The House of Blue

Can you give us the article where he said that? Honestly can anybody remember the group he came in with? That was why he came here was because of the talent he was joining so why would next year's group scare him off? If Kyle leaves, I will be surprised but lets not push him out the door because as a junior next year he will be very valuable for us.

Kyle is good enough to play here. He needs to really work in the weight room and train all off season. If he can get stronger and quicker he can be a much better player. He has always been developmentally young for his age. Kyle looks a lot like the players we saw 25 years ago. If you go back to photos of Issel or Robey as sophomores they had a similar build. I am not comparing them as players but their physical development. He just needs to work harder in the off season. It is important to actually have someone on the team that knows more plays besides driving to the basket if you want to win. He is a very skilled and intelligent player.

Absolutely, he is very dangerous in the high post. He is a threat to hit the cutter back door, pick and pop, and if the lane is clear he is sneaky enough to roll to the basket. He has been well coached.

Why does everybody act like Wiltjer is gonna transfer and go to another good team and play. Do you really think Mark Few is gonna allow Wiltjer to get scored on every play and keep playing him? He want get more than 20 mpg any big time school unless he gets bigger and stronger.

Without a doubt, the kid has got some HUGE glaring weaknesses defensively to be as skilled as he is offensively (when he is asserting himself).

He badly needs maturity to handle his performance lulls (seems to get down on himself alot), and to at least become serviceable defensively. I don't know how you get that done and won't pretend to, but maybe lateral quickness, strength, footwork? Lots and lots and lots of squats? I'm not sure.

I still think, if he leaves, it's to go try to get drafted while he can. He's about as good as he's going to be for the role he's going to play. And if he ever is going to get drafted, this is the year to do it. The next years' drafts will be much stronger.

Not saying I want him gone. But should he go, I would think he goes the pro route over the transfer route.

Bingo. Wiltjer is a good offensive player. I think he will be a monster as a senior here. But, the weight room ain't gonna do shit for him. He's not weak or timid, he's just slow as hell. That will never change. Not a chance in hell he's an nba player, but he will be and is key here!

Lol lol.

That's funny.

Harrellson was a really big dude. I would think his performance against Sullinger fr ohio state was a huge boost to his stock. Looking back, that was just an awesome performance culminating in that baseball throw to the gut and staredown

nah,

you are mistaken about something. He was open because he was a freshmen and no one truly had a scouting report on him. As the season progressed, his minutes went down quite a bit.

Also, Coach Cal didn't play Wiltjer at all against any physical team. He purposely allowed Wiltjer higher minutes against none physical teams, and limited minutes against physical teams. (or shitty teams)

His 20 plus minutes came against, Penn state, Radford, Chattanooga, Samford, and Loyola. That's it. And then you look at minutes against SEC, only time Wiltjer saw minutes were when we blew opponents out. Obviously he came to prevent injury to our star players.

Yes, having fire power helps. I have made that point before as well. However, against Wiltjer you don't need to focus on defense. You just need to remember one thing, his 3 point shooting. Since he doesn't lift that high, you can give some space as long as you jump to defend. That's why even tho, he LOOKS open, he still doesn't shoot or feel comfortable shooting TODAY. Which is one of the reason why he struggles.

Also, another issue with wiltjer is he is too WEAK to guard a center. He gets moved around too easily, and also you saw yesterday he has no strength to move a 4. That's a huge problem. Only time you see Wiltjer dominate offense is when you have major mismatch, and he is actually on stronger side. Which is rare.

Another issue is rebounding. He needs to beef up just to take up more space. Just so you can move people out of position, or get your self in good position to rebound. Watch him, he get's moved around like Cousin moved people around. Remember against Mississippi state in SEC championship. I still remember the hilarious in regulation buzzer beater tie. Cousin literally moved 2/3 MSU player to the side, and made a bucket. Harrellson was so strong that he moved people around, hence the high offensive rebound rate. Wiltjer needs that strength.

Also, base strength will help quickness and speed. Combine strength training and plyometric, that boy should be able to show major improvement in 2 years (by end of senior year).

Spot on. But I think he will be that guy sooner than u do. Still, even with poly whatever, dudes got no quicks. Which means he is constantly gonna get abused on pic and rolls. Switch or no switch. Offensively he needs to step into his shot long range, and needs space to operate on the interior. Both of those options are taken away by any team worth a damn. So, he is limited to hitting looonnnnggg threes and getting away with travels right now. No worries though, he will be a key piece this year and the next 2. I still think hood is going to represent as much as Wiltjer