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	<title>Comments on: Middlebury Loses to Amherst in Thriller</title>
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		<title>By: clubbo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guys- think your rightful elevation of NolanT. to POY is spot on. He&#039;s done everything asked of him and although some of the others have better numbers on the &#039;O&#039;, only Workman is in the same zip code defensively- but he&#039;s still not the impact player on &#039;D&#039; that Nolan is. To me- let Toomey battle out Joey for POY next year. Mayer and Willy are not there -even on the stats, as far as impact players. Mayer in particular. Why do you think Maker is having TheEphs play so much zone? They&#039;re not good enough in the m-m and Mayer&#039;s part of that. Workman feeds off a lot of the coverages on Toomey, and would probably be a lot less effective on his own,which is another reason to go with a defensive guy- which BTW almost never happens in BBall award situations.From here, of course I&#039;m biased- it&#039;s Nolan, without even a photo-finish camera.

It&#039;s clear that you&#039;ve done all your homework on Wesleyan and the only perspective your lacking is one you can have because of the geography. That&#039;s where I may have an edge because I&#039;ve seen Shasha and Callaghan et al. probably 15 times over their careers. In the areas that you can&#039;t quantify, the first thing that was noticeable this year was that the chemistry was different. Wes., 20 and 6 last year lost only Mendel, but wasn&#039;t (and hasn&#039;t) been the same team. Do not know what caused this but Mendel gave them the bail-out guy from &#039;3&#039;, when or if Shasha or Beresford drove the ball. Not there this time around. Due to that or becoming seniors, there has been more than a tendency for Shasha, Callaghan, and Beresford to give up the &#039;O&#039; plan and try to do it on their own. That thinking is counter-productive to a consistent &#039;O&#039;, and it shows in the 12 and 12. Thirdly they are very susceptible to a zone as you have noted because it takes away from slash-and-pop or dish. And although Callaghan has improved over his career (like Williamson) from outside, mentally he&#039;s still an inside player. Beresford strictly a catch-shoot kid prior has been putting it on the floor this year. That&#039;s good for any opponent. Not big enough to finish in traffic, he&#039;s not a great passer either. Finally- with possible exception of Galvin- they do not have a zone breaker- that dial up jump shooter who alone can change the game flow. In toto, the longer Midd can zone them the better in my view, because Shasha will get frustrated- almost always over dribbling- which causes everybody else to stand around. My take is that he has regressed from where he was on the team &#039;O&#039; page last year back to his early soph.-type season. That&#039;s good for us. Go Panthers! Talk soon. Clubbo.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guys- think your rightful elevation of NolanT. to POY is spot on. He&#8217;s done everything asked of him and although some of the others have better numbers on the &#8216;O&#8217;, only Workman is in the same zip code defensively- but he&#8217;s still not the impact player on &#8216;D&#8217; that Nolan is. To me- let Toomey battle out Joey for POY next year. Mayer and Willy are not there -even on the stats, as far as impact players. Mayer in particular. Why do you think Maker is having TheEphs play so much zone? They&#8217;re not good enough in the m-m and Mayer&#8217;s part of that. Workman feeds off a lot of the coverages on Toomey, and would probably be a lot less effective on his own,which is another reason to go with a defensive guy- which BTW almost never happens in BBall award situations.From here, of course I&#8217;m biased- it&#8217;s Nolan, without even a photo-finish camera.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s clear that you&#8217;ve done all your homework on Wesleyan and the only perspective your lacking is one you can have because of the geography. That&#8217;s where I may have an edge because I&#8217;ve seen Shasha and Callaghan et al. probably 15 times over their careers. In the areas that you can&#8217;t quantify, the first thing that was noticeable this year was that the chemistry was different. Wes., 20 and 6 last year lost only Mendel, but wasn&#8217;t (and hasn&#8217;t) been the same team. Do not know what caused this but Mendel gave them the bail-out guy from &#8217;3&#8242;, when or if Shasha or Beresford drove the ball. Not there this time around. Due to that or becoming seniors, there has been more than a tendency for Shasha, Callaghan, and Beresford to give up the &#8216;O&#8217; plan and try to do it on their own. That thinking is counter-productive to a consistent &#8216;O&#8217;, and it shows in the 12 and 12. Thirdly they are very susceptible to a zone as you have noted because it takes away from slash-and-pop or dish. And although Callaghan has improved over his career (like Williamson) from outside, mentally he&#8217;s still an inside player. Beresford strictly a catch-shoot kid prior has been putting it on the floor this year. That&#8217;s good for any opponent. Not big enough to finish in traffic, he&#8217;s not a great passer either. Finally- with possible exception of Galvin- they do not have a zone breaker- that dial up jump shooter who alone can change the game flow. In toto, the longer Midd can zone them the better in my view, because Shasha will get frustrated- almost always over dribbling- which causes everybody else to stand around. My take is that he has regressed from where he was on the team &#8216;O&#8217; page last year back to his early soph.-type season. That&#8217;s good for us. Go Panthers! Talk soon. Clubbo.</p>
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