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From smumustangs.com:

http://www.smumustangs.com/feature.asp?id=194

Great quote:

“I want Bryan to be a leader,” said Tubbs. “He’s somewhat quiet by nature, but I want him to be more vocal. He needs to be a leader on and off the court. He’s a great talent, but we still need for him to work on improving his game. He’s a good shooter, but I think he can be a great shooter. As our point guard, we need him to improve his decisionmaking and assist-to-turnover ratio. It was around one-to one last season, but I want it to be three-to-one or better.”

Hopkins needs to improve his point play this year, big time.

True. But someone has to help Hop and become a scorer this year. A high turnover to assist ratio is inevitable when your PG is the team’s leading scorer by 6 points more than the next leading scorer.

Last year’s scoring leaders:
Hop - 17.7 pts
Simpson – 11.3 pts
Castro – 9.9 pts

No question. Hopefully the "up-tempo" game will generate some fast break opportunities and give the point a chance to pump up assist numbers and somebody else's scoring numbers simultaneously.

The player that must step up for us this year in order to be successful is Isham. He is a great talent athletically, however, has been too inconsistent in the past seasons. His improvement (3 point shooting & driving the ball to the hoop) and steadfastness should only benefit Hopkins by us having two 'slashers' instead of one. In past seasons we have relied too much on only B-Hop's ability to penetrate defenses on the permiter. Also, having two players that can attack the defense would limit the defenses ability to double team B-Hop and further open passing lanes to big men for easier layups.

I mean let's face facts...this team needs for everyone to step their games up a notch or two if there is any chance for Tubbs to have a good showing in his first season. Guess we'll start to see what happens Friday nite.