Bennett and Withers seem to click much better together than mitch, in short bennett has a basketball IQ higher than mitch and can shoot.
Lewis should play 10min a game and mitch 15-20
Bennett and Withers seem to click much better together than mitch, in short bennett has a basketball IQ higher than mitch and can shoot.Lewis should play 10min a game and mitch 15-20
I agree. When Mitch fed Withers in the post, Withers was doubled by Mitchās defender and Mitch was not even close to being respected for his shot. Bennett would instantly prevent that type of double team and stretch the defense.
I agree, even though Mitch is a nice guy and can be at times a good player, he poses no offensive potential. Mitch NEVER drives anymore, and he always sets up the offense in a lackluster type of way. I mean no motion is going and his assist come off of people making shots and plays on their on.
Yea Mitch doesnāt turn it over that much, but he doesnāt do much offensively and can seem lost defensively. I say start Bennett and Lee and get Lewis anywhere from 5-10 minutes a game.
Mitch should take note from Lewisā play earlier. Drive and if the defense collapses then kick for an open shot or a open layup. If they donāt collapse then take it to the hole.
Easy logic but Mitch acts like heās scared to make a move. (Like heās going to mess up or something).
Also Bennett showed he could pass too. He threw a no look to Withers I think and he cut to the basket when Curt was doubled for an easy layup. Nice guard play out of Bennett.
mitch has 8 assists today and 1 turnover guys seriously stop complaining about him. he is doing the job that he is supposed to do.
Yea I know he may have had that, but how many of those were when Marcus hit a 3. Did Mitch ever penetrate and dish or make a great pass for at least half of those assist? I think not.
Letās just say that I think Mitch has looked uninterested in games this year. He seems afraid to go to the hole. I keep hoping every game he would prove me wrong. That he would constantly drive or shoot when hes wide open. But of course he doesnāt do this.
Iām just saying that the 1 min Jerell played, he had a nice assist and I think it was when the shot clock was winding down. He looked his defender in the eye, drove to the hole and then dished to I think Courtney Williams for a wide open mid-range jumper.
Iām not advocating for Jerell to start over Mitch, but I am saying that he should get more minutes. 5-10 a game.
Marcus should also get more minutes. The past couple of games Marcus proved he could knock down the open shot.
I think I would much rather take this line
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
11 Bennett, Marcusā¦ 8-11 7-10 6-6 0 0 0 0 29 2 1 0 2 25
Over this line,
20 Baldwin, Mitchellā¦ g 1-4 0-1 2-2 0 2 2 1 4 8 1 0 0 28
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Mitch also looked like he would get lazy on following his man on D.
Iām not here to degrade Mitch, just to make a point that just because Mitch is a senior and has been here 5 years doesnāt mean he should get a free pass to start and play a ton of minutes if he isnāt producing as much or better than other guys on the bench.
I hope Mitch realizes this and plays with a little more intensity.
Thatās what iāve been saying for months! The only shot we have to make the run we need is for Mitch to be on the bench,maybe play him 15 mins. He is a total non-threat to shoot,so the other team just lays on Curtis. Did anyone notice that every run we had yesterday,as well as just about every other game,was when Mitch was on the bench. And please Daxified,enough with the assist/t.o. ratio. All his assists were just passes to guys on the rim who hit 3-pointers.I donāt want to bash Mitchā¦iām sure heās a nice guyā¦but,to the point of the poster who talked about that heās been here 5 years and deserves p.t. how about Bennett whoās only getting 1 year of p.t.,the guys been thru so much,never complains,and goes out and comes up huge again. I know Marcus has his faults,heās not very quick on D,ā¦but tell me one way that the team is better with Mitchell in the game? Lutz needs to just put the BEST guys out thereā¦give us a shot to win!
The answer to Mitch not playing isnāt Marcus Bennett. Bennett isnāt a point guard
Ruckus, the idea would be to slide Lee over to the point and play Bennett at the two. I donāt know if itāll work though.
Mitchell is the Neil OāDonnell of college basketball.
Yes, just looking at the stats of the A10 teams, we are dominate in 3 areas:
- rebounds
- 3 point shooting (# and percentage)
- turnovers ( ie., we donāt have many)
that is why we are winning in conference, and that is why you will keep seeing coach play with our experienced pg, lack of turnovers is really helping us. Also coach does not deviate much from his starting/playing lineup we have all see that thru the years.
Do these people who keep talking about assist to turnover and lack of turnovers watch the actual games, or just read the box scores?
Of course he doesnāt turn the ball over much, heās making two-handed chest passes to jump shooters out on the wing! Dollars to donuts 75% of his assists this year have come on jump shots. Those shouldnāt even count as assists in my book!
Iām fat and old-ish, and even I could have 8 assists and no turnovers if I just brought the ball up and passed it around the top of the circle, without dribble penetrating or cutting to the hole.
He is not freakinā Steve Nash making creative passes that get people open who didnāt know they were open. Heās hitting guys who just rise up over their defender, and poof drop one in the āAā column for #20.
Seriously, to end this debate once and for all, it would be worth it to have someone sit down, watch a few of our games this year, and chart the assists.
Is his low turnover number a positive? Yes.
