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Re: Suggs, Cole & Wagner Selected in Rising Stars Competition 

Post#121 » by Blue_and_Whte » Sat Feb 19, 2022 4:19 am

PrimeThyme wrote:Wagner is so lost out there lol. He's intentionally glued himself to the corners both games. Sengun even tried to get him to come around on a handoff action and he didn't want it. Idk why he's this way lol

I said this during Summer League. His game just doesn’t translate well in those type of “unstructured” run and gun type of environments.
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Post#122 » by richi_v25 » Sat Feb 19, 2022 4:24 am

I liked the tournament format, it made for 3 real entertaining games.
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Post#123 » by thelead » Sat Feb 19, 2022 4:29 am

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Post#124 » by basketballRob » Sat Feb 19, 2022 4:42 am

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Re: Suggs, Cole & Wagner Selected in Rising Stars Competition 

Post#125 » by ReadyOrlando » Sat Feb 19, 2022 5:02 am

richi_v25 wrote:I liked the tournament format, it made for 3 real entertaining games.

I think they should use the same format for the main Allstar game going forward.
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Post#127 » by CZ Eddie » Sat Feb 19, 2022 5:39 am

That Suggs to Cole at the end of the video was pretty cool to watch.
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Post#128 » by DiplomaticMagic » Sat Feb 19, 2022 7:40 am

I think the Suggs to Cole oop was the highlight of the night.
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Post#129 » by Skybox » Sat Feb 19, 2022 12:50 pm

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basketballRob wrote:I missed Cole pulling his shorts down.


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Best defensive effort we’ve seen from him :lol: I really do love the guy- just not sure where he ends up role-wise
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Re: Suggs, Cole & Wagner Selected in Rising Stars Competition 

Post#130 » by LDNMagic90 » Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:25 pm

thelead wrote:At least it was entertaining. More evidence that Suggs’ shooting woes are all mental right now.


I was thinking the same when I was watching. What we need is our coaches/older players(not many of them on the team) to tell him to mentally approach regular season games the same way he did in the rising stars game.
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Re: Suggs, Cole & Wagner Selected in Rising Stars Competition 

Post#131 » by JF5 » Sat Feb 19, 2022 10:33 pm

LDNMagic90 wrote:
thelead wrote:At least it was entertaining. More evidence that Suggs’ shooting woes are all mental right now.


I was thinking the same when I was watching. What we need is our coaches/older players(not many of them on the team) to tell him to mentally approach regular season games the same way he did in the rising stars game.


It's going to take some time for him... Seems like he's overwhelmed in pressure situations which in turn causes performance issues.

Luckily he's on an organization that seems to really focus on player mental/physical health with their players. Hopefully Suggs can take advantage of the resources here.
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Re: Suggs, Cole & Wagner Selected in Rising Stars Competition 

Post#132 » by Magic#1 » Sat Feb 19, 2022 11:05 pm

JF5 wrote:
LDNMagic90 wrote:
thelead wrote:At least it was entertaining. More evidence that Suggs’ shooting woes are all mental right now.


I was thinking the same when I was watching. What we need is our coaches/older players(not many of them on the team) to tell him to mentally approach regular season games the same way he did in the rising stars game.


It's going to take some time for him... Seems like he's overwhelmed in pressure situations which in turn causes performance issues.

Luckily he's on an organization that seems to really focus on player mental/physical health with their players. Hopefully Suggs can take advantage of the resources here.

I'm still convinced Suggs is a cornerstone type of player. Maybe not as good as some of us had hoped, but will still be a very, very all-star type of player. If I had to guess what happened with his short early on is in part that we were so thrilled to get him and announced him to be a savior that he put that pressure on himself. It was and is too much for him. Even at Gonzaga he didn't have that pressure. But as he learns to relax, let the game come to him and work with a coach like Moseley, he's going to get better quickly. He's too talented and has a great head on his shoulder.

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