"Guys, he played in the MAC - he's not used to these defensive concepts and the speed of the game. Why do you have such unreasonable expectations of him!!"
{ahem}
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I think that's pretty fair as well. I think Shepard came to the league more pro-ready, but I don't think that's Moore's fault. He just didn't play teams that would throw much at them defensively so he never really got a feel for playing against disguised looks, zones, etc....
Shepard was by no means an expert, but he was more advanced in that regard than Moore will be, IMO.
And really, Shepards numbers aren't far at all from what I said would be a reasonable expectation for Moore's 1st year results. I could see Moore having a very similar role as well.
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None of this is new. None of these points are novel or anything that wasn't considered by
some of us months ago.
And none of them even begin to undercut the original argument which is that Skyy Moore, while not a bad developmental player, was not a 2nd round caliber prospect.
"Well Kadarius Toney is actually talented" isn't the own you think it is, fellas.
And when even my 'hater' expectations were clearly FAR too high...well I guess it's my own fault for expecting he'd be able to hold off premium talents like Justin Watson to maintain his spot in the pecking order. Oops - my bad.