George S. Patton wrote:MustangIcon wrote:George S. Patton wrote:The groin injury will keep him out against Houston -- we know this with Matt's blog but this is a definite. Nothing like having arguably your best player out against CUSS's second-best team. However, Roberts is expected to return on Saturday against Tulsa. He's averaging 9.9 ppg.
You would have a hard time convincing me of that in an arguement about our second best player.
Then who is our best player in your estimation?
I actually read your post too quickly and thought you were claiming Roberts as our second best player, which makes my response above a bit confusing. My response should have read "You would have a hard time convincing me that he is our best player."
To me Roberts has become pretty much a spot up jump shooter but he isn't very good at that skill. What does he shoot from 3pt range- MAYBE 30 percent this season? On his career he may be is just over 30 percent but still not that great. His talent when he got to SMU was taking the ball to the hole. Injuries have limited his explosiveness some and he does not penetrate much anymore. I will take Doh's word that he and Killen are both great leaders, so he has that going for him. Killen is awful handling the ball, but make him a 2 like D-Rob and play him off the ball and he is more valuable than Roberts.
To me Dia, Bamba, Killen are all players that I see as more valuable than Roberts at this point in his career. Malone too potentially. Roberts would be more valuable than a lot of these guys, specifically against UH which runs a small fast line-up at you, but I don't think he is our best player.
***None of this is meant to at all bash D-Rob. I am very appreciative of his hard work at SMU and the way he has represented our school. I just don't think he is our best player.***