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Cam Thomas is a little bit of brains and defensive effort away from being an all star. The difference between he and Herro is mostly maturity and defensive effort. He is probably a top 10-15 scorer in the league, I don't know how that is an insult unless you are guaranteeing that Tre Johnson will be all star. If you find it to be an insult, I think you probably don't know much about Cam Thomas or just have unreasonable expectations. Expectations must be sky high if an efficient 25 PPG is an insult. What would be non insulting expectation, 30 a game? Leading the league in scoring?

Defense is obviously a concern for Tre, but I also wonder about his ability to put pressure on the rim. Is he being restricted a bit due to his conditions at Texas? Honestly, he might be like Herro and be good enough anyways without a ton of rim pressure.
 
tksavis said:
Yeah that was a pretty depressing summary of our young players. Unless we have some lotto luck, we may in for a long and brutal rebuild.
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We are dead last in defense 2x in a row despite having one of the best rim protectors in the league. Pretty much everything sucks on defense outside of Kessler. The vets, the young guys, the coaching. All are complicit.
 
BYU won a game last night against a top 25 team and BYU had 29 turnovers.
College basketball teams were 0-117 in games against top 25 teams when they had 29 turnovers or more.

By the way, i believe that is 7 wins in a row now and 3 were against top 25 teams, 2 of which were on the road.
 
KqWIN said:
Cam Thomas is a little bit of brains and defensive effort away from being an all star. The difference between he and Herro is mostly maturity and defensive effort. He is probably a top 10-15 scorer in the league, I don't know how that is an insult unless you are guaranteeing that Tre Johnson will be all star. If you find it to be an insult, I think you probably don't know much about Cam Thomas or just have unreasonable expectations. Expectations must be sky high if an efficient 25 PPG is an insult. What would be non insulting expectation, 30 a game? Leading the league in scoring?

Defense is obviously a concern for Tre, but I also wonder about his ability to put pressure on the rim. Is he being restricted a bit due to his conditions at Texas? Honestly, he might be like Herro and be good enough anyways without a ton of rim pressure.
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Cam is a bulky slasher who draws contact and gets to the line at will.

Tre is more of a tough shot maker who doesnt always look for contact but shoots over his defender, like a Devin Booker.

About 30 lbs in muscle separating between the two.
 
jom2003 said:
Cam is a bulky slasher who draws contact and gets to the line at will.

Tre is more of a tough shot maker who doesnt always look for contact but shoots over his defender, like a Devin Booker.

About 30 lbs in muscle separating between the two.
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20 lbs
 
I think Tre's role and role models will be like Devin Booker and Klay Thompson. He has a path to being a significant quick-release shooter. His ball movement and defense really just need to be enough for him to stay on the floor and blend in.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
I think Tre's role and role models will be like Devin Booker and Klay Thompson. He has a path to being a significant quick-release shooter. His ball movement and defense really just need to be enough for him to stay on the floor and blend in.
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Booker and Klay are two different types though. Klay doesn't have the level of shot creation as Book but Book is not half the defender that Klay was in his prime. I think Tre is definitely closer to Book than he is to Klay.
 
jom2003 said:
Yeah give or take. The bottom line is Tre needs to get stronger. Even book is like 20lbs more than him and has grown to 6’7 or 6’8 to get to the star status that he is now.
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The only data we have says 20. But we can just rely on your eye test that called Johnson undersized.
 
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