Scotty Hopson

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I don't know why, but I feel like he doesn't have that "it" factor. Maybe it's just me, but I was underwhelmed last year. I didn't expect Kevin Durant numbers, but I just wasn't impressed. What you guys think?
 
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He has a sweet shot. And he has a good atitude for whatever that is worth. I would rather have him than not!
 
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Raw materials are there. If maturity and mentality are added, sky's the limit.
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I think he comes through this yr. I would think Coach.P has helped him alot sence last season. He just waz new to everything and couldnt find his rhythm IMO!
 
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He has worked on his shot trajectory and taking the ball to the rim as well as being more agressive on the both sides of the court. I would expect for him to play well this year. It will be a very balanced scoring team so I wouldn't expect him to average more than 15 points per game.
 
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90VOL said:
He has worked on his shot trajectory and taking the ball to the rim as well as being more agressive on the both sides of the court. I would expect for him to play well this year. It will be a very balanced scoring team so I wouldn't expect him to average more than 15 points per game.
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Aggression, physical, and mental toughness are approximately 5,201 x more important to Scotty's game than the arc in his shot. I hope he has spent his practice time accordingly.
 
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He's gonna be a beast. He was a freshman last season, it's hard to say he doesn't have "it" (whatever "it" is) based on his season in college.
 
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zjcvols said:
I don't know why, but I feel like he doesn't have that "it" factor. Maybe it's just me, but I was underwhelmed last year. I didn't expect Kevin Durant numbers, but I just wasn't impressed. What you guys think?
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Man, you are just a glass half full kind of guy, huh? This is the umpteenth post about how the Vols don't measure up in some way.

Scotty has a ton of potential and definitely showed that promise as a freshman. If one paid attention to his play and not his hype, they would've seen Hopson as a pretty raw player with excellent physical capabilities. It's no surprise that Hopson was up and down his first year in the SEC, but he does have that ability to take over a game. His measurables are NBA quality and he has one of the best first steps we've seen in Knoxville, particularly for an off-guard. I just hope he reaches his physical maturity here and not while on the bench for the Dallas Mavericks.
 
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This is why your not a Scout.

Hopson has a really, really high ceiling. Future 1st round material. If he gets the Mental Game down watch out.
 
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Unimane said:
Man, you are just a glass half full kind of guy, huh? This is the umpteenth post about how the Vols don't measure up in some way.

Scotty has a ton of potential and definitely showed that promise as a freshman. If one paid attention to his play and not his hype, they would've seen Hopson as a pretty raw player with excellent physical capabilities. It's no surprise that Hopson was up and down his first year in the SEC, but he does have that ability to take over a game. His measurables are NBA quality and he has one of the best first steps we've seen in Knoxville, particularly for an off-guard. I just hope he reaches his physical maturity here and not while on the bench for the Dallas Mavericks.
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he has potential, but i want to see him mentally do it also. He has a lot of talent, but there was times last year he looked like the pressure was too big for him.
 
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Volfan_TrappedN_KY said:
This is why your not a Scout.

Hopson has a really, really high ceiling. Future 1st round material. If he gets the Mental Game down watch out.
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and that's the thing. Can he get the mental thing down. That's a pretty big if, a rly big if. And I'm not a scout, but i know enough basketball last year where Scotty was underwhelming and was crushed under the pressure (a.k.a. both UK games). I'm not the only one to notice this.
 
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zjcvols said:
he has potential, but i want to see him mentally do it also. He has a lot of talent, but there was times last year he looked like the pressure was too big for him.
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I think he looked like a kid willing to defer to his elder players. I was actually surprised by his attitude, much better than I thought it would be. I was expecting a kid who thinks he's god's gift to basketball and might sulk if he wasn't the primary option. He was remarkably humble with his teammates, though. I think we get an older, more mature version this year.
 
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Hop is going to have a great year, mark it down. Will be a bigger scoring threat than Smith. IMO by the end of the year Smith will be the third option behind Hop and Chism.
 
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I think you were trying to say glass half empty not half full. Glass half empty describes a person that is pessimistic and generally negative about life. While a glass half full person is optimistic and positive about life and the world.
 
