Urban Renewal

Yep. I hope this encourages him to return next season. He should be in the mix for a starting role.

 

I didn't have any real expectations when we signed Victor, but then after seeing some practice clips I thought he actually moves pretty well for a big guy. He has potential.

 

6’11” 250 lbs, will get stronger and hopefully become a rebounding defensive monster, with putbacks, hopefully threes and ft’s. An enforcer to counter thug defensive teams like last night or Tennessee comes to mind. LOL

 

You know what I don't like about Urban? He is 6'1", which is basically my height...and he looks SMALL on the court. Damn, those guys are TALL!

 

Kid is terrific against the very thing teams are doing to us: aggressive blitzing, trapping, hard hedging of ball screens. Isn’t rattled by defensive pressure. Big question is how he handles things defensively against bigger, quicker SEC guards.

 

I'd love to find out next time we find ourselves in a Tennessee like quagmire

 

Who is a recent SEC guard that you would say is a comparable to Urban?

 

No clue, lol

 

We needed ball movement against UT and just didn't have any. Send Urby in next time.

 

Reed Sheppard?

 

He looked solid against the Vandy guards.

 

Edwards and Huffman aren’t the biggest or most athletic guards around, and he struggled a ton early in the season. That’s always been the book on him, though.

 

I’d start with a healthy Clayton

 

Just from a math perspective it seems like he should get 5-8 minutes game.
Both to build experience for the future but also spell our other guards- I mean 18 SEC games, plus the SEC tourney, is a real grind.

Just a thought...

 

Closet I can think of is the pg for Ole Miss. who can hit the three, drive it inside, very good and tough.

 

On the one hand, I'm not terribly confident about that happening at this stage of the season. On the other, the staff gave Aberdeen opportunities late in the season last year and he ran with them. Hard to say. With Clayton still hobbled, we may give him some early minutes the next two games just to see how he does against two physical defenses in tough environments.

It's worth noting, though, that this kid only played 6 minutes as the fourth guard, with Clayton out. That's a lot less than Aberdeen played in many games during the regular season last year (played in 16 conference games last year at 7 minutes per, usually as the fifth guard). Easy to get excited about those big shots, and I've heard enough rumblings that the staff really wants to see him contribute in some capacity this year so they know whether or not they can count on him next season. But we don't have a good reason to expect that he will somehow become a regular rotation player or anything. We'll see.

 

Who says he's still hurt? As of Monday, CTFG said he was hour-to-hour and obvioulsy sat out on Tuesday. If I were a betting man, I'd bet on WC starting at Aubrin.