Player Stats from SMU Victory

[The_Iceman]

Portis:      22 pts, 5 rebs
Qualls:     13 pts, 5 rebs, 4 asts, 1 stl
Madden:  10 pts, 5 asts, 7-8 FT's
Williams:  9 pts, 5 rebs, 2 asts, 1 stl
Bell:        7 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl
Beard:     6 pts, 1 ast, 1 reb
Watkins:  5 pts, 2 stls
Kingsley:  4 pts, 4 rebs, 2 stls, 1 blk
Harris:      2 pts, 3 rebs, 2 asts, 3 stls

http://espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400586692

[Hog Fan from Camden]

Williams is playing much better than Harris at this point.

[Big Nasty 34]

Beard is going to be a great scoring guard for us in the future. Already can do some nice things.

[The_Iceman]

Beard is going to be a great scoring guard for us in the future. Already can do some nice things.

I like his role right now. He has the potential to expand that later in his career to become more of a distributor if he needs to be.

[Pignominious]

Portis:      22 pts, 5 rebs
Qualls:     13 pts, 5 rebs, 4 asts, 1 stl
Madden:  10 pts, 5 asts, 7-8 FT's
Williams:  9 pts, 5 rebs, 2 asts, 1 stl
Bell:        7 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl
Beard:     6 pts, 1 ast, 1 reb
Watkins:  5 pts, 2 stls
Kingsley:  4 pts, 4 rebs, 2 stls, 1 blk
Harris:      2 pts, 3 rebs, 2 asts, 3 stls

http://espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400586692

Kingsley did his work in only nine minutes. Only had one foul too. Harris played 14 minutes and had four fouls. Would have liked to see him get more minutes down the stretch.

Portis, Williams, and Harris are not rim protectors. Kingsley is. SMU shot better than 50% from 2 pt. range. They shot well over that in the second half.  Portis and Williams can't guard good post players. Kingsley has the potential, but how ready is he for serious minutes? He looked good in stretches last night, but I do recall him getting beat on a few plays. Maybe MA thinks he's still raw.

[yraciv]

Kingsley did his work in only nine minutes. Only had one foul too. Harris played 14 minutes and had four fouls. Would have liked to see him get more minutes down the stretch.

Portis, Williams, and Harris are not rim protectors. Kingsley is. SMU shot better than 50% from 2 pt. range. They shot well over that in the second half.  Portis and Williams can't guard good post players. Kingsley has the potential, but how ready is he for serious minutes? He looked good in stretches last night, but I do recall him getting beat on a few plays. Maybe MA thinks he's still raw.

I wouldn't say Portis can't guard LP players, he just has a lot of room for improvement. Lots of those low post baskets weren't post up moves. They were put backs, lobs, and a guy getting free on the defense.

[SPAL]

Harris can decrease his role anytime now. I have no confidence in him. The bull in a China cabinet act is tired

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Harris can decrease his role anytime now. I have no confidence in him. The bull in a China cabinet act is tired

He handles the ball like it's covered with ebola.

[Beaverfever]

Harris needs to get back on track and forget he was ever given the green light to launch jumpers and penetrate.  Williams is playing the best ball of his career and will be stealing Harris's minutes soon if Harris doesn't embrace his new role.

[hogsanity]

Williams is playing much better than Harris at this point.

I was thinking the same thing. When is Harris going to start losing PT? He has not looked good the 1st 4 games.

[Hollywood_HOGan45]

Harris needs to get back on track and forget he was ever given the green light to launch jumpers and penetrate.  Williams is playing the best ball of his career and will be stealing Harris's minutes soon if Harris doesn't embrace his new role.

Harris would be ten times better if he had a blue collar mentality and did the nasty work down low.

[sadhogfan]

He handles the ball like it's covered with ebola.

+1

[Kevin]

He struggles inside against players with length.

[mhuff]

Harris needs to get back on track and forget he was ever given the green light to launch jumpers and penetrate.  Williams is playing the best ball of his career and will be stealing Harris's minutes soon if Harris doesn't embrace his new role.

If MA was doing a good job of developing him, he would not be taking those bad shots. Makes me want to puke when he shoots a fade away. Everybody thinks they're Michael Jordan....... Harris shot 46% last year..... Think what it would be if he played for the team instead of himself. Plus, please don't dribble.... That's on the coach.... You tell them not to do it ,and if they don't listen, you take them out of the game. You don't reward players who don't listen.

[PonderinHog]

Harris' 1 on 4 move to the basket upset me last night.  That said, he can help this team and probably will.  He came on strong late last year.  Maybe he'll do it again.  :razorback: