Purvis when healthy (4 games - CofC, Dayton, Coppin St, Dook): 11 PPG, 43% from the field, 38% from 3. He's explosive and can get to the rim. He's still getting back into game shape (which is TOTALLY different from practice shape and you know this if you ever played any basketball) so just give the man some time. Yes he turns it over 3-4 times a game but I can live with that if he is being aggressive, attacking, and looking for his shot. He needs to be our 3rd scoring option and he will be. He wont be a "ferarri" but he will be our guy to get us 10ppg.
Brimah: I mean I don’t know who the heck thought even with all the pre-season hype that he would gone after this year but that is absurd. He has a ways to go. Right now he can handle undersized bigs and tall lanky bigs akin to himself easily. But the skilled bigs with some meat on their bones obviously still pose a tough challenge for him. BUT take it easy on the big man. He has developed EXPONENTIALLY since last year!! Last year he struggled to walk and chew gum and now he’s out their catching alley-oops and all. He will get stronger, which will allow him to be a bigger force on the glass and obviously on the offensive low post.
Omar: Just give the man a damn shot before you all write him off. Freshmen Omar was amazing and had so much potential. That potential is not gone, but his confidence is. Even last night was so much better than what we saw for the most part at the tail end of last year. Last year he was an automatic turnover when the ball touched his hands. He was cool, calm and collected last night. Yea the shots didn’t fall for him but they will and when they do and his confidence begins to sky rocket it will be HUGE for this team.
Overall: There is so much positive to take from this team. 4-4 sounds so bad it makes me sick but were 2 last second 3 point attempts from being 6-2. We’ve lost to 3 automatic tournament teams and Yale has a shot in the IVY to win the regular season title and get the automatic bid. This team will get it together, it will all click, unfortunately it will be against our putrid AAC opponents. But I truly believe in this team, I’m not giving up yet, this team has so much fricken potential and god damnet we held our own with #2 Duke who was considered by ALL to be one of the top 2 title favorites.