EdMonix11
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The 3 players you mentioned shot a combined 37-87 (42.5%) against Indiana.
So you're cherry picking what you believe to be his worst games, against the best opponents and that still amounted to a below average offensive output?
His offense won't translate? It was predicated on finishing at the rim and hitting open jumpshots. So elite athleticism, with a knack for finishing in traffic and catching on the wing and shooting aren't translatable skills?
I am absolutely in the camp that his offense will be a work in progress but it won't nearly be the eyesore many are making it out to be.
Who else with any sort of NBA aspirations did he play against?
Oh Gary Harris at MSU and he torched him too. Brandon Paul even had some success at Illinois. He's currently not an elite NBA defender.
His offense was fucking spoon fed to him at IU and nobody can deny that. Those opportunities won't be available for him in the NBA; he needs to be able to create offense as a guard but he can't. IU tried developing those skills and he wasn't able to do it. He's reliant upon someone else getting him the ball and thats a real issue. Sure he's going to hit a few open shots in the NBA but those are few and far between.