PonyFan32 wrote:I've seen numerous occasions where I thought he escaped an over the back call on rebounds, but there's no question he is an exceptional rebounder for his position. Which is one reason why he is perennially underrated when he's not the smooth shooter that Shake is or that Sterling or Semi or Nic were for us.
I go back and forth between Gu and Whitt as to who is our X-factor this year. I think Whitt is going to have to be a little more of a scoring threat to keep good teams honest so that he can continue to dribble drive through the middle.
I have had the same thought. I think Whitt is the X-factor. We need Gu to keep doing what he is doing (rebounding, playing good D, no TO’s and hitting 3’s). Asking him to do more than that is a little much, but if he can do that it would be huge.
Whitt needs to become more of a threat offensively otherwise in Conference it will hurt. He needs to be more aggressive attacking the bucket and shooting mid-range. He doesn’t have to score 12PPG, but we need a consistent 8-10PPG out of him. If he can effectively score around the bucket and get in the paint it will take us to another level.
I love what Gu is giving us right now though. If he can be a consistent spot up 3 shooter with everything else he already does that would be huge.