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Originally Posted by SithCeNtZ
On Timberlake, I went back and looked at his last two years vs power 5 teams. He has 4 games against Pitt, Clemson, Ohio State, and Wake Forest. Not a murderers row of teams but a decent spread of talent. In those contests he shot 20-56 from 2 and 8-27 from 3. Obviously 4 games isn't the biggest sample size, but it's interesting his numbers line up with what has happened so far this year against power 5 teams. If your hypothesis is he's bothered by elite(power 5) athletes, we don't really have any evidence that he's going to figure it out unfortunately.
It's going to be interesting the scouting on guys transitioning from mid major schools to high majors in the coming years and the analytics behind it. Yesufu had really weird splits that suggested he wasn't ready for Kansas and so does Timberlake. Then again I'm sure there are other guys who have worked out with red flags. The data will be fascinating to watch the next few years and the teams that figure it out first will get a big advantage.
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I think Self loved his shooting, and probably thought he could coach him up in other areas.
Unfortunately, some players, like Frankamp, just aren't physically talented enough to guard high level players.
So, unless he just starts shooting the ball great again, he is probably going to be buried at the end of the bench when conference play starts.
We have all known this for two decades now, but if you can't guard and play defense, you won't be getting on the court for Bill Self