I think we should probably pump the brakes here a little bit. He played 10 minutes last night. He’s played 25 minutes on the season so just over 1 half of basketball.
Has it been pretty? Absolutely not. I think right now he’s a little hesitant and struggling to figure out his role. Garza is operating inside and Nunge isn’t going to be a highly effective guy on the perimeter on offense. He needs to one go in the post more and look for the ball, and two he needs to hit the glass way harder than he has been.
My biggest concern right now is he looks a lot slower than I expected. I don’t know if he’s just playing a little hesitant or that’s just his top speed. If that is his top speed we are in pretty big trouble because Kriener and Pemsl, and obviously Garza are even slower of foot than him. We can’t afford to be playing big minutes with Garza alongside either Kriener or Pemsl, it’s too big of a defensive liability. If Jack can’t guard 4 men in this league either, we are going to need to slide Pmac down to the 4 and play a lot of zone or Wieskamp down there and just play pretty small.
I found it funny all the ppl who were ripping Nunge in the game thread when he played 10 minutes, and wasn’t really any noticeably worse than anyone else. I guess the offseason hype is probably the reason for that. Jack was not going to be a big scorer, and that’s not what we needed from him in the starting lineup. We need Defense and rebounding, we have plenty of scoring firepower on this team.