Ignas Brazdeikis Nike Hoops Summit statistics
Team World had a rare win over Team USA - does not happen often.
Brazdeikis played the 7th most minutes (12) on Team World. He was 5th in points (9), 5th in rebounds (4), and 3rd in assists (3).
Although on the losing team, the most impressive was Bol Bol imo. I have seen a bit of his video feeds, and i was never impressed. In this game against some of the best, he really impressed me. 12 points, 14 boards and 6 blocks. If he can get stronger (and play stronger, not soft) he could be a beast.
If your into efficient basketball, this sucked. Team World shot 41% in the win, USA shot 39%. Amazing athletes though.
and highly sought after. He can shoot, defend and rebound. He's rail thin but has great timing on blocked shots. He's way better than his dad, Maute Bol. It's going to be interesting to see how he'll fare against small ball offense.
Bol can play down in the post or step out to shoot 3s which is essential if you're a big. It will allow Oregon to play 5 out offense if they wanted to.
Geroge Foreman Bol would've been much better.
was my NBA2k my player name when I was 15. It was on the top names list with Dick Boobs, Major Pussy, and Harry Gooch. I was super mature I know
He's obviously a one and done. Don't know how much strength he can put on in 7 months.
Manute Bol had chosen "Super" for his son's first name, but the NFL stepped in and got a restraining order against him.
/s
it's actually a Sudanese tradition to give a first born son a double name.
He had more career blocked shots than points, but he also once hit six three-pointers in a half.
He supposedly killed a lion.
He spent much of his retirement trying to raise money to help his native Sudan. This included becoming licensed as a jockey for publicity purposes.
hitting all those threes in that one half is hilarious.
He also may have popularized the expression "My bad."
Refrigerator Perry for charity.
Counldn't find any pictures of him in the saddle - maybe he never actually rode??? Horse does not seem happy.
Seems like he's rail thin, but also has a bunch of baby fat on him
They've actually won 4 of the last 7 now.
Which is what we should expect from an increasingly global sport. We have like 4% of the world's population. The other 96% should be able to give us a game.
I don't think this is worthy of it's own post, but Ace tweeted out the final updated Rivals basketball rankings and a few of our boys saw some major jumps:
Brandon Johns jumped 8 spots to #57
Colin Castleton jumped 42 spots to #85
David Dejulius jumped 36 spots to #93
Rivals didn't rank Iggy Brazdeikis (because he doesn't play in the US...stupid) but they have called him a 5-star so he'd fall somewhere in the top 30 were he to be ranked.
4 top 100 players and a sniper in Nunez? Yes, please.
are rivals basketball rankings better than their football rankings?
Last assessment I saw said ESPN had the best baskteball rankings. No idea if that is still true. But as always the best is whcihever ranks our guys the highest.
I think Ignas will be great but I think this game showed the need to pump the brakes in terms of this blogs enthusiasm about him being an immediate game changing contributor. Its incredibly rare for a non elite one and done next year in the nba to have a sustainable impact as a true freshman.
Ignas is likely going to be used like Poole was this year which is an offensive spark plug off the bench that isn't consistent enough, especially on defense to be playing massive minutes. He'll show glances of being great and the sophmore year leap but because I don't expect him, Johns or Castleton to be an immediate game changer I see 2020 rather than 2019 as the year we break through. Looking at our offense next year and the amount we will have to rely on true freshman to be shot creators and I'm thinking a top 4 big ten finish with a sweet 16 would be an incredible season with more likely a 4-6 position and round of 32 loss as my prediction.
I'm not sure if you're exaggerating what people are expecting of Iggy or underestimating what freshmen can be expected to contribute, but I think expectations for him are very reasonable. A sixth man type game, providing 25 minutes or so as a flexible wing/SG whose main contribution seems likely to be offensive punch. I don't think anyone is suggesting he'll give us 17 a game, and be first team all big ten. But it seems perfectly reasonable to expect him to replace Robinson's contributions, with potential plus side.
