Quote Originally Posted by Ari Gold View Post
Well if your so great with stats .. and that seems to be the one factor you always go to
Compare Nicks offensive stats to Tyson?s
Im not saying we don?t need Tyson or that he needs less minutes

But the damn knee jerk reaction with the we dont really need Nick that it gives more minutes to Tyson and RWII or Nick isnt a big of a factor on defense is ****ing absurd.

Asking anyone that knows anything about basketball or just listen to how key Nick is both ends of the court and to our team making a run in the dance

If we don?t get him back it?s a huge blow.
Can we still win and make a run ? Yes
But the undervalue of losing Nick is mind blowing to me
Two different knee jerk reactions jump out at me.

On the one side is the crowd "Gotta have Nick back, can't play certain teams without him, etc." or "he's our savior".

On the other side is the crowd "I think we just as good without him" or "our best 5 on the floor are Tyson, Q, Ado, Perry, Woodard".

So both are knee jerking probably and we certainly could use Nick for depth. But I don't think he's an indispensable player on this team. He is however a key component of it. We've played just as good of team D without him so far, and I would argue Arky is out best game of the season so far overall.

A little perspective. I 2005 we were destroying teams and playing some lights out ball when Frazier went down with broken ankle against OM. Either the next game or 2 games later we lost to Bama in T-town by 49. That's indispensable.

We end up limping into the tourney as an 8 seed. With Frazier we probably end up no worse that a 2 seed and possibly could've been a 1 (probably not tho).