lynchburger wrote:Man. Chris described Gardner-Webb as streaky and unpredictable the other day, but Winthrop is just as bad about that. They beat Clemson down there, then lost to Savannah State on the road. They blew up Asheville, but blew second-half leads to GW and Radford. What a crazy team.
Chris also mentioned Okeke, but Xavier Cooks is also big for them. He's already been named Freshman of the Week once, and he offers an "unusual set of skills" (sorry, "my daughter got taken as a hostage" movies) as a 6'8" guy who can play both the wing and the post.
Cooks has been learning to play in the post due to depth issues up front for WU with James Bourne and Larry Brown out for the season...his skill set is mostly of a wing player, and offensively, he's most effective driving to the basket as opposed to posting up. Defensively, he lacks bulk, but has exceptional length and basketball IQ, so he's able to block a lot of shots and deflect/steal passes pretty well.
But as to your first point, this WU team can't seem to string together success...after every good win or performance, they turn around and lose. All three conference losses have been games that WU either blew a big lead (GWU/RU) or had chances to ice the game at the end and failed (HPU). Though to be fair, WU won close games against Longwood and PC that could have gone the other way, so WU could be anywhere from 6-0 to 1-5 in conference play just by changing one play in 5 of the 6 games.
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