Ado with the career high 19 points last night
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Ado is seeming to get better with each game. Should have a bright future ahead of him.
On a side topic, I wonder why A&M wanted to wear the maroon uniforms instead of the normal home white. Could it have been because they did not want to be playing against a team dressed in maroon? I also wonder why we wore those gray uniforms (which I wasn't crazy about) instead of white? Is that what A&M requested, so they wouldn't get confused as to who was who?
I'd be curious what his free throw percentage is for the last 10 games. His shot looks a lot better than it did at the beginning of the year
I don't think I have ever seen a player appear to get more athletic over a season like this. He has gotten his legs under him and now is a true scoring threat. That dunk last night where he broke up the floor against the press was something he probably couldn't have done in December.
I think it helps that his stamina is high. Being a soccer player he did a lot of running which I think gives him an advantage late in games.
He's doing a much better job with control.
Early in the year he'd have it stripped going up, or get hacked to hit 1 FT at best. He's actually getting shots off now, and many of them are dunks.
Early in the year he'd have it stripped going up, or get hacked to hit 1 FT at best. He's actually getting shots off now, and many of them are dunks.
I'm sure we wore gray just because it irritates Brian that we never seem to wear maroon against Texas A&M****
I've enjoyed watching his improvement so much as this year as gone on. Like others have said his soccer background must really have helped his endurance, because I've never seen the big man get tired. I'd really like to see him add 25lbs to his upper body to help him finish shots with contact. His FT stroke has looked better and better. He has the form and touch to shoot 70% and he seems to be well on his way accomplishing that. I really enjoyed his interview they showed last night. Seems to be a high quality young man. Don't know about a diamond but Howland definitely found a gem in the rough in him.
He's got a lot of things that you can't coach, mainly size, and athletic ability. There are a lot of big guys that don't have his natural athleticism.
It has been said over and over but bears repeating... He is still a baby on the court. Most of those guys he is playing with have been playing roundball since they were tiny, he hasn't and is learning more every game.
With his athletic ability, there is really no ceiling to his development.
As long as he doesn't adopt Hakeem's moving pivot foot. You can see some of it in the video you linked. Hakeem was famous for pivoting one way on his toe, then pivoting back on his heel.
He didn't play in a basketball game for ~1 1/2 years before the first game this year.
Adu was a 4* ESPN Top 100 player and Mr. Tennessee POY. In other words the most known player in the entire state of Tennessee.
The last player I saw like him.... that also had a soccer background.... was Hakeem A with the Houston rockets. I saw him play as a college sophomore and there are similar ways they move. I believe the soccer has something to do with it.... if Ado could develop Hakeem’s drop step fade away over the next couple of years he will be an instant pro and make a lot of money there.
Ado has a bright future.
Ado has a bright future.
Adu has a chance to be one of the better players to ever come out of MSU. He has all the tools to be an outstanding big man. As has been pointed out he is just really raw. As he gains experience and confidence he is going to be something special.
We benefited by Herard transferring out and allowing Adu to get more playing time. It is now paying off. I love his demeanor on the court. He handles everything yet able to get a little feisty, e.g. when that Bear was shoving him in the post.
Those 8mpg of Herard's made all the difference!
...or Ado is just adjusting to the game thru the season and is able to stay on the court longer as a result.
He cam still be a diamomd is the rough, even if he was a known talent.
If his ranking was based on potential, then calling him a diamond in the rough is apt since that simply means he wasnt polished and all put together when he first arrived.
No it's the exact opposite of what a diamond in the rough means. An unknown talent is a diamond in the rough. A known talent that is named player of the year and ranked in the top 100 of ESPN is most certainly known about. You'll argue a cow is a chicken.
A diamomd in its natural state is quite plain. Only after much work and polishing does it become beautiful.
You can have a diamond in the rough and know what it is...something with the potential to be great if work is put in and it is polished.
That is exactly Ado. He, like a diamond in its natural state, was known to have potential. And with work and polish, both improved.
The phrase is not limited only to those who were unknown.
Ok but they don't give the Tennessee POY to a diamond in the rough or a prospect they give it to the best player in the state. POY awards aren't given to guys that might be awesome in 4 years.
Junior stats are pretty impressive. Basically a double double with 6 blocks a game. Team went 55-8 over two years.
Oh damn its a reach to call that 'pretty impressive'. A 6'10ish(at the time) post player not even averaging double digit points in high school is hardly 'pretty impressive'.
Its neat that he had a lot of blocks though...
Scoring 9.9 points in high school when you are 6'10 is always not impressive.
He was ranked high based on potential more than production. A real diamond in the rough, if there ever was one.
Ado's team also had Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nickeil Alexander-Walker on it perhaps you've heard of them? Shai starts for Kentucky as a freshman avg. 13 pts a game and Nickeil starts for VTech as a freshman averaging 11 pts a game. Team also had on it a guy playing for MTSU, 1 for Citadel, 1 for Evansville, 1 for UTC and two others playing juco ball right now. They were rated #2 team in Tennessee and Ado won player of the year for Tennessee that year amongst all those division 1 players on his team plus every other one in the entire state of Tennessee. I am sure they awarded him POY though because they all thought he was a diamond in the rough that would eventually turn into a better player that year than all the rest of the players despite that the only determining factor for a POY award is being the best current player for that year. I will have to reconsider when MVP and POY awards are given now because they are really awarded to the players that project to be the best player down the line and not for that current season. Ado should win POY for the SEC this year though because in 2020 he will be the best player in the SEC. A real diamond in the rough, if there ever was one. Right mstateglfr?
I think you’re mixing your aphorisms. To be a diamond in the rough doesn’t necessitate anonymity. And I would say that an almost 7 footer who averages under ten points a game being ranked as a four star is a great example of being ranked on potential. Our dearly departed friend Schnider Herard averaged 17 and 8 his senior year to obtain his four stars.
But I’m not sure what I’m even doing replying to this silly argument. Either way you slice it, I think we can all agree that Ado (what’s up with some people spelling it Adu) has a chance to get up there into the pantheon of big men at state.
We are an AG School. He was a Pea in the Pile. Now a Turnip in the trenches! Tractor on the Turn Row?
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