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Unimane said:
Man, you are just a glass half full kind of guy, huh? This is the umpteenth post about how the Vols don't measure up in some way.

Scotty has a ton of potential and definitely showed that promise as a freshman. If one paid attention to his play and not his hype, they would've seen Hopson as a pretty raw player with excellent physical capabilities. It's no surprise that Hopson was up and down his first year in the SEC, but he does have that ability to take over a game. His measurables are NBA quality and he has one of the best first steps we've seen in Knoxville, particularly for an off-guard. I just hope he reaches his physical maturity here and not while on the bench for the Dallas Mavericks.
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Best first step? He rarely used it and his handle was so poor he defaulted to deep jumpers. It did get better, but his first step needs work.
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cotton said:
Aggression, physical, and mental toughness are approximately 5,201 x more important to Scotty's game than the arc in his shot. I hope he has spent his practice time accordingly.
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I do, too. However, I'm still haunted by three different coaches who have their teams in the preseason Top 25 laughing at me the summer after Hopson signed because they were getting a kick out of UT signing someone even more passive and timid than Vincent Yarbrough, who drove me to apoplexy on a regular basis.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I do, too. However, I'm still haunted by three different coaches who have their teams in the preseason Top 25 laughing at me the summer after Hopson signed because they were getting a kick out of UT signing someone even more passive and timid than Vincent Yarbrough, who drove me to apoplexy on a regular basis.
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that's my fear exactly.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I do, too. However, I'm still haunted by three different coaches who have their teams in the preseason Top 25 laughing at me the summer after Hopson signed because they were getting a kick out of UT signing someone even more passive and timid than Vincent Yarbrough, who drove me to apoplexy on a regular basis.
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As I have said before, I hope that is the product of youth in a small town kid, and that he will grow out of it.

I don't know which three coaches you specifically mean, but I count 5 (including Pearl) that were all hot and bothered by him on ability alone currently in the rankings.

The kid has talent, I just wish somebody would feed him some gunpowder each morning for breakfast.
 
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Scotty has said he's gotten more aggressive in at least one interview i read, but that doesn't mean much. I hope he has.... I think his shot will be better this year though. 15 points a game is what I see from him.
 
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cotton said:
As I have said before, I hope that is the product of youth in a small town kid, and that he will grow out of it.

I don't know which three coaches you specifically mean, but I count 5 (including Pearl) that were all hot and bothered by him on ability alone currently in the rankings.

The kid has talent, I just wish somebody would feed him some gunpowder each morning for breakfast.
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A guy with Hopson's personality wouldn't last a week playing for any of the three. I'm betting that clue will give you a pretty good guess who I'm talking about.
 
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Unimane said:
I think he looked like a kid willing to defer to his elder players. I was actually surprised by his attitude, much better than I thought it would be. I was expecting a kid who thinks he's god's gift to basketball and might sulk if he wasn't the primary option. He was remarkably humble with his teammates, though. I think we get an older, more mature version this year.
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He looked to me like a kid who got stuffed by a midget from Marquette and didn't want it to happen again. What you name humble, I see as bashful.

Nobody on this board wants to see him succeed more than me. He has the ability, but he is going to have to find some fire in his belly to ever reach his potential. Again, he is young and I am hopeful, but that is a lot harder to teach than the proper shape of a jump shot.
 
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hatvol96 said:
A guy with Hopson's personality wouldn't last a week playing for any of the three. I'm betting that clue will give you a pretty good guess who I'm talking about.
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For personal development, I'm not sure a marine seargent coach might not have been a better choice for Scotty. There were certainly some that wanted him.

I'm still inclined to give a tenative freshman a pass for his first year on campus before passing judgement. As passive as he was a times last year, he still had a good season for a freshman and showed occasional flashes of brilliance.

EDIT: WTH is the red thumb above my post?
 
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cotton said:
For personal development, I'm not sure a marine seargent coach might not have been a better choice for Scotty. There were certainly some that wanted him.
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I can think of a couple of guys for whom signing Hopson would have been the worst thing to ever happen to both the coaches and Scotty.
 
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