Dante Curry

[Guest Ari_Hinkelberger]

When you sit on this board and spout off about how great Howard is it just proves your inability to be objective.  Howard cant score, he is slow, he turns the ball over on average about 6-7 times a game, and he is zero threat to penetrate.

Its great that we finally have a point guard who can distribute the basketball.

WOW -- fly me to the freakin moon.

Maybe expectations are so low around here after a full year of Capko -- a guy who has zero business being on the court in the Big East.

I don't know what game you are watching when you say you have missed only three games, but howard has been more then dissappointing.

Bozemans offensive numbers since big east play began have been dumpster low.

This team needs a guard.

If a new coach comes in Howard better improve, or the guy is going to go out and find himself a guard to play the point.

If howad thinks he is going to be a Big East point guard by having 8 assits, 5 points and 5 turnovers a game -- he is as lost as you.

Those are not good stats.

Its great he leads the league in assists.

Who cares.  

[smazza]

Verdejo is far from aweful, but I wouldn't expect anything more out of you.

a real superstar

[smazza]

Blame it on whatever you want, but Verdejo has been disappointing to date. We cant afford a player on the floor who doesnt play much defense and doesnt score much either.

we are in the big east

usf needs a full roster of competent prime time players

[Bullpride08]

When you sit on this board and spout off about how great Howard is it just proves your inability to be objective.  Howard cant score, he is slow, he turns the ball over on average about 6-7 times a game, and he is zero threat to penetrate.

Its great that we finally have a point guard who can distribute the basketball.

WOW -- fly me to the freakin moon.

Maybe expectations are so low around here after a full year of Capko -- a guy who has zero business being on the court in the Big East.

I don't know what game you are watching when you say you have missed only three games, but howard has been more then dissappointing.

Bozemans offensive numbers since big east play began have been dumpster low.

This team needs a guard.

If a new coach comes in Howard better improve, or the guy is going to go out and find himself a guard to play the point.

If howad thinks he is going to be a Big East point guard by having 8 assits, 5 points and 5 turnovers a game -- he is as lost as you.

Those are not good stats.

Its great he leads the league in assists.

Who cares.  

Good grief man, Howard has scored in double figures in four games this season.  He's a RS freshman that's working on a tender knee.  You haven't a frickin clue what you are talking about.  Give it up, you don't like how things are working then fine.

[Bullpride08]

Let's try an objective opinion:

Curry, Jones and Holmes are unproven, so let's not create out of this world expectations for these kids.....it's not fair. People did that with Tron and BB. They were talented and productive but people never truly appreciated their abillty b/c of some unreal expectations. They never got better after their sophomore years b/c they never got coached. That wasn't their fault.

Jesus has bought into the team concept. That was his problem at Arizona. I don't blame Mac at all for his lack of development. Pound for pound he probably has the most talent on the team, but it's meaningless if you can't translate it to helping his team win. I would call him a severe dissappointment who could be lost in the shuffle if the young guards show anything.

Curry, Jones, and Holmes are unproven, but they came to us with lots of talent.  Curry was tearing up the practices until his injury, we shall see what happens but no one is putting 'unreal' expectations on them just come in and do what they are capable of doing and they will be fine.  All three were very good outside shooters with the ability to dribble penetrate.  Holmes was ranked higher than Altron coming out of HS, so the expectations are already there whether you like it or not.

Jesus definitely needs to learn to play within this team, and that's his problem right now he's not getting into the flow of this offense and not being assertive enough when the time comes.  CRM has sat him for that very reason.  Put the defense aside because he hasn't been that bad at defense it's the offensive side that we need more from him.  He has scored 20pts for us twice when he first started, but has tappered off considerably as the team slowly molded into the CRM style offense, an offense he needs to get more comfortable playing within.

[flsportsfan83]

wasn't howard a star before the injury?

[flsportsfan83]

Bien if all of our players are so great then why do we only have 3 BE wins?

[CyberBull]

Let's try an objective opinion:

Curry, Jones and Holmes are unproven, so let's not create out of this world expectations for these kids.....it's not fair. People did that with Tron and BB. They were talented and productive but people never truly appreciated their abillty b/c of some unreal expectations. They never got better after their sophomore years b/c they never got coached. That wasn't their fault.

Jesus has bought into the team concept. That was his problem at Arizona. I don't blame Mac at all for his lack of development. Pound for pound he probably has the most talent on the team, but it's meaningless if you can't translate it to helping his team win. I would call him a severe dissappointment who could be lost in the shuffle if the young guards show anything.

