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Keyshawn Woods being honored for senior night

RJKarl said:
Craw hasn't had a ridonculous year, but his career will stack up pretty well historically at Wake after next year. If he keeps up the stats of the past three years, he'll be:

Scoring- Top 10 (probably #8 or #9)
Assists - Top 5 (most likely #2 or #3)
Steals - Top 4
3 pointers - Will probably end up #6

But reading these boards, he really sucks...
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Good numbers. Ranking in turnovers?
 
I think Les is trying to talk to Key today... I doubt he'll get any info out of Key that gives us a definite answer either way, but I'm interested to hear his comments.
 
The situation (on the team or personal) has gotta be bad to leave a year of college basketball on the table. I mean these young men have worked for this all their life and love the game right?
 
DeacsATS said:
I think Les is trying to talk to Key today... I doubt he'll get any info out of Key that gives us a definite answer either way, but I'm interested to hear his comments.
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Well if he plans to come back it should be pretty easy to say so. If he's leaving, or considering leaving, then you can expect some evasiveness.

OTOH, he could just lie and say he's coming back and then announce his transfer two weeks from now.
 
BiffTannen said:
Well if he plans to come back it should be pretty easy to say so. If he's leaving, or considering leaving, then you can expect some evasiveness.

OTOH, he could just lie and say he's coming back and then announce his transfer two weeks from now.
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Exactly. He could easily say he's coming back and then transfer later on. So nothing he says will convince me he is staying... But it wouldn't take much for me to think he's leaving.
 
But why would he leave if he has a chance to be on a borderline preseason Top-25 team ?
 
Good article today in our WS Journal by our writer, Conor O'Neill about our "fluid" roster. It certainly took a beating last summer when Dinos left in June so who is to say? He talked about the prospect of Crawford & Moore with pro prospects, plus Woods having the automatic Senior Day. But I think Woods will be back myself.
 
I think Key is a wash and when he's hitting threes is a decent player. He's just really bad on defense. Breaking news I know, but damn he's bad.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
I think Key is a wash and when he's hitting threes is a decent player. He's just really bad on defense. Breaking news I know, but damn he's bad.
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To be fair, the guy has been playing on 1 and a half legs since the first Syracuse game which was Jan 3.
 
No way we get a better grad transfer than Woods.

By the way, if he leaves we would be 0-3 on basketball players named Woods finishing their eligibility at Wake. The other two were much better at their next stop.
 
Woods is our best over-all shooter period, not just 3s but baseline jumpers, floaters in the lane...he is our best shooter. Now defense is another matter.
 
For years Wake was plagued by small guards. Justin Grey at the 2, etc. Now we're plagued with awful defensive guards. Woods is clearly an asset overall, but his defense when teamed with Crawford is painful to watch. Crawford gets so far out of position and doesn't seem to understand that he has to rotate. Woods is slow when healthy. Chill is slow and undersized, but at least plays hard on defense. Wilbiken may be the least athletic 2 guard in the nation.
 
Deac1244 said:
To be fair, the guy has been playing on 1 and a half legs since the first Syracuse game which was Jan 3.
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Sure but he's been awful at defense since he got here. A lot of it is seemingly effort. There are countless times where the ball is on the opposite side of the court that he's just standing still sagging off his man and doesn't move until well after his guy left him.
 
I think we'll miss Keyshawn a lot more than people tend to think. If anything, I think he should be taking at least 1 or 2 shots more per game instead of Crawford. Considering he shoots at a much more efficient clip, it seems kinda strange that we put so much emphasis on the PnR with Craw & Chill who shoot it much worse than our spot up guys. We should be running myriad double screens, baseline screens etc to free up Key, Wilby and using Mitchell more like a Ricky Peral type to set said screens, and then pop into the corner or the wing.

Alas, the lack of size in the back court is probably our biggest issue, not only on defense, but also on offense in terms of getting shots off. But, injury aside, it makes even less sense to have not been featuring Key more in the offense earlier in the season. Some will probably argue that his poor start shooting the ball hampered his confidence, but I'd argue Danny's inability to implement a zone and hide some of our deficiencies was a greater detriment in the early going. That and not using Chaundee enough and correctly (think his first game against GSU easily showed what he was capable of in terms of multi-dimensional scoring).
 
But next year we will be bigger at guard with Chaundee moving to SG and adding Wright and Lewis.

We were also grossly undersized by playing Key and even Craw or Wilbekin at SF.
 
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