
Thats all I'm saying. Harvey is a year younger than MAW almost to the day and a year and a half younger than Davenport.
Guys go to prep school for all kinds of reasons.
Your original point sounded like you were defending ZH's lack of success because he was young. At least thats what it sounded like to me. Justin pointed out he isn't young.
Age had absolutely nothing to do with it, I didn't even have any idea what his age was.
I just knew he wanted to go to the 2020 class. And with the injury, it probably would have been better for him.
actually MAW and Harvey share the same birthday. MAW is just a year older.
I continue to submit that Vogt lost us as many games (or more) than he won for us, even early in the season.
He was at least arguably doing more good than harm when he was scoring. Now he is borderline unplayable with his defense and lack of scoring.
The difference between the defensive abilities of Vogt and Diarra is huge. When Vogt is in we double Vogt's man, collapse more guys to the paint to provide help and have trouble stopping the drive. With Diarra in we don't need to double, Diarra cuts off drives before they even start and provides good help defense in the paint (though he is still learning when to go for the block and when he should back-off and box-out).
Diarra is averaging only 1.3 fewer points in conference than Vogt, rebounds better, defends better and can stretch the floor by shooting threes. Yes, he is more mistake prone, but we've seen that if he's given time and a chance to play through the mistakes, he is a better player than Vogt (and has way more potential).
I was trying to think about our long season of never playing well on both sides of the ball at the same time.
Was the 13 minute stretch vs USF the longest we've played well on both sides all season?
I felt like at home vs Tenn we had stretches of both, vs Tulsa, and SMU as well.
yeah about the same in those games too.
this team has so many of those stretches where they really act like they don't know what a basketball is. those stretches are responsible for so many of our losses.
We'll have these stretches were a bunch of our turnovers come in a 6 minute span. Or vs Houston the vast majority of their offensive boards were in like a 7 minute span.
The hope was by the end of the year that would get cleaned up, but it just never happened.
