deacfan123
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Walton having 4 rebounds is mind blowing. He is an absolutely horrendous rebounder. Playing 30+ minutes there is 0 reason he shouldn't have 10+ every game.
I feel exactly the opposite. When we leave an offensive player on the same side with our bigs, particularly Dallas who is both slow to develop a shot and lanky/rangy when he does, it's way too easy for a defender to cheat down and get a hand in while still having time to return to contest a 3. When you rotate to through the help has too far to come. We got a great critical 3 from Daivien when his man tried to disrupt Walton on a post up coming from the top of the key and another from Alondes I think. Walton was 2nd in assists for us. We simply don't have a post guy that can operate quickly in traffic right now, if we don't clear out Walton gets it ripped like 50% of the time.
Really loved the Forbes presser after. Made a great point about how the timeout would have meant zone to close out regulation, 100% agree that Alondes against man is a better scenario, he just missed it.
I find some of the criticism odd here. Mucius went for 12/5/2 and only one Northwestern player outscored him. Clearly still finding his way on a team with actual talent but we'll take that every night from him. And Dallas had to play 33 minutes for us to even have chance in this one with Sy in meltdown mode. Not sure if folks are expecting him to turn into something he's not or just hate that 3 he took, but he hit some shots, got some blocks, was extremely disruptive all night on defense... Nance and Young average 30 a game combined, only had 20 despite Nance getting hot at the end.
Good win against a solid team. Critical to get this one before a really tough road game Saturday.
Mucius isn’t a reliable playmaker. He’s a streaky catch and shoot. That’s about it. He should be a better rebounder.
more similar to james johnson, imo.
put me in the pro-walton camp. his defense is good and if he's truly a ~35% 3-point shooter, i want him to continue jacking them up with confidence when open; thinking back i think NW was really sagging into the paint during the end of the game which impacted our ability to finish in the lane (but gave us some open 3s)
Mucius isn’t a reliable playmaker. He’s a streaky catch and shoot. That’s about it. He should be a better rebounder.
Such a confounding player. He has ideal size for a power conference wing. He has a nice stroke. He is a high effort guy, and likeable but it just seems like the game doesn't come naturally to him. He's often money when games start or when WF is hopelessly behind, but when the game is on the line, he disappears or forces a shot that is not in his arsenal. It helps when WF jumps out to 12-5 lead because Mucius drains early threes, but you would think that his production would go beyond that role at this point.
But I much prefer that over him trying to create. Zero turnovers last night. Decent rebounding and defense. That'll work.
He has the size to be more than what he is... But I don't see that happening at this point in his college career.
Wow I’m genuinely perplexed by this. He’s soft with the ball, got bullied down low and offers very little in terms of post offense.
Realize that WF has stepped up the competition recently, but Cam Hildreth had 4 double figure games over WF's first five games of the season, over the last 3 games Hildreth has scored a total of 5 points, including going scoreless over the last two with 6 TOs in 20 minutes.