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Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-06-23T00:04:33-06:00

We are in need of shootinng, consistent shooting.

KC, is not a shooter. Kaufusi, while I am sure will be improved probably won't get us more than 10 pts a night and isn't a guy you can burden the bulk of the offense with. Austin, not much output there offensively either. Davis, perhaps. But that still leaves us without consistent shooting.

Fischer was quite litterally an every other game player last year. Emery is rumored to be a great shooter, but this will be his firstseason of ball in over 2 years. Toolsen, can light it up too but was also inconsistent.

My worry is we will do a 180 from last year. Instead of being weak in the post and strong in shooting, we'll be stronger in the post and weaker from the outside. I suppose if our bigs are collecting boards and our smalls running the court there won't be much need for outside shooting.

Will be a fun year.

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Statistics: Posted by Gunk — Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:04 am

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-06-22T21:34:31-06:00

Cougs played as a 3 guard team much of last year and had a very high-scoring team (2nd in country). The problem is that they didn't have really good rebounders in front court and they were not good on defense. That will change with the hire of LP coach Quincy Lewis. With Davis and Kafusi, they will get the rebounds as will KC. The other two players: Fisher and Emery can light it up from outside. Throw in a Seljas and improved Toolson (who has a nice stroke), and there are lots of opportunities for 3-pointers to be made. This year the front and backcourt players will have to be defended. The team will be much more balanced in where the scoring will occur.

Statistics: Posted by byucougar1 — Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:34 pm

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-06-22T17:29:26-06:00

A zags team in that there is only one real all-star, but enough talent and depth to get the job done night in and night out. Zags pounded us in the conference final with depth at center and the 4. BYU looks like they may actually have the post much more protected this year...

How does that NOT look like a gonzaga team?

Statistics: Posted by BroncoBot — Mon Jun 22, 2015 5:29 pm

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-06-22T17:19:58-06:00

Um, with all due respect, this team does not look like Gonzaga.
Emery is 5'11 or 6'. he wont be playing the 3. In fact i wonder if he may get point duties when KC is getting breathers. Not sure what that does to the line-up.
And i wouldnt be surprized to see Austin and Kaufusi on floor together or swapping off in the starting line-up at 5. But I would agree that the edge will go to Kusfusi, inasmuch as I expect a pretty significant improvement over last year. He is a rim protector. Nate is more of a help-side defender than a rim protector (loosely speaking).

Statistics: Posted by Cougs_Rule — Mon Jun 22, 2015 5:19 pm

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-06-21T11:13:34-06:00

Your list: Mostly agree, would like to see KC be able to move to small forward and it would be nice if someone was pushing for some of Fisher's minutes. Overall a pretty deep team for BYU standards with the clear leader/star being KC. Looks like a Gonzaga team....

Statistics: Posted by BroncoBot — Sun Jun 21, 2015 11:13 am

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-06-17T08:53:33-06:00

Lots of depth on 2015 team and we have rebounding with interior toughness.

First Team:
1 - KC
2 - Fisher
3 - Emery
4 - Davis
5 - Kafusi

Second Team:
1 - Emery
2 - Toolson
3 - Seljas
4 - Aytes
5 - Austin

Third Team:
1 - Calvert
2 - Chapman
3 - Harstock
4 - Shaw
5 - Alan Hamson

Umm 2 things

1. how sure are we that Emery is going to beat all the upperclassmen guards?

Being strong enough is a really important part of NCAA basketball.

2. You really confused me by spelling Chatman (Chapman.)

Finally I see the rotation more like this:

(KC plays Point Forward on offense)

Emery/Calvert
Fischer/Chatman
KC/Toolson(Seligass may beat him out)
Davis/(Aytes,Hartsock or Shaw whichever one emerges)
Kaufusi/Austin

We don't have enough wing depth or big experienced guards to not play KC their.

Statistics: Posted by Qman — Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:53 am

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-06-16T20:05:03-06:00

Lots of depth on 2015 team and we have rebounding with interior toughness.

First Team:
1 - KC
2 - Fisher
3 - Emery
4 - Davis
5 - Kafusi

Second Team:
1 - Emery
2 - Toolson
3 - Seljas
4 - Aytes
5 - Austin

Third Team:
1 - Calvert
2 - Chapman
3 - Harstock
4 - Shaw
5 - Alan Hamson

Statistics: Posted by byucougar1 — Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:05 pm

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-04-13T22:35:23-06:00

Coach Rose indicated today in an interview that Zac Seljaas will enroll in the fall.

