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RJ is not a point guard

Grover Thomas

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One of the problems with this team is we put the ball in the hands of a guy, RJ, who don’t have point guard in his blood. He is a shooter who wants to score . This is why is dribbles so much….he don’t want to pass the ball because he wants to be a scorer. You saw it tonight.

A UNC point guard is a pass first PG. RJ is a look for his shot first PG and it kills the chemistry of the team. Tonight as bad as both our guards played Love had 3 assist 3 turnovers to R J’s 1 assist 2 turnovers.

How in the hell can you have the ball in your hands tgat much and dribble as much as RJ and have 1 damn assist?
 
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One of the problems with this team is we put the ball in the hands of a guy, RJ, who don’t have point guard in his blood. He is a shooter who wants to score . This is why is dribbles so much….he don’t want to pass the ball because he wants to be a scorer. You saw it tonight.

A UNC point guard is a pass first PG. RJ is a look for his shot first PG and it kills the chemistry of the team. Tonight as bad as both our guards played Love had 3 assist 3 turnovers to R J’s 1 assist 2 turnovers.

How in the hell can you have the ball in your hands tgat much and dribble as much as RJ and have 1 damn assist?
They missed like 5 open 3s he passed out to off penetration. If the team makes shots, they win easily.

Joel Berry was the same type of PG and won a championship at UNC.
 
They missed like 5 open 3s he passed out to off penetration. If the team makes shots, they win easily.

Joel Berry was the same type of PG and won a championship at UNC.
JB didn’t dribble the shot clock away and didn’t destroy team chemistry. I’m telling you nowHD need to put Love back at point and move RJ at the 2.
 
One of the problems with this team is we put the ball in the hands of a guy, RJ, who don’t have point guard in his blood. He is a shooter who wants to score . This is why is dribbles so much….he don’t want to pass the ball because he wants to be a scorer. You saw it tonight.

A UNC point guard is a pass first PG. RJ is a look for his shot first PG and it kills the chemistry of the team. Tonight as bad as both our guards played Love had 3 assist 3 turnovers to R J’s 1 assist 2 turnovers.

How in the hell can you have the ball in your hands tgat much and dribble as much as RJ and have 1 damn assist?
I agree he struggled the whole team is struggling but it was the switch to RJ last year that got us going and took us to the National Championship game.
 
I agree he struggled the whole team is struggling but it was the switch to RJ last year that got us going and took us to the National Championship game.
No is wasn’t….in that run we made….Caleb Love played PG when it mattered. Love had the ball at the closing minutes of every close game. HD knew who could make the play when it had to be made.

Look right now at who is leading us in assist….think about that for a moment…with RJ dominating the ball…Love leads us in assist.
 
yes, he's shoot first pass second, but isn't everybody nowadays? it's pretty much look for your shot and pass if you must. the pass first point guard is a relic of the past.
 
Love had 2 or 3 sloppy turnovers due to poor dribbling… wasn’t all RJ..

Bacot also had 2 or 3 sloppy and very costly bad passes that led to turnovers at end of the game.

Those 3 as a whole costed us the game honestly.. other than terrible 3 point defense
 
Love had 2 or 3 sloppy turnovers due to poor dribbling… wasn’t all RJ..

Bacot also had 2 or 3 sloppy and very costly bad passes that led to turnovers at end of the game.

Those 3 as a whole costed us the game honestly.. other than terrible 3 point defense


Bacot looks to have enjoyed his celebrity tour over the summer too much and forgotten about trying to get better. Or he’s too worried about what kind of crazy hair doo he’s going to wear for a particular game. He’s been bad.
 
If this team reaches it's potentials RJ will have to be the point guard, and leader. Granted others may benefit from it, but it all begins with the point guard. Every player has great potentials, but also some weakness. Love as good as he has been, or will be, point guard is not his portray.
 
One of the problems with this team is we put the ball in the hands of a guy, RJ, who don’t have point guard in his blood. He is a shooter who wants to score . This is why is dribbles so much….he don’t want to pass the ball because he wants to be a scorer. You saw it tonight.

