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Originally Posted by farmerchief
Exactly! For Traylor to be out there instead of Diallo or Bragg, is really confusing. They both need minutes if they are going to be of any help in conference play. Traylor has no upside, he is what he is, but the two freshmen, they both have high ceilings, IMO.
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To be fair, Traylor is really good against the zone. He got lots of looks when we couldn't ****ing shoot last year. He can get the ball at the high post and see the floor well enough to get the ball to the open spot on the low block.
There were some articles about Cliff being really efficient. Traylor gave him a ****TON of looks because Cliff could move well enough to find the soft spot in the zone and dunk.
The rest of the stuff is right. He isn't big or skilled enough to score against man consistently. Has his head up his ass defensively for a few possessions every game. Is good for throwing it into the stands one possession a game.
He defends bigger size better than his size dictates. But it isn't good enough.
He really should be a 4 but isn't better than Ellis or Bragg. He would kick ass as a 3 if he had the skills.
I had really high hopes for him. Dude is an athletic freak. He moves really well for a guy as strong as he is. He can jump out of the gym. He's aggressive and had a lot of potential to be one hell of a matchup problem.
But he didn't ever get the skills to be any more than a post man, where he doesn't have the size to compete.