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Monday, November 5, 2007
Hoopsters’ picture still fuzzy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’ve got nothing to add to the football discussions right now, and we’ll be blogging on the pigskiners later in the week.
If you were at Friday night’s basketball scrimmage, I’d be curious what you thought.
Before going on, Zach Peacock (stress reaction in foot/precursor to stress fracture) won’t be playing for a while. He’s certainly out of Friday’s opener against UNC-Greensboro, and Sunday’s game at Tenn. State. Don’t be surprised if he doesn’t play in the Virgin Islands the following week, either.
Hewitt said Zack is too valuable to bring back early to risk breaking that foot. Paul even said if he needs to hold him out that long to be super sure the risk is gone, Peacock might not play until mid-December. That’s the pessimistic view. Maybe around the first of the month he’s ready. Possibly sooner, but I kind of doubt it. I’d say Nov. 27 at Indiana at the earliest. But as I’ve written before, I’m no doctor.
Quick thoughts: Morrow and Smith do indeed look to be in great shape.
Tech is more athletic than in recent years.
I can’t pick a point guard, not that I have too. Causey was nursing that twisted knee, but man, nine assists in 13 minutes? He has vision, for sure. Mo Miller, bigger, can get in the lane once in a while. His length, not that it’s overwhelming of course, probably gives him an edge on defense. Causey really struggled at times to keep up.
Clinch changes what Tech can do offensively, almost by himself. Too early to tell if he’s improved much defensively, but that’s really what Hewitt wants to see.
Sheehan has some skills once he gets the ball above his head, doesn’t dilly-dally with the ball in his hands, but is not very strong yet. His minutes will remain up while Peacock and Dickey are out. After they return, his minutes will drop unless he really takes off in December. Reminded me of a junior version of Kyle Visser, who became a very good big man by his senior season at Wake. Very pedestrian as a freshman, though. Visser was much, much stronger by the time he was a senior, and probably stronger as a freshman. Both have a knack for being in the right place at the time.
Didn’t seen enough of Lawal or Storrs to have an opinion, but apparently Storrs has been shooting lights out in practice/scrimmages.
Mouhammed Faye is not going to play as much this season. Period. Whether playing inside or out, and he can do some of both, he’s on the back end of a logjam.
One thing that may work against Causey being the starting point guard is his defense. If he’s at point, do you put Clinch and Morrow at the wings at the same time? Isn’t there a little too much defensive exposure there? Then again, if Morrow has improved as much as he is said to have improved defensively (not bad Friday), and Clinch is better, who knows? I think, though, that when Causey’s at point, Bell usually will be one of the wings.
Later.
Matt
