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The official LOL Harry Giles thread

for years now highly rated big men consistently disappoint at duke, an uber perimeter oriented team and offense... and he's currently being coached by jeff capel.

Capel did happen to coach Blake Griffin.
 
Giles is actually having a pretty decent ACC season. He's a really, really good rebounder in his 38% minutes, and has also been decent around the rim. It's not the best fit because he is effectively playing the 5 right now in a lot of lineups.

He isn't meeting expectations, but am guessing he will continue to improve as the year goes along. He's still getting his legs underneath him from his injuries.
 
Capel did happen to coach Blake Griffin.

good point. still it's one thing to turn down the big man tutelage of Danny Manning to play for one of the most successful coaches in CBB history and another to do it to play 12 minutes a game for Jeff Capel.

Giles is actually having a pretty decent ACC season. He's a really, really good rebounder in his 38% minutes, and has also been decent around the rim. It's not the best fit because he is effectively playing the 5 right now in a lot of lineups.

He isn't meeting expectations, but am guessing he will continue to improve as the year goes along. He's still getting his legs underneath him from his injuries.

he's also terribad on defense, the main reason he can't get minutes. he has zero of the offense run through him so he's just a glorified garbage man.
 
good point. still it's one thing to turn down the big man tutelage of Danny Manning to play for one of the most successful coaches in CBB history and another to do it to play 12 minutes a game for Jeff Capel.



he's also terribad on defense, the main reason he can't get minutes. he has zero of the offense run through him so he's just a glorified garbage man.

Yeah that makes a lot of sense.
 
Yeah, like 90% of Giles' buckets are from great set-ups from teammates and putbacks. He's rarely creating offense on his own. His PnR defense is terribad. Bolden is the better option at this point.
 
he's also terribad on defense, the main reason he can't get minutes. he has zero of the offense run through him so he's just a glorified garbage man.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. It's like a talented rookie running back who doesn't get on the field because he's playing in a pass happy offense and he doesn't know how to block for the quarterback.
 
Giles has talent and has shown flashes. He is slowly recovering from injury. He gets a week off to rest and prepare for Wake. We have been making fun of him here. Duke is going to be out for blood against Wake after losing to State. Ergo: Giles will blow up against us. Thanks guys.
 
Honestly, it would have been more wake forest, whatever that means, for us to pick up the hometown hero McDonald's AA and have him suck.
 
Honestly, it would have been more wake forest, whatever that means, for us to pick up the hometown hero McDonald's AA and have him suck.

no, wake forest is the hometown McD's AA being awesome but losing in excruciating fashion in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament before he goes pro and gets a gold medal in the Olympics playing for a rival HC and eventually steers another hometown McD's AA to said rival.

eta: i was looking at past kenpom wake ranked offenses since we're 13th right now and somehow didn't realize we were #1 both years of CP3. damn he was good.
 
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Giles is actually having a pretty decent ACC season. He's a really, really good rebounder in his 38% minutes, and has also been decent around the rim. It's not the best fit because he is effectively playing the 5 right now in a lot of lineups.

Oh, and by the way, he isn't meeting expectations.

FIFY
 
Giles has talent and has shown flashes. He is slowly recovering from injury. He gets a week off to rest and prepare for Wake. We have been making fun of him here. Duke is going to be out for blood against Wake after losing to State. Ergo: Giles will blow up against us. Thanks guys.

You have it backwards. The guys on our team who played pickup with him, participated in courting him the past few years, and who were let down when he chose duke haven't forgotten.

We're out for blood.
 
You have it backwards. The guys on our team who played pickup with him, participated in courting him the past few years, and who were let down when he chose duke haven't forgotten.

We're out for blood.

Nailed it. I'm pretty sure Collins might be questioning the 2 star ranking discrepancy between he and Harry.

Duke is going to have to shoot lights out to beat us on Saturday.
 
Nailed it. I'm pretty sure Collins might be questioning the 2 star ranking discrepancy between he and Harry.

Duke is going to have to shoot lights out to beat us on Saturday.

Collins has no business questioning his ranking versus Harry. When Collins was a senior in HS and Harry was a junior, it could be argued that Harry was the best player in HS regardless of year. Maybe Simmons could be argued but no one else.

John was likely underrated in HS due to being a late bloomer but be serious.
 
Honestly, it would have been more wake forest, whatever that means, for us to pick up the hometown hero McDonald's AA and have him suck.

Yeah, there would have been non-stop "we are the most snake-bitten school in the country!", even though this sort of thing happens to plenty of schools each year; even Duke. Of course, even a snake-bitten Duke team may still make the sweet 16.
 
Let's just kick his candy ass up and down the floor for the projected 12 minutes he is supposed to play
 
Harry is learning the hard way that all that glitters isn't gold.

Capel promised him the keys to a Ferrari but gave him the spares to a Toyota instead.

Danny Manning wouldn't make promises to Harry that he wasn't sure could be kept. Harry has a lot to learn and all Danny could promise him was coaching and guidance.

Now this dook team full of egos is in a tailspin and the Giles feel like Harry isn't getting what he was promised.


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