re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

I’ve seen the rumors but appears to start with a fairly low follow Twitter account. Muss said he was good to go for Wednesday game but he did sit the 2nd half on Saturday in a blowout.

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Is he hurt or did a "family advisor" get in his ear about protecting his draft stock?

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He went to the locker room a little early in Saturdays game but from all accounts after the game, he could have gone back in if needed.

If he truly does sit out the rest of the year, its not because he isn't hurt. Probably our biggest cheerleader on the bench before he played this year.

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JQ was the least of our problems the last game

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He had 3 turnovers in 12 minutes. Bradley had 2 in 31 minutes. JQ just dribbles himself into trouble entirely too often. He doesn't play under control, and he doesn't play like his job is to pass the ball to the open guy. He plays like he's the first option to take a shot on every possession and only relinquishes the ball when he doesn't have another option.

There was a point in Quinerly's career here where he was that first option, prior to his injury and partly due to who was surrounding him. He's not that guy anymore, it would be a lot better for the team if he could realize that. Playing to his strengths will go hand in hand with playing to the teams strengths. The guy is one of the best dribblers in college basketball but he gets way too caught up in it and gets tunnel vision and resorts to 1v1 way too much.

I knew it was really bad but I didn't realize it was quote that bad. Sheesh

Yep. It's all a really unfortunate situation since most of the games where we could have afforded to play him more came early in our OOC schedule, but at some point you also have to look at the total body of work and acknowledge that 2020-2021 has been the exception. I understand that he's coming back from a serious injury, but that isn't something that is forcing him to dribble himself into trouble or take ill-advised shots, both of which have been a recurring theme with JQ his entire career aside from a couple of months two seasons ago.

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Yep. It's all a really unfortunate situation since most of the games where we could have afforded to play him more came early in our OOC schedule, but at some point you also have to look at the total body of work and acknowledge that 2020-2021 has been the exception. I understand that he's coming back from a serious injury, but that isn't something that is forcing him to dribble himself into trouble or take ill-advised shots, both of which have been a recurring theme with JQ his entire career aside from a couple of months two seasons ago.

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He just can't seem to be on the floor and not try to make things happen. I love the general "no conscious" type of attitude, especially in a point guard, but he's reached Wendell Green Jr levels of it so far this season. I just don't think it is possible for him to play and not play the way he plays.

Based on roster construction, I don’t think the staff can really make him a 9th or 10th guy off the bench like Pringle unless they play Bradley 35+ minutes. Sears is so much better off the ball and I don’t think he offers near the same value as the 1 versus the 2 so JQ kinda has to play minutes.

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I just don't think it is possible for him to play and not play the way he plays.

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I don't either. I think his role on this team should be secondary ball handler/off ball guard who is tasked with cutting to the basket and spotting up from 3, but I don't think he is capable of playing like that. It's just getting to a point where it feels like JQ is a scratch-off ticket and Oats is a degenerate gambler who has spent $10,000 trying to win another $10,000 on a ticket like he did that one time a couple of years ago. In theory it could happen, but odds are he's just going to spend a lot more money on nothing.

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I mean, that's clearly rust and knee stuff, right?

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It's the knee. The question is will it get better this year (or ever)

JQ used to get relatively open looks at the rim because he had the footspeed to just dart past defenders. That doesn't appear to be there anymore, so he's taking contested shots and you're seeing a lot of them get blocked. If his thought process what's drive/pass instead of drive/shoot he would be a better fit, but when he gets in his head he's going to get a shot off, he's going to get a shot off

Some people just seem too "ooh" and "aah" at some of the passes he's made this year and that tends to make them forget about the 2 TOs that he's made trying to get off a pass like that. Like I've said multiple times this year, Oats needs to start him off in an off-ball role until he shakes off this funk. If Bradley, Sears, or Miller is in, you have to run the offense through them. It's gotten to the point where 90% of JQ ISOs turn into a wild shot or a TO, both of which have had an extremely high frequency of turning into 2 or 3 points on the other end.

The one prop I will give him though, is that he's trying his arse off on the defensive end. He was a massive liability on that end, and even with him coming back off an ACL injury, he has looked extremely improved on that end. I have a feeling that is why Oats keeps putting him back out there. If he was playing the same level of defense as he has previously, there is no chance he'd be seeing the floor.