We may really miss him as early as Tuesday if Kolek gets cooking.
Amani reminds me of Tim Duncan. Of course not saying he is or will ever approach being that good, but just plays hard and doesn’t make mistakes. Not flashy, but all of a sudden you look up at the end of the game and he has 14 and 10 and his team wins.
Amani is definitely ahead of the curve of where you'd expect a freshman big to be. He still needs that upperclassmen strength as his play against Kansas showed, but I'm very excited to see him after a summer with Fletch to sculpt him and get the strength needed to bang against P5 bigs. Once he gets that, he's going to be a force to deal with as he passes the eye test to me.
Where do you get that he was barely going to play??? We are definitely going to miss him this season. There is no one on the team who brings the fire and passion that he brings to the team. You need to watch the Northwestern game if you need to refresh your memory just to name one of the instances where he turned the game in our favor
Off topic, but I hate airball chants. Makes me cringe every time I hear it, in any game.
I don’t really mind it but I wish they were more clever as every fanbase out there shouts that.
There's always some bad blood against CoHawk from fans. Personally I wouldn't complain if he hit his 3pts at > 35% rate with enough attempts.
I’m probably one of the few that doesn’t cringe automatically when he shoots. I agree with conch, he needs to shoot. When he stops and thinks, it’s already too late. In the Kansas game, his shots were all within the flow of the game and he looked good. That was definitely not the case on Monday. I think the fans get frustrated bc they know he’s got the physical tools but overthinks.
How about a slightly less athletic, Al Horford?
Or less athletic EJ Liddell?
I wouldn't put too much weight on the EIU game since he only plays 14 min and Indy or who said he was sick. But overall, we need to see his 3pt consistency. I agree that he needs to shoot. That's where his value is at for offence.
And, if we’re thinking of the same problem play, it wasn’t so much that his friend was invisible more than it was a very visible foe got in the way.
I'll miss this. I love when he goes into berserker mode.This!
You can pause the radio a couple of seconds, if you use Dan's link. You can also do it with the B1G+ broadcast. It took a couple of tries, but it is not difficult.
I don't want to look too far ahead, but a frontcourt of Amani and Morez is really exciting. There might not be any rebounds left for anybody else when those two are out there together.
Amani has been a pleasant surprise to me as he doesn't seem to be getting much time in the exhibition and early games. He has good hands that appear to be very sticky and soft. He caught a pass on a break from Domask right in front of the basket in traffic and scored that I believe Kofi or Dain would have mishandled or lost the ball. On top of that he can hit threes. That is a big plus he has over most of our recent post players.
Really? He played a ton during the first exhibition and 14 minutes against EIU. That is a lot for a freshman on an old and deep team.
