I don't know how many of you have had a chance to watch Hunter Thompson over the last couple years but I got to see him for the first time tonight as the Hornets traveled here to Kimball, NE and put on a show against the much smaller and outclassed Longhorns.
Take aways from Hunter Thompson's performance:
Nice shooting touch - hit about 5-6 three pointers that I don't think touched anything but net.
Smart player - made the extra pass to get teammates layups and open looks. Able to feel contact and get shots up to the rim although arms were draped all over him.
Slow defensively - the one real downside I saw is that he just doesn't move laterally very quickly at all. Granted that Kimball didn't run a guy over 6' tall and most are track athletes, so he won't be guarding guys like this in college, but 6'8" guys playing college ball aren't slouches and are playing D1 basketball for a reason.
I don't know what our recruiting class is like next year, but with having him be able to practice with guys like Dalton and Herndon who have very similar body types, I hope they give him a redshirt year to figure things out. I hope after a year of learning from those two he could step in and play like Dalton has this year.
Take aways from Hunter Thompson's performance:
Nice shooting touch - hit about 5-6 three pointers that I don't think touched anything but net.
Smart player - made the extra pass to get teammates layups and open looks. Able to feel contact and get shots up to the rim although arms were draped all over him.
Slow defensively - the one real downside I saw is that he just doesn't move laterally very quickly at all. Granted that Kimball didn't run a guy over 6' tall and most are track athletes, so he won't be guarding guys like this in college, but 6'8" guys playing college ball aren't slouches and are playing D1 basketball for a reason.
I don't know what our recruiting class is like next year, but with having him be able to practice with guys like Dalton and Herndon who have very similar body types, I hope they give him a redshirt year to figure things out. I hope after a year of learning from those two he could step in and play like Dalton has this year.
