Brust put-up some impressive numbers. However, he's not a tall post, with bulk and strength to score, defend and rebound. Neither is Brust a magician PG, who can score from the perimeter. With Rossi, Franklin and Crabbe entering this Fall, I say pass on Brust.
Brust put-up some impressive numbers. However, he's not a tall post, with bulk and strength to score, defend and rebound. Neither is Brust a magician PG, who can score from the perimeter. With Rossi, Franklin and Crabbe entering this Fall, I say pass on Brust.
Scouting reports say Brust can score. He's also an elite shooter with deep range. The question is whether or not he can play the point. If he can, I'd take him. I've never seen the kid play, so I can't answer that question. Maybe he can be the next Jimmer Fredette, who a lot of scouts projected at the 2 as well coming out of HS.
Brust put-up some impressive numbers. However, he's not a tall post, with bulk and strength to score, defend and rebound. Neither is Brust a magician PG, who can score from the perimeter. With Rossi, Franklin and Crabbe entering this Fall, I say pass on Brust.
Agreed, we already have a number of players at the position he plays, including three freshmen. We should save the scholie for an impact player at another position.
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04-17-2010, 12:51 PM
Maybe Coach Monty is going to install the "40-minutes of Hell" style of Missou's Coach Anderson---soon to be a Duck. The "40_" utilizes 3 guards.
"And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction that all the machinery was rigged against him, at the bottom of his soul was a faith that he was going to outwit it, that by carefully watching the signs he was going to know when to dodge and be spared. It was fatalism with a loophole, and all you had to do to make it work was never miss a sign. Survival by coordination, as it were. The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside."-HT
Scouting reports say Brust can score. He's also an elite shooter with deep range. The question is whether or not he can play the point. If he can, I'd take him. I've never seen the kid play, so I can't answer that question. Maybe he can be the next Jimmer Fredette, who a lot of scouts projected at the 2 as well coming out of HS.
Video on him suggests he is less of a point guard than Franklin but can play some point. The offer and home visit to me suggests Monty is comfortable with Franklin, Jorge, and Smith for next year at the point. While I wonder about this I also wonder what Brust can do that doesn't duplicate the skills of Franklin, Rossi, and Crabbe. This seems to be a strange offer all the way around....
Video on him suggests he is less of a point guard than Franklin but can play some point. The offer and home visit to me suggests Monty is comfortable with Franklin, Jorge, and Smith for next year at the point. While I wonder about this I also wonder what Brust can do that doesn't duplicate the skills of Franklin, Rossi, and Crabbe. This seems to be a strange offer all the way around....
You can't tell stuff like that off a highlight video, but I don't think Franklin is much of a point from seeing him live on numerous occasions. Can't comment on Brust since I haven't seen him, but Monty obviously feels he can help.
Honestly, I don't think it says anything other than Monty sees the guy as another quality player we can bring in this year. I think in the college game, especially for a team like Cal, especially for a team like Cal in a year where the roster is missing bodies, you bring in quality players and let the coaches assign the roles. To me the question is whether we can bring in a better player with the last schollie next season and, if so, would that player be better enough to offset the need right now.
Given the fact that we don't have any scoring coming back and, in fact, its dubious that we have anyone that will ever develop into a really good scorer even over their career (I think Jorge can be pretty good, maybe Kamp too, but none really very good), bringing in four guys with the descriptions we've seen of Rossie, Crabbe, and Franklin doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. It would be nice to get some inside scoring, but you have to take what you can get.
OK. He made a couple of Randl-esque threes there.
Hustling, scrappy guard. Looks definitely like a Monty type of guy.
If he played for Stanford, we'd all hate him.
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