"I dont see Mussini contributing down the road. Maybe im wrong Mase.
Freudenberg could be something. But i think hes a project. Not expecting a lot right away."
Think that Mussini will be a pleasant surprise next season playing with Lovett/Ponds. Should get the ball where he can just catch and shoot. I expect his 3 pt. percentage to top 40 next season. Also think that Freudenberg, if spotted effectively, will be a solid outside threat. This team is going to need some drop dead shooters to implement CM's preferred style. Right now, Mussini and Freudenberg are our best options to fill that role.
This is the season for Mussini. He played out of position and too many minutes last year so hard to judge him fairly. This will be the year we will see what he can be for us. To get back on topic I would be happy to get Simon and Clark with either Kosta or Livingston rounding out the team
Who in the BE can Mussini get by? The problem wasn't that he was playing out of position. It's that he doesn't have a position. He's not a 2 guard either.
I agree Poison. His lack of foot speed and frame are major obstacles for him to be anything more then a mop up guy . He is a man without a position and there is no DH in this sport.
I think you guys are nuts with this Mussini stuff. The kid is an elite shooter and could have hit 40% as a frosh if he took less challenged shot and shots off the dribble. Most decent shooters only shoot between 15-20% on shots off the bounce and only an elite few can come close to 30%. Set shots are a different world. Plus, the kid can get in the lane at a good clip and that should improve with more talent and ball-handling to spread the floor around him.
As for Simon, this is the kind of transfer situation that can turn a program around: highly ranked nasty player that didn't get 5-star minutes do to LOADED backcourt with a top team. Paging Michael Gbinje (1.7 ppg as frosh at Duke). When a kid like this becomes available, you go for it without thinking about your roster.
Settle down. Mussini missed a shit ton of open jumpers. He's got a lot of work to do, but he's not a starter at the BE level. I'm hoping for 12-15 minutes a game. He should be used like Max Hooper was. If he wants to get more time than that, he had better come back prepared.
Every player does, but you are exaggerating his misses in a big way and not giving him credit for the degree of difficulty he had to take with most of his shots, with no scoring or ball-handling around him. It doesn't usually end well when freshmen average 6 treys a game. Only teams with elite ball movement and multiple scorin options could get a shooter 6 open, set shots a game. We weren't that team and he was on the ball most of the year to make it harder.
He shot over 86% from the ft line as a frosh--which has to be close to a record.
Mussini was great from the line. No one can deny that. We gave a freshman with limited ball handling ability and defensive ability the task of running a team full of injury prone, lazy and flat out bad basketball players and asked him to run that offense. It certainly wasn't fair.
Next season, God willing, we'll have Marcus LoVett running the offense, and Shamorie Ponds spelling him when needed, followed by the occasional and hopefully rare site of Ellison running the point. Here's what needs to be figured out regarding Mussini: If Mullin starts LoVett, Ponds, Ahmed, Yakwe and Sima like many of us expect him to, when Mussini comes into the game, what position will he be playing?