Originally Posted by
Saratoga2
That view of Quinn's effort neglects to note the same 300th rated squad had Seth looking bad with turnovers and relatively poor floor leadership while Tyler was just okay. Quinn looked brilliant in the second half. The point of Seth nursing a sprained ankle is probably contributing to the showing, but it is encouraging to see Quinn coming on as a point guard.
My point is we might want to temper our excitement about Quinn. I'm not sure what the comfort level is going to be just throwing them out there in an ACC game with a 5 point margin with 12 minutes left. As already noted by Kedsy (I think), if we want to be able to rely on Quinn being a regular contributor this season he is going to have to do more than score, we already have perimeter scorers.
I was honestly equally encouraged by Gbinige's performance who isn't getting as much pub in this thread. He was an excellent matchup in this game because he was equally quick but with far more length than Gboro's perimeter guys - and Gboro's players were very quick. He had a really nice drive to the baseline and defensively he shows a lot of potential. I still have some doubts that will translate to reliable contributions in the ACC season but there is a lot of promise for the future.
Seth hasn't had great scoring output lately but I'm really not worried about it at all. He has already shown to be a very mature player. I would honestly like to see him more vocal more than anything. His slide in scoring may very well have something to do with switching from primary point to off-guard then back again over the course of these early games. Nobody has had more roles to fill than Seth so far and he has probably been the guy best suited to deal with that. Everyone else has pretty much had their role set for them.
"Just be you. You is Enough."