A UNC point guard is a pass first PG. RJ is a look for his shot first PG and it kills the chemistry of the team. Tonight as bad as both our guards played Love had 3 assist 3 turnovers to R J’s 1 assist 2 turnovers.

How in the hell can you have the ball in your hands tgat much and dribble as much as RJ and have 1 damn assist?
It's NOT about being "pass-first", it's about the instinct to move the offense AND the defense with the dribble or the pass, as opposed to pounding the ball aimlessly while other guys stand around or dribbling into trouble without a plan.

Joel Berry was an example of "how to" --- our Guards (yes, plural) are examples of "how not to".

RJ driving to create space for his pull-up is fine. Caleb driving to take it to the rack is fine. The rest is where it goes south.
 
It's NOT about being "pass-first", it's about the instinct to move the offense AND the defense with the dribble or the pass, as opposed to pounding the ball aimlessly while other guys stand around or dribbling into trouble without a plan.

Joel Berry was an example of "how to" --- our Guards (yes, plural) are examples of "how not to".

RJ driving to create space for his pull-up is fine. Caleb driving to take it to the rack is fine. The rest is where it goes south.
Well Gary I’ll say this….at one point last night R J dribbled so much that I actually dozed off…and when I woke back up…he was still dribbling.
 
Well Gary I’ll say this….at one point last night R J dribbled so much that I actually dozed off…and when I woke back up…he was still dribbling.
Everyone understands your proclivity to Love and that's fine. But if you honestly think it begins and ends with him like you attempt to prove, means you know nothing about team basketball, basically the same as your boy. But trashing RJ and glorifying Love is idiotic. Both are hugh keys to success. You pretend Love is adapt to setting up his teammates. It begins on D. And he is constantly looking for his shot as well. He has flaws just like the rest of the team minus Leaky. Leaky is a max potential player each game. He has worked hard to get to that point. And guess what, it begins on D. This team has alot to improve on, and Love isn't the only key
 
Everyone understands your proclivity to Love and that's fine. But if you honestly think it begins and ends with him like you attempt to prove, means you know nothing about team basketball, basically the same as your boy. But trashing RJ and glorifying Love is idiotic. Both are hugh keys to success. You pretend Love is adapt to setting up his teammates. It begins on D. And he is constantly looking for his shot as well. He has flaws just like the rest of the team minus Leaky. Leaky is a max potential player each game. He has worked hard to get to that point. And guess what, it begins on D. This team has alot to improve on, and Love isn't the only key
Caleb Love is the perfect ball player….and Leaky got plenty flaws. Only Love is perfect because Love is beautiful…Love is powerful…and you win with Love….in the beginning their was Love and in the end, there is only Love

So yes it all begins and end with Love!

You must accept Love in your heart and let your little Love light shine!
 
Have always heard that Love can be blind, and if you are in denial it will consume you.😉😉😉😉
 
Caleb Love is the perfect ball player….and Leaky got plenty flaws. Only Love is perfect because Love is beautiful…Love is powerful…and you win with Love….in the beginning their was Love and in the end, there is only Love

So yes it all begins and end with Love!

You must accept Love in your heart and let your little Love light shine!

Caleb needs to play better Mr. / Mrs. Love.
 
yes, he's shoot first pass second, but isn't everybody nowadays? it's pretty much look for your shot and pass if you must. the pass first point guard is a relic of the past.
Trying to be fair here I honestly believe Love might be the only player NOW on this present team that has a real chance to get a shot to play in the NBA because of his offense but in the last two games he has been less than stellar playing defense…

In both games the announcers have spoken highly of his offensive ability but like myself they saw and observed he was getting abused way too many times and was often out of position.

Game film will not lie and it will clearly show what went wrong in his man toasting him all evening but it will be used also as a teaching tool and I expect him to be really focused against Alabama and look like a whole different player..
 
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