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Statistics: Posted by beauso79 — Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:35 pm

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-04-01T21:33:53-06:00

Each to there own, I like Toolson's D in the limited minutes I saw of him and you do know that KC finished #1 in the WCC with 59 steals (Chris Anderson had 58), he now has 155 career steals at BYU (FWIW, Jackson Emery had 148 at the end of his Jr season). Anson finished his career at BYU with 107 steals and he has been one of BYU's better defenders the last couple years. Steals don't determine if you are a good defender or not, Jimmer and Carlino both had a lot of steals at BYU, but those came from playing the passing lanes. Kyle can actually steal the ball away from the player he is defending. I agree and like Bartley's D, but I'm not sure I would say he is any better than Kyle as a defender. But Nate, I've always felt his D was lacking, he gets bullied in the post a lot. Nate is a hard worker, but that does not equal a good defender. In the 2013-14 season Kyle Davis owned Nate Austin in the Utah St game. They went head to head as #4's, here are the stats from that game:
Nate Austin 6' 11" 230: 25 minutes, 2 points (FG 1-2 50.0%), 3 rebounds (2-O, 1-D), 1 assist, 0 blocks, 1 steal, 1 turnover, 0 fouls
vs
Kyle Davis 6' 8" 220: 29 minutes, 16 points (FG 7-11 63.6%, FT 2-2 100%), 9 rebounds (4-O, 5-D), 3 assists, 1 block, 1 steal, 2 turnovers, 2 fouls

Compare 2013-14 season stats, Austin played in the WCC and Davis played in the MWC (which was a stronger conference).
Nate Austin: 35-35 games, 934 minutes (26.7), 132 points (3.8 ), 278 rebounds (7.9; 90-O, 188-D), 32 assists, 31 blocks, 26 steals, 38 turnovers, 119 fouls
vs
Kyle Davis: 29-27 games, 725 minutes (25.0), 263 points (9.1), 221 rebounds (7.6; 89-O, 132-D), 37 assists, 39 blocks, 12 steals, 45 turnovers, 62 fouls

To be clear I think Davis is a better player than Austin and he should start but....what I recall Davis was a good team defender in a established excellent defensive system. Doesn't provide blocks or steals. His value is on the other end of the court.

The things Austin does well on D are help defense, rebounding and playing pick and roll in a man to man defense. He isn't strong enough to be a very good post defender.

Either player would have been a difference maker in our loss to Ole Miss.

Nate Austin 6' 11" 230: 35 games, 934 minutes, 31 blocks
Kyle Davis 6' 8" 220: 29 games, 725 minutes, 39 blocks (he had 31 blocks at Southern Utah)
Remember Kyle Davis played almost the whole season at Utah St with a knee injury, he missed the Pacific game on 12/7/13. The rumor is he (Kyle) thought they (Utah St coaching staff) rushed him back to early and pressured him in playing some games he didn't think he should have played in because of the injury and that's one the main reasons he transferred from Utah St.

I do agree that Nate would have made a difference in the Ole Miss game and still wonder why Isaac didn't play in the game at the 4 just to add some more size in the post.

Statistics: Posted by E-Zone15 — Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:33 pm

Re: NEXT YEAR.

2015-03-31T22:41:18-06:00

Each to there own, I like Toolson's D in the limited minutes I saw of him and you do know that KC finished #1 in the WCC with 59 steals (Chris Anderson had 58), he now has 155 career steals at BYU (FWIW, Jackson Emery had 148 at the end of his Jr season). Anson finished his career at BYU with 107 steals and he has been one of BYU's better defenders the last couple years. Steals don't determine if you are a good defender or not, Jimmer and Carlino both had a lot of steals at BYU, but those came from playing the passing lanes. Kyle can actually steal the ball away from the player he is defending. I agree and like Bartley's D, but I'm not sure I would say he is any better than Kyle as a defender. But Nate, I've always felt his D was lacking, he gets bullied in the post a lot. Nate is a hard worker, but that does not equal a good defender. In the 2013-14 season Kyle Davis owned Nate Austin in the Utah St game. They went head to head as #4's, here are the stats from that game:
Nate Austin 6' 11" 230: 25 minutes, 2 points (FG 1-2 50.0%), 3 rebounds (2-O, 1-D), 1 assist, 0 blocks, 1 steal, 1 turnover, 0 fouls
vs
Kyle Davis 6' 8" 220: 29 minutes, 16 points (FG 7-11 63.6%, FT 2-2 100%), 9 rebounds (4-O, 5-D), 3 assists, 1 block, 1 steal, 2 turnovers, 2 fouls

Compare 2013-14 season stats, Austin played in the WCC and Davis played in the MWC (which was a stronger conference).
Nate Austin: 35-35 games, 934 minutes (26.7), 132 points (3.8 ), 278 rebounds (7.9; 90-O, 188-D), 32 assists, 31 blocks, 26 steals, 38 turnovers, 119 fouls
vs
Kyle Davis: 29-27 games, 725 minutes (25.0), 263 points (9.1), 221 rebounds (7.6; 89-O, 132-D), 37 assists, 39 blocks, 12 steals, 45 turnovers, 62 fouls

To be clear I think Davis is a better player than Austin and he should start but....what I recall Davis was a good team defender in a established excellent defensive system. Doesn't provide blocks or steals. His value is on the other end of the court.

The things Austin does well on D are help defense, rebounding and playing pick and roll in a man to man defense. He isn't strong enough to be a very good post defender.

Either player would have been a difference maker in our loss to Ole Miss.

Statistics: Posted by Qman — Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:41 pm