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Player Tyler Thornton

I don't want Collins to leave, who would do our halftime interviews?
 
skins said:
I don't want Collins to leave, who would do our halftime interviews?
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Sam Ponder: Coach James, what do you guys need to do to defend Andrew Wiggins in the second half?
Nate James: Man, that nicca crazy. He got hops like daaaaayum. Ill holla at coach, see what we can do but thats a bad man right der.

/racist
 
Coach K said that Tyler would be a coach someday. It's in his quotes after the first Carolina game.
 
The day after Real God gave Damascus the greatest gift of his life , K blew out the Fab Five for his second title. lol@ atheists .
 
best4heisman said:
Do you guys think he's gonna start next year? I mean, Ty's been a spot starter since he was a freshman, so I'm not sure his start Saturday is indicative of what we'll see in the future.
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Yeah, I do. Cook's kind of a vocal leader, but he's still maturing a lot. We'll have a leadership void on next year's team with Ryan/Seth/Mason gone.
 
If Thornton doesn't start, it will mean he will have pushed Sulaimon to get so much better that Sulaimon beats out the captain. It's the same story all over again. Freshman struggles to get it on defense, makes some mistakes on offense, falls behind Thornton after looking like he would be something special in the early-mid season. Freshman works his ass off to beat out Thornton and becomes special as a sophomore.
 
I still think our starting lineup is Cook, Sulaimon, Hood, Parker, x, with Thornton first off the bench. I mean, Sulaimon started over Thornton most of this year and he's bound to make a big sophomore leap.
 
SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:
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Brilliant Machiavellian move by Coach K.

He has clearly decided to hide Rasheed Sulaimon from NBA scouts in the hopes that Rasheed comes back for his sophomore season and becomes part of a top-3 nationally ranked team.

I applaud it.
 
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rome8180 said:
I still think our starting lineup is Cook, Sulaimon, Hood, Parker, x, with Thornton first off the bench. I mean, Sulaimon started over Thornton most of this year and he's bound to make a big sophomore leap.
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The X-man has eligibility @ Duke next year? Duke will go 40-0
 
5 points---perfect from the field, 2 steals and excellent effort for every minute he was on the court. Even his 2 fouls were ideal.
 
I think teams literally forget he's on the court because he doesn't make an impact until he does (DUH TOPHER YOU MORON). Arguably as stealthy a basketball player I've ever seen.
 
Gotta love Thornton's end of clock prayers.

I wish Thornton could be some crazy off the bench version of Bruce Bowen, meaning a defensive-specialist who hits open threes, but obviously that's unreasonable. The one real problem I have with him is turnovers. He does so little on offense, yet turns it over at such a high rate. And a lot of them (ok, I'm honestly thinking of just one case when I say this) look terrible - like just lazy, telegraphed passes that would never have a chance of being completed.
 
He does have a rather high turnover percentage (26%). I wish he would avoid that one turnover per game completely, and have zero turnovers, but wasting one possession per game is acceptable, IMO. I think it's harder to have a very low turnover percentage when you're not taking many shots (9% shot). He's basically just passing the ball a lot out there. I find it really difficult to evaluate Thornton using any kind of stats.
 
Grit said:
Gotta love Thornton's end of clock prayers.

I wish Thornton could be some crazy off the bench version of Bruce Bowen, meaning a defensive-specialist who hits open threes, but obviously that's unreasonable. The one real problem I have with him is turnovers. He does so little on offense, yet turns it over at such a high rate. And a lot of them (ok, I'm honestly thinking of just one case when I say this) look terrible - like just lazy, telegraphed passes that would never have a chance of being completed.
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The Bowen comparison is spot-on. Why unreasonable? Because Bowen was a 39% career three-point shooter, and Tyler, though improved, is only up to 38.2% this year?
 
SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:
He does have a rather high turnover percentage (26%). I wish he would avoid that one turnover per game completely, and have zero turnovers, but wasting one possession per game is acceptable, IMO. I think it's harder to have a very low turnover percentage when you're not taking many shots (9% shot). He's basically just passing the ball a lot out there. I find it really difficult to evaluate Thornton using any kind of stats.
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Exactly. I don't think turnover rate is a good way to evaluate Tyler because he is almost never asked to shoot or create for anyone. Turnovers are the only way he will end a possession. I think looking at his turnovers vs his minutes played are a decent way to evaluate him. One turnover a game isn't bad for a guy playing 20+ mpg.
 
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