Cryer

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Crawfoso1973
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I think this stud deserves his own thread. He has overcome extreme adversity his first couple of years with us:

-year 1: buried on the bench behind an NBA backcourt. A lot of top recruits in his situation would have hit the transfer portal, and it would be understandable.

-year 2: Serious foot injury derailing and ultimately ending his season.

This season, I am noticing a couple things. First, he looks fully healthy. Second, he has fully bought into the Baylor strength and conditioning program. Cryer and Flagler look noticeably stronger and have added muscle, without sacrificing speed and quickness. Once again, kudos to Charlie Melton. Cryer's added strength has helped him with his ability to penetratre, draw contact and hit mid-range jumpers and floaters. His game appears to be much more diverse than it was previously as he seemed to be trending as a Brady Haislip 3 point specialist. Like Flagler, Cryer is a scoring machine from all 3 levels.

One sequence yesterday was even more impressive than the improvement in his body and his skill set. He was guarding a UCLA player who hooked him with a chicken wing over and over again. Shoulda been an easy offensive foul call, but the dumb ref called the foul on Cryer. Cryer did not react emotionally to the player or to the ref. Anecdotally, this shows Cryer has also devleoped the intangibles and the mental fortitude of the guys who came before him....Flagler, Teague, Butler, Davion.




Quinton
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Yep. Noticed all the same things.

Crazy floater game and much improved initial burst to get past defender. Also thought he was trending as a specialist that possibly lacked the athleticism to do more at this level. Might have been a combination of the injury and lack of time transforming body at the high D1 level.

If those mid range finishes keep up its game over. And his passing was surprisingly good. Underrated passer.
Johnny Bear
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Really happy he's back and apparently at 100%. I still think about how much more successful we would've been last season had he not gone down.
davesburgerbarn
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Cryer is an offensive stud. Only criticism is his defense at times.
bear2be2
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davesburgerbarn said:

Cryer is an offensive stud. Only criticism is his defense at times.
Yeah, he got toasted a couple of times late against UCLA. But he generally makes up for any defensive gaffes on the other end of the floor.
Crawfoso1973
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And while we are nitpicking, if he is hoping to get a shot at the next level (nba), needs to develop some semblance of PG skills. Not too many scoring-only guards at his size ever really get a shot. Still has time to develop that though over the next two years.
DanaDane
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A lot of you guys are a lot older than me and have seen a lot more Baylor players than I have, but at least I have never seen a Baylor player better than LJ at shooting from afar when his feet are set. If you watch him, when he gets the feed and if his feet are set you can almost count the 3 the minute it leaves his hands. Heslip was pretty good at the same thing a few years ago and of course Flagler is good at it, but LJ is money when his feet are set as he takes the shot.

All 3 of our guards can create, which somewhat nullifies the full necessity of a PG, but I seriously believe if we did have a true PG to facilitate and distribute, LJ would be shooting about 50% from 3 and averaging about 25 a game right now as he would be in a position to get set before shooting whereas now he's not always afforded that opportunity because he's creating in other ways. That's not to take away from what he's doing (18 ppg and 39% from 3) because it is awesome seeing the offensive firepower he brings. I was seriously afraid of whether or not we would see a healthy LJ this year because stress fractures involving the feet are so tricky to gauge the timetable when someone is fully rehabbed and healthy to play again.
Stefano DiMera
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Yeah I am older but TCU's Jamie Dixon and Tech's Bubba Jennings were the best college shooters Ive seen
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