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Originally Posted by rfaulk34
Effort, athleticism and the ability to get your shot is different from being able to put the ball in the basket. I'm not arguing for or against what you're saying, just weighing in, in general and relating to Dickenson.
Basketball courts are strewn with the bodies of hyper althletic guys who can get to the basket and get open shots and hustle their ass off, but can't finish. Dickenson is very good putting the ball in the basket. He has a couple moves down low but he's not really athletic...at all. He simply has the innate ability to put the ball in the hole from multiple angles.
Combine that with his height and you have a frustrating player who is what he is.
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The other half of that coin is athletics are also strewn with guys who made it look crazy easy at lower levels because they were just that much better than everyone else, then either Peter Principle themselves out of sports or don't know how/don't care to raise their game/effort/prep/etc for the first time in their life when they're met with relatively close competition. And now with NIL, we get to ponder players showing up just for the paycheck, too.
I'd imagine it has to be the most frustrating aspect of being a coach. You want your try hard guys to try hard and make the most out of their college sports experience before they start their career selling insurance, but you
really want your good to great players to elevate their game to the highest level possible and not waste great potential.
Watching Mahomes **** around in a regular season game for 3 quarters just to win the game on the final drive is fine, but that doesn't mean it's also not frustrating when you know Mahomes can play at a far higher level for four quarters.
Given the talent around Dickinson and the fact he's not Mahomes, Dickinson ****ing around leads to 30 point losses to decent teams and losing at home to shitty teams, so it's that much more frustrating when he's proven he has extra gears that he hasn't used most of the season.
Yeah, he can walk onto the court and get a double double, nobody is saying he sucks... that's fine. It's not crazy impressive at the college level for a 7' center so I'm not going to give a handjob to the guy every time he excels at being tall and more talented than the average college player who often struggles with layups.... granted, stats are kind of irrelevant to the discussion anyway. Bust your ass and if you and/or your team still weren't good enough, so be it.