Stark Raving Brad - November 30

Nov 30, 2023, 4:25 AM

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Dear Mods - THIS moronic Clown asked for it. This was only one in a long line of unsubstantiated, derogatory posts....

Poster: Allowat
Nov 29, 2023, 5:52 PM

"He {former Clemson player Jonathan Baehre} didn’t play defense and left with a year of eligibility. Go drink some more! "

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THIS is what Clemson has to deal with. This is what TNET has to deal with. This is the continuing by-product of the Brownell regime. The uninitiated crossover "fans" from Soccer or Football or Barbies, who know diddly about Basketball, and yet get on this site and run their mouths as if they were Allen Iverson in another life. Or run their mouths about everyone else just to assuage their Ego. For them, it isn't about making Clemson better in any way. They spew opinion without regard to fact, without regard to reasonable argument, without regard to helping the site be informative to those who seek both understanding and camaraderie.

There are a fair number of other versions of “Allowat” on the Board. I only hope that this series begins to illuminate their insincerity.

To wit: Please note the Attachment with Defensive Ratings from the site "SportsReference..com". I have included the last full year's college data for Mr. Baehre and other reasonably known Power Forwards of College Basketball. The 9 Forwards listed at the bottom come from NCAA.com's Andy Katz, under the banner of "Top Power Forwards for 2023-24". This is Mr. Katz's list, not mine.

The group listed at the top immediately under Mr. Baehre are reasonably well-known ACC forwards, a number of which received various All-ACC recognition. These were all selected at random.

SportsReference explains that the DRating is based on 100 possessions, and is Opponent Points divided by Possessions (100). Obviously, the lower the Rating the better.

SOS is Strength of Schedule. Obviously, as well, the higher the number the better.

As a note of information, see that Pete Nance and Armando Bacot have the same SOS (7.66). That’s because they both played for the same team, and the rating was taken from the last year available (2022/23 in this case). Same team, same year = same rating.

Note as well that Clemson’s SOS for 2020/21 was higher than any other team represented in the two lists (mostly from 2022/23).

Most importantly, and contrary to the derogatory and consistently uninformed assertions by said poster, Mr. Baehre’s DRating was better than all but one on the ACC list, and also a fair number of those on the more general "Top Forwards" list.

It is what it is, Brownell sycophants be da.mned.

Welcome to Stark Raving Brad.....

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1. It's not Brownell's call to limit a player's opportunity. If he's the best player available, he should be playing. Baehre was the best option, and by far, for a small team that played small.

2. The options that we did use at SF - Trapp and Hemenway, alongside Newman - were no better suited for the position than Baehre. The first two were both only 6'3" - Newman was 6'5". At least Baehre offered Defense and Rebounding - exactly what we were missing against Rutgers in the NCAA (Baehre had 7 rebounds in 17 minutes against the Knights even as we were out-rebounded by 9). Indeed, it was Length that they didn't know he had, in addition to his shooting, that ultimately made Hunter Tyson so interesting to the NBA at SF.

3. Baehre might very well would have given Clemson another year had Brownell made him feel a bit more welcome in his year 2 here. Certainly he needed an additional developmental year. Given he was routinely ignored for playing times during games, who would dare question his move to the Pros?

4. When you recruit a transfer player in Basketball, you better know that they are coming for playing time. To not give it to them is hogwash.

5. It was only Brownell's insane emotional commitment to the 3-guard rotation, and the minutes it gave to Honor and Dawes (alongside Newman, Trapp, and Hemenway), that caused Baehre's lack of minutes. But Brownell has forever given preference to Guards even as it doesn't always yield the best team available. This, above all, shows Brownell isn't an instinctive Coach. Instinctive Coaches are forever looking for options outside the Box that challenge their own thinking.

6. You and Brownell suffer from absolute lack of creativity and vision. Can you imagine a 2-1-2 half-court D with the back three as Hall-Simms-Baehre? Prosper-Hall-Baehre? Prosper-Simms-Tyson? That's 6'8" to 6'10" across the backside with nothing but length getting to shooters on the wings and in the corners. What an unbelievable change-up that would have been to Brownell's normal M2M. Again: it's just lack of vision and the possibilities they bring.

You're a putz, Mountaineer. A real putz. I left you off the OP only because I'm tired of dealing with your limited knowledge.

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at what point do you as a person simply admit:

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Re: Stark Raving Brad - November 30

Good luck buddy!

What I want is for you and your like to stop playing with Ken dolls

Who is the blue hell is Jonathan Baehre?

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