StatGeek
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Are you conventiently ignoring that I said a top 25 team? I'd settle for top 35 or so (essentially favored in your first round tourney game), but it's hard to distinguish the ratings at YE. I simply looked at Soonerstats.com to see whether we were ranked in the top 25 at YE. The years I listed, we were. Like I said though, any year we met the other criteria, and were given a 1-8 seed probably works as well. Don't think that changes anything. I wouldn't really call a team that gets a 12 seed a "good" team, by OU's standards. That is pretty average.
If he is replacing a player that guarded the 2, then yes, on that team he'd have to guard the 2. Why don't you grasp that? And while I agree that defense has alot to do with technique and "want to", if you don't have the foot speed, ie, the lateral quickness, to guard a guy, you don't. Cade is fine.....actually, Cade is REALLY good at defending players that can't use their quickness to get by him.
Compare Ere's jr year to Cade's. Ere was just getting used to D1, and coming to a new team. Cade has been D1 for 3 years, and been in the same program. Ere shoots it better from 2. They are nearly the same from 3 and the FT line. Ere rebounded better on a good rebounding team. Ere scored it better on a team with more scorers. Ere averaged nearly twice as many assists. Now, I'd agree that Cade probably defends better. This is one of those situations where stats don't tell the entire story. Ere was the 3rd best player, offensively at least, on a Final Four team. Cade is currently the 5th best offensive player on a team that has played rather poorly.
I like what Cade does as far as hustle and toughness, but don't you think Kelvin would have had him taking minutes from Detrick, rather than Ere? I certainly do. In the last 11 games, Cade has had nearly as many <5 point games (4) as double digit games (5). And those numbers are sure to decrease even more once Willie is at full strength.
Pay close attention: I NEVER said Cade would start over Ere, go back and look it was never said. Again this is dishonest on your part. If you look at production a case could be made. I will say it again, I WOULD NEVER START CADE DAVIS OVER ERE! Please grasp my position.
Goldbold was not a pure 2, detrick wasn't a 2, Ere wasn't a 2.
Davis is as good if not better defender than: Neal, J Williams, K Newton, E. Martin, Allison, Curry. If these are the 2's you want him to 'replace'.
Essentially, you are arguing that Cade wouldn't have started on our final four and elite eight teams.
This idea that Cade is better if he has better players around him is asinine. What player isn't better when he is surrounded by better players?
You are completely fixated on defending the 2 what about the ability to defend the 2 & the 3? J Williams might have been better vs smaller players but Davis is a better defender against bigger players, right? WWIII is the 2 on the current roster right?
Please refrain from making ignorant comments about me being happy because Cade will probably start next year due to coach Capel's "mistakes". I could care less if Cade starts, I want the best players on the floor and if Davis isn't one of them he should sit.
The whole point is that your "thoughts" are uninformed, over regulated, non-sense. A player of Davis's ilk can absolutely 100% be a starter on a good team period.
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