Don’t know if this has been posted or everyone already knows, but Scottie Pippen’s son, Scotty is starting for Vandy as a freshman averaging 10 a game,
BTW, per Tom Murphy, in addition to Nesmith, Vandy will also be without senior forward Clevon Brown. Hard times have fallen over the Vandy program for the past few years.
Of all the things PJ posts that are deliberately stirring the pot. . . . this one was just factual information and you choose to take issue with it. . . . . . . smh
I predict AR will take the game too lightly in the first half against an outmanned Vandy team but will come back … Capable of a 25 point win easily but think we win by 10-12 points. But, hey, a win is a win right… especially at home! Go Hogs.
Lets get far enough ahead that the “bench” can get some valuable playing time AND avoid us getting any of our starting 5 hurt while playing too lax. Hope our #6 - #9 get a LOT of playing time. We need to know what they can do in a real, non-practice setting. They NEED some confidence building for sure!
As I said, lax play first half and we are up by only 6. BIG thing is our top two players have NO points. Never happened before for an entire half!!!
Luckily others have stepped up a bit and we do lead. Hope it doesn’t end up with us winning by just 10, as I had mentioned 2 hours ago. Some energy and made shots by Jones and Joe in the second half is a must! Fingers crossed.
True last night because Vandy had no one who could handle Jimmy’s mid range and inside game. CEM has a very unique line-up with interchangeable parts. He’s talked several times about having to play Jones at the 4 (more point forward than power forward). And from the beginning he’s called Jimmy our PG.
Vandy decided they were going to defend threes like crazy, even when they were in the zone. Their bigs are slow footed and slow jumping, and they were not getting much help from the guards and small forwards who were sticking close to Joe and Jones. Kudos to Whitt and Chaney for taking advantage of the situation, and to our guards as a group for getting them the ball.
I was impressed with Pippen the younger. If he gets more scorers to play with and develops his outside shot a bit, he could make Vandy a very, very dangerous team the next couple of years.
In the few games I have seen, Scotty mostly came off the bench and hit well from the outside. He has been making 34% of his threes. 15 out of 44. For whatever reason, last night Stackhouse benched Saban Lee and started Scotty. Having to be the lead guard was probably something new and his outside shooting probably suffered.
Vandy will be dangerous starting next year. They will lose Nesmith but Stackhouse has some good recruits lined up.
Who was #3?..guy has a great offensive game. The 2nd half he didn’t make much noise, but he was impressive that first half. Vandy looked pretty good, even without Nesmith. They will be tough next year.