Wooooooooodard!

[SoonerBounce13]

cousins has to play much better to justify him being the PG ..

I didn't think cousins played bad at all. He had four turnovers but as a team we were a little sloppy for the first game. it will get better

 

[BCSooners]

Cousins had 13 points 6 assists and 2 steals, hardly a bad game. He also moved the ball well, got us in our sets, and took good shots. If you want to get onto him for 4 turnovers go ahead just do the same for Buddy and Spangler.

 

[CoachTalk]

Tough crowd for a tough road game. We didnt open with a d2 school or popcorn st...

6 ast for Cousins, 8 for Woodard... I think both did great.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Tough crowd for a tough road game. We didnt open with a d2 school or popcorn st...

6 ast for Cousins, 8 for Woodard... I think both did great.

I'd take those numbers all day. Doesn't seem to matter who is the true "1".

 

[Section31]

He's average at best

I hope everyone knew I was being sarcastic.

Anyone who watched that game and thought Cousins looks like a serviceable PG just doesn't understand how much a PG does. Cousins is a pure 2 and will NEVER be anything more than a below average PG. Wait till someone actually presses him.

All you needed to know was, when the game was on the line last night, J-Wood was running the point.

 

[BigTime]

I hope everyone knew I was being sarcastic.

Anyone who watched that game and thought Cousins looks like a serviceable PG just doesn't understand how much a PG does. Cousins is a pure 2 and will NEVER be anything more than a below average PG. Wait till someone actually presses him.

All you needed to know was, when the game was on the line last night, J-Wood was running the point.

No offense but you are incredibly biased here being as you are either related to Jordan or heavily involved in his camp. A simple check of your past posts will demonstrate this.

How can you say that Isaiah will NEVER be anything more than below average? It was the first game. Give the man a some time. He hasn't played the point with any regularity in games since the beginning of his sophomore year.

Jordan looked good at the two. I like him catching and attacking on the wing. What is wrong with giving him the ball with the game on the line or under heavy pressure and letting Cousins handle it the rest of the time? Nothing.

This is not an either/or here...

 

[Section31]

No offense but you are incredibly biased here being as you are either related to Jordan or heavily involved in his camp. A simple check of your past posts will demonstrate this.

How can you say that Isaiah will NEVER be anything more than below average? It was the first game. Give the man a some time. He hasn't played the point with any regularity in games since the beginning of his sophomore year.

Jordan looked good at the two. I like him catching and attacking on the wing. What is wrong with giving him the ball with the game on the line or under heavy pressure and letting Cousins handle it the rest of the time? Nothing.

This is not an either/or here...

Not related...not heavily involved with him at all. Not even sure I've ever said "hi" to HIM. I do know the family and am partial to him in that way, but my opinion of JW has ZERO to do with my assessment of Cousins PG skills and vice versa. I'll not comment about it again as I've said my piece. I only care about this team getting the most out of the talent they have and just believe he's not ever going to be a serviceable d1 PG.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Not related...not heavily involved with him at all. Not even sure I've ever said "hi" to HIM. I do know the family and am partial to him in that way, but my opinion of JW has ZERO to do with my assessment of Cousins PG skills and vice versa. I'll not comment about it again as I've said my piece. I only care about this team getting the most out of the talent they have and just believe he's not ever going to be a serviceable d1 PG.

by all means, please pass this on to kruger. This is the kind of information he needs to form this team.

just giving you a hard time. obviously kruger sees an advantage to cousins running the show. He looked good imo

 

[BoulderSooner]

No offense but you are incredibly biased here being as you are either related to Jordan or heavily involved in his camp. A simple check of your past posts will demonstrate this.

How can you say that Isaiah will NEVER be anything more than below average? It was the first game. Give the man a some time. He hasn't played the point with any regularity in games since the beginning of his sophomore year.

Jordan looked good at the two. I like him catching and attacking on the wing. What is wrong with giving him the ball with the game on the line or under heavy pressure and letting Cousins handle it the rest of the time? Nothing.

This is not an either/or here...

Cousins was the back up point in the last 20 OU games last season ..

 

[hoopsaustin]

:facepalm

We will see how kruger handles things but this is one of the most idiotic statements on this board and I really hope my sarcasm meter is just broke.

Cousins did really well last night at the 1. To call him anything but a one is ridiculous and to say we are guaranteed to have a down year if he is our one is even more so.

ha. its ok. some people just dont see the little things that Woodard does i guess.

just wait til anyone presses cousins. youll see in time and so will kruger. hes tried this experiment before...

 

[AdaSooner]

Isaiah's four turnovers aside, if Kruger's "experiment" works as well as it did in last night's game, I'm all for seeing it continue! What difference does it make if we see Woodard or Cousins as a point guard or a two guard? The goal is to win as many games as we can.

Besides, who says teams have to win with a conventional lineup? Some of you may remember Villanova's four guard lineup in 2005 or 2006, if memory serves me right. You should. OU lost to them two years in a row. Yes, at least three of those guards were really special. But that doesn't change the point I'm trying to make.

I said in another post that I'm still not sure if playing Cousins at the point is the right thing to do. But, I'm not going to pretend that I know as much or more about coaching than Lon Kruger. If last night's game can be used as a barometer for what lies ahead for this team, I'd say the experiment is working pretty darned well.

 

[geeoh]

The amazing thing about Kruger is, even as much talent as we return from last year's Sweet 16 team, he's always looking to improve. Kruger obviously sees a long-term benefit to having Cousins run the point even if it means some growing pains early on. Let's remember, the championship is handed out in March/April, not November.

 

[Sooner04]

just wait til anyone presses cousins. youll see in time and so will kruger. hes tried this experiment before...

This is true. We have not run a press of any sort against Cousins this year in practice. Not one. Not a single time. The team is not even allowed to say the word "press" within earshot of Isaiah for fear of anxious damage to his psyche.

 

[garyeb2]

Or, maybe, Cousins could just inbound the ball to Woodard.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Maybe switching from Isiah to Jordan as point guard late in the game is enough of a change that it makes it hard for the defense to adjust.

Maybe if neither one of them plays at the point the whole game, they are both fresher at the end. Playing point guard is perhaps more stressful than playing the 2.

Whatever the reason, it worked well last night.

 

[chuckb]

ha. its ok. some people just dont see the little things that Woodard does i guess.

just wait til anyone presses cousins. youll see in time and so will kruger. hes tried this experiment before...

I hope Kruger reads this thread so can learn what is so obvious to you. Thanks for doing your part to help the team. Without your insight, we would have no chance of reaching the Final 4.

 

[hoopsaustin]

This is true. We have not run a press of any sort against Cousins this year in practice. Not one. Not a single time. The team is not even allowed to say the word "press" within earshot of Isaiah for fear of anxious damage to his psyche.

Clever

 

[hoopsaustin]

I hope Kruger reads this thread so can learn what is so obvious to you. Thanks for doing your part to help the team. Without your insight, we would have no chance of reaching the Final 4.

:ez-laugh:

 

[sperry]

That was Woodard's best game as a Sooner. I've been critical of him in the past, and really hope he has made the leap this year. We need him.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

ha. its ok. some people just dont see the little things that Woodard does i guess.

Has nothing to do it. SOmebody else said it but this isn't a demotion for woodard. It is trying something to make the team better. You weight the pluses and minuses. I'm sure when we play someone that presses, kruger will put the ball in woodards hands

just wait til anyone presses cousins. youll see in time and so will kruger. hes tried this experiment before...

Are you implying that you can see things that kruger and the coaches can't? really?

And he tried this with a freshman cousins right?