Curry, Jones, and Holmes are unproven, but they came to us with lots of talent.  Curry was tearing up the practices until his injury, we shall see what happens but no one is putting 'unreal' expectations on them just come in and do what they are capable of doing and they will be fine.  All three were very good outside shooters with the ability to dribble penetrate.  Holmes was ranked higher than Altron coming out of HS, so the expectations are already there whether you like it or not.

Jesus definitely needs to learn to play within this team, and that's his problem right now he's not getting into the flow of this offense and not being assertive enough when the time comes.  CRM has sat him for that very reason.  Put the defense aside because he hasn't been that bad at defense it's the offensive side that we need more from him.  He has scored 20pts for us twice when he first started, but has tappered off considerably as the team slowly molded into the CRM style offense, an offense he needs to get more comfortable playing within.

We all heard all of this before. Aris Williams and Zeus looked great in practice yet for one reason or another it hasn't clicked. The only transfer player that is playing well is KG. That is the caliber of player we need to recruit to play for USF for FOUR years.

BTW....while Holmes, Curry and Jones are talented they have never been considered "can't miss players". I think we need to be watchful and moderate how much of a difference they are going to make next year....regardless of who is the coach.

USF needs to camp out in front of Scott's door over thenext couple of weeks and hope we can still get him to sign with USF. We also need to find somebody to replace Buckley. While buckley is not great....we have nobody on the roster who replace him. That is the biggest worry.

[tampajo]

Let's try an objective opinion:

Curry, Jones and Holmes are unproven, so let's not create out of this world expectations for these kids.....it's not fair. People did that with Tron and BB. They were talented and productive but people never truly appreciated their abillty b/c of some unreal expectations. They never got better after their sophomore years b/c they never got coached. That wasn't their fault.

Jesus has bought into the team concept. That was his problem at Arizona. I don't blame Mac at all for his lack of development. Pound for pound he probably has the most talent on the team, but it's meaningless if you can't translate it to helping his team win. I would call him a severe dissappointment who could be lost in the shuffle if the young guards show anything.

Curry, Jones, and Holmes are unproven, but they came to us with lots of talent.  Curry was tearing up the practices until his injury, we shall see what happens but no one is putting 'unreal' expectations on them just come in and do what they are capable of doing and they will be fine.  All three were very good outside shooters with the ability to dribble penetrate.  Holmes was ranked higher than Altron coming out of HS, so the expectations are already there whether you like it or not.

Jesus definitely needs to learn to play within this team, and that's his problem right now he's not getting into the flow of this offense and not being assertive enough when the time comes.  CRM has sat him for that very reason.  Put the defense aside because he hasn't been that bad at defense it's the offensive side that we need more from him.  He has scored 20pts for us twice when he first started, but has tappered off considerably as the team slowly molded into the CRM style offense, an offense he needs to get more comfortable playing within.

We all heard all of this before. Aris Williams and Zeus looked great in practice yet for one reason or another it hasn't clicked. The only transfer player that is playing well is KG. That is the caliber of player we need to recruit to play for USF for FOUR years.

BTW....while Holmes, Curry and Jones are talented they have never been considered "can't miss players". I think we need to be watchful and moderate how much of a difference they are going to make next year....regardless of who is the coach.

USF needs to camp out in front of Scott's door over thenext couple of weeks and hope we can still get him to sign with USF. We also need to find somebody to replace Buckley. While buckley is not great....we have nobody on the roster who replace him. That is the biggest worry.

Well said, if any new guys are like Grandsberry, we're great; if they're like  Verdejo, we're so so; if they're like Aris, we're f'd.  Bozeman, though with potential, has really only produced versus early schedule competition.  Despite Steve Auerbach's analysis, seems to me the problem is he's 6'0, and that's just too small to play 2 in major Div 1 ball.  AND, if as Steve Riley says, his shot is so slow, ummm, maybe aren't those two facts someone maybe should have noticed while they were recruiting him?

[Guest JulmisteForPrez]

I wouldn't go as far as to say Verdejo is awful; but he sure has been dissappointing thus far.

Yep.  I agree.

Awful......probably too strong of a word.

But disappointing & overrated certainly come to mind.

That's what happens when certain fans build a guy up like that trying to convince more rational thinking folks that this program is on the verge of turning the corner.  Verdejo & Gransberry were supposed to make us competitive in the Big East.

Ummmmmmm..........no.  :-/