Could someone else do an equally good job? Maybe, maybe not.
Could another PG come in and maybe turn it over 1-2 more times per game, BUT at the same time draw defenders with a better outside shot and the threat of actually driving the lane? Undoubtedly.
Totally agreeā¦itās not hard to have very few turnovers when you never drive the hoop,and just stand at the top of the circle and let the clock run down. And of course I wasnāt advocating Bennett at pgā¦move Lee over,heās got 10 times more energy than Mitch,drivesā¦can hit 3ā2 and even plays defense aggressively.Sure heāll turn it over a few times,but with him and Bennett we have an inside out game which will help free up Curtis. Can anyone honestly say at this point that we wouldnāt be better with Lee and Marcus in the backcourt?
[QUOTE=lucky57;155546].but,to the point of the poster who talked about that heās been here 5 years and deserves p.t. how about Bennett whoās only getting 1 year of p.t.,the guys been thru so much,never complains,and goes out and comes up huge again.[/QUOTE]
Did you even read my post??? Because if you did it doesnāt look like it.
Let me quote what I said.
[Quote]Iām not here to degrade Mitch, just to make a point that just because Mitch is a senior and has been here 5 years doesnāt mean he should get a free pass to start and play a ton of minutes if he isnāt producing as much or better than other guys on the bench.[/Quote]
I bolded the part you should re-read. My whole post was about how Mitch gets his assist/to ratio from 3pt shooters mainly knocking down jumpers. And how Marcus deserves more pt over him because he is actually producing and knows when to cut, make a good shot, and make a good pass.
Thanks, but next time I think you should actually read my post before you say I said something I didnāt.
Iām surprised with the length of the thread that this hasnāt been mentioned yetā¦ butā¦ Mitch was actually pretty good, and showed some damn good promiseā¦ and then he seperated his shoulder. Heās not even a shadow of his former self. That injury did something to the boys head, and hasnāt been the same since. If I could have the old Mitch run our pointā¦ sign me up. But since that isnāt an option, dropping his minutes in non-critical times to give more time to groom someone else seems like a good idea.
To groom someone else???
Yea maybe Jerell Lewis, but what many people on this thread are advocating including me is to bump up Marcus Bennettās minutes and reduce Mitchās (maybe even start Bennett).
Did you see the way he has played the past two games? He has been lightās out. I mean Lee can manage the point and Marcus to SG spot would give us a variety of 4 offensive threats, and if people want to leave Nance open then he showed us he will start driving.
Marcus is a senior as well as Mitch. It doesnāt matter if he is only here for 1 year. It is just unfair to him, because he is playing better than Mitch and should be playing more than Mitch. Critical or Non-critical, I donāt care put Bennett in and get him some big time minutes.
[QUOTE=Anborn;155630]Iām surprised with the length of the thread that this hasnāt been mentioned yetā¦ butā¦ Mitch was actually pretty good, and showed some damn good promiseā¦ and then he seperated his shoulder. Heās not even a shadow of his former self. That injury did something to the boys head, and hasnāt been the same since. If I could have the old Mitch run our pointā¦ sign me up. But since that isnāt an option, dropping his minutes in non-critical times to give more time to groom someone else seems like a good idea.[/QUOTE]
I have been thinking the same thing myself. He hasnāt been the same since his shoulder inury.
I also wonder if knows his basketball days are about finished, is a little burned out, and is looking forward to his new life in the real world.
I think itās too late in the year to start using Lewis as much as some on here advocate. I also wonder how much Bobby has experimented with Lee at the point and Bennett at the 2.
[QUOTE=Ninerballin;155633]Did you see the way he has played the past two games? He has been lightās out. I mean Lee can manage the point and Marcus to SG spot would give us a variety of 4 offensive threats, and if people want to leave Nance open then he showed us he will start driving.[/QUOTE]
āgroomā was a bad choice of words in my postā¦ but the GW at the point, with Bennett at the 2, sounds explosive. I agree with the rest that Baldwin looks less than noteworthy, and Bennett should be getting all the minutes his stamina will let himā¦ My main purpose in the post was to point out that Mitchās lasting psychological effects from his shoulder injury are his downfall, not becuase he doesnāt obtain the skills/speed.
I like Bennett off of the bench. It gives Charlotte a scoring threat off of the bench. I would like to see him get more minutes but just not start.
From Sundays Observer:
"We were supposed to switch off every screen," Charlotte forward Curtis Withers said. "But then I saw (Mitchell Baldwin) run across the paint." The confusion helped Liddell, a 6-foot-6 freshman, get ahead of his defender, and Drejaj hit him with a crosscourt lob to set up an easy layup
This was also two possessions after he coughed the ball up at the three point line to TWO st. louis players.
From Sundays Observer:This was also two possessions after he coughed the ball up at the three point line to TWO st. louis players.
That really pissed me off. He had an open shot but he tried to give the ball back but gave it away insteadā¦
This is what is honestly frustrating about Mitch, I get to the game early and I am watching him DA and Nance all shooting. Mitch is knocking 3 after 3 down! I am like WTF why donāt Mitch do this sh*t in a game. Then I am watching the game and Mitch passes up wide open shots. That just pisses me off to no end.