You don't have to be an elite, obvious one-and-done recruit to have an immediate impact. Iggy would certainly be in 247 composite's top 40 if him being Canadian wasn't throwing off the system. And if you look at guys between 20 and 50 (just outside of the obvious one and dones) from last year's rankings, I bet you'll find a lot more guys that contributed more than Poole did last year. There's obviously no guarantee that any of the incoming fresshmen will be solid contributors, but the odds are that a couple of them will be.
is probably optimistic, as I think he'd be more in the 15-20 range, at most. We have returning starters at his two best-fit positions: 3 and 4. Even Poole this year rarely climbed above 15 min in a game.
I agree that he should be a very good offensive player and 6th man off the bench. Don't think he'll play a majority of minutes.
The comprehensive list of freshmen that have played more than 50% of minutes in the last 7 seasons: Walton '14, Stauskas '13, GR3 '13 and Trey Burke '12. None of them even had any competition at their respective spots (except Walton from Spike), let alone from returning starters.
You may be right, may be more like 20. Point I was making was that I don't think anyone was expecting him to come in and have Stauskas/GRIII/THJ levels of playing time and usage. Though, I do think that there is at least a possibility that Iggy or Johns could usurp Livers' role.
I will say that it is reasonable to expect Iggy to be closer to the level of Stauskas/GRIII/THJ as a freshman than say, Zak Irvin. And if so, they may try and figure out a way to get him an extra few minutes here or there through flexible linups. Which, I think our strength at the wings would allow us to do, such as going with some small ball lineups (Johns or Livers at 5) and "big" lineups with Iggy at SG. We certainly won't know exactly how it is going to play out, but given the loss of Wagner, MAAR, and Robinson, there are going to be a good chunk of minutes to be handed out. Poole, Livers, and Teske/Davis won't be able to take all of them.
April 17th, 2018 at 12:29 AM ^
The wildcard is whether we put Livers out there at the 5 in small ball lineups. If we do that to get a shooting 5 on the floor, it could open up more minutes for Iggy at the 4 and would be his path to 20 a game. After what Nova did this year, with M not having a reliable backup 5, and with Livers beefy enough to guard most 5s, I actually wouldn't be that shocked to see us play small ball that way against certain teams.
FWIW, freshman Irvin and freshman Stauskas were very similar players. Lights out Just A Shooters that didn't do much else. Stauskas got twice as many minutes because there was no one else competing for wing spots other than freshman Caris Levert who was 160 lbs wet.
Irvin had to play behind Sophomore Stauskas and Sophomore Levert who were both excellent. Iggy is going to face a bit of that in trying to find minutes. Good problem to have.
Iggy, offensively, could very well be a one and done on another team/environment. Offensively, he is an elite scorer. Hes really, really good.
IMO, what will set him back is defense. He is not the greatest D player and it will take time for him to 'get it' at Michigan, imo, therefore limiting his minutes.
But offensively, the kid is a stud. He has a lot of Jalen Brunson in his game in this burrowing to the basket creating contact thus creating space. Hes an extremely solid, well build freshmen that physically looks like an upperclassmen.
I just want to see way, way better effort on the defensive end.
Ignas is 19 so he is a little older than most freshman. Plus he has the advantage of having played Oak Hill and other high level competition in high school. I think he will contribute but not likely that he'd go pro after just one year. I think he will have more of a role in our offense than Poole did this year. But you never know how things pan out once the season starts.
I'm rooting hard for the guy. My Dad went to school in Orangeville, and I still have family in Caledon just outside of the Orangeville/Mono area.
Interestingly, Michigan Hockey suffered a series of postseason disappointments in the 90s, and the team that broke through in 1996 was captained by Steve Halko, from Bolton (where my Dad lived), 30 km down the road.
Perhaps Iggy can help prompt a breakthrough of similar fashion.
April 17th, 2018 at 12:07 PM ^