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Second Best Scorer Rides the Pine all Year

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rls321321

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Yes, i know Matta loves defense. The second best option
offensively is the guy Matta refuses to develop. I can't imagine in my wildest dreams that a kid with LaQuinton Ross's
talent will not transfer after this season. He has to know by
now after getting 11, 8 & 3 minutes in the last three games that
Matta is not going to play this kid enough to develop. It's not that hard; just let him play and live with his defense like you did D. Thomas's defense his first year. Shannon Scott has absolutely no jump shot, Craft has no jump and Smith and Thompson are only a little better. You need freakin offense.
Matta's refusal not to develop guys like Ross basically makes no sense.
 
OhioState001;2294592; said:
You obviously know more than a Two-time Final Four coach, 5 time Big Ten Champion that watches Ross everyday.
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The best of coaches are still human and make mistakes; I'm a huge fan and supporter of Matta but I do agree with the OP that due to the complete inability to have a second option our offense is painful to watch at times. It'd be great to take some pressure off of Thomas and Ross is the only one that could do that. I with Lenzelle would be more aggressive but that's just not going to happen.

The good news/hope is that there is still enough time for Ross to try to earn his way back into the good graces of coach by his work/focus off the court.
 
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bigdog3300;2294593; said:
The best of coaches are still human and make mistakes; I'm a huge fan and supporter of Matta but I do agree with the OP that due to the complete inability to have a second option our offense is painful to watch at times. It'd be great to take some pressure off of Thomas and Ross is the only one that could do that. I with Lenzelle would be more aggressive but that's just not going to happen.

The good news/hope is that there is still enough time for Ross to try to earn his way back into the good graces of coach by his work/focus off the court.
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The only problem though is that they are both similar players, and he is not better than DT. I guess you could toy with them being on the court together in certain packages, but our problem is that we have nobody to play inside and no guards who can penetrate at will.
 
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rls321321;2294591; said:
Yes, i know Matta loves defense. The second best option
offensively is the guy Matta refuses to develop. I can't imagine in my wildest dreams that a kid with LaQuinton Ross's
talent will not transfer after this season. He has to know by
now after getting 11, 8 & 3 minutes in the last three games that
Matta is not going to play this kid enough to develop. It's not that hard; just let him play and live with his defense like you did D. Thomas's defense his first year. Shannon Scott has absolutely no jump shot, Craft has no jump and Smith and Thompson are only a little better. You need freakin offense.
Matta's refusal not to develop guys like Ross basically makes no sense.
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It took you 4 1/2 years since joining to make your first post and you come up with this?
 
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Ok - then Craft and Scott will be sitting next game next to Ross......using your logic. Scott made a huge mistake late in crunch time.

Matta really needs get Ross in there to develop during game time . Our shooting is THAT ad.


OhioState001;2294595; said:
Last time we played Ross in a tight game he made some major mistakes.
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DaveyBoy;2294602; said:
Ok - then Craft and Scott will be sitting next game next to Ross......using your logic. Scott made a huge mistake late in crunch time.

Matta really needs get Ross in there to develop during game time . Our shooting is THAT ad.
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As someone else said earlier I'll defer to the head coach and his staff who see the player every day in practice over the view you've formed watching games.
 
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fair enough....you think whatever Thad does is perfection and I say he's less than perfect but still great. Your position is extreme....mine is less extreme.

Thad has a problem this year with scoring. It cost us the Duke game and the Kansas game as we went on long droughts. It almost cost us the Michigan game. <let's call the Illinois game for what it was....just a bad game all the way around>.

Thad's methods are shown to get us as far as our talent gets us but no further and sometimes not as far. OSU is losing its last games of the year due to getting cold at the wrong time. We're heading down that same path this year. We need any extra scoring threat we can get because great defensive teams like KU will figure out how to slow down or even stop Deshaun.

Not playing Ross has benefits on the defensive side.....for now
Not playing Ross has detriments on the offensive side
Not playing Ross this year will hurt his development for next year
Not playing Ross means we are playing others that are detriments on O

Bill Lucas;2294606; said:
As someone else said earlier I'll defer to the head coach and his staff who see the player every day in practice over the view you've formed watching games.
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MililaniBuckeye;2294600; said:
It took you 4 1/2 years since joining to make your first post and you come up with this?
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Yes i usually post on boards where the posters really know BB.
Hopefully I won't be slumming much longer.
and if you don't understand that the team needs much more offense
and that person is on the bench, then you need some knowledge.
 
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DaveyBoy;2294602; said:
Ok - then Craft and Scott will be sitting next game next to Ross......using your logic. Scott made a huge mistake late in crunch time.

Matta really needs get Ross in there to develop during game time . Our shooting is THAT ad.
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Davey Boy is in my corner and understands BB
 
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OhioState001;2294592; said:
You obviously know more than a Two-time Final Four coach, 5 time Big Ten Champion that watches Ross everyday.
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I am trying to get L. Ross's email so i can tell him to transfer. Matta will never play him. I want to to see this huge talent on thr floor where he belongs
 
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