Grade Jae'Sean Tate season

[victor2111]

A for effort. A for being our 2nd best player most of the time. And was only a freshman. Tate was fun to watch. I'm going to enjoy watching him for four years. I know he is going to be in the gym working hard. He needs to work on his jump shot, if he can add that to his game, he will be very good college player.

[angrybaldman]

Solid B, hope he grows

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I gave him a C. Had great flashes, but nothing that stood out to me other than a great heart. Has a high ceiling.

Put his effort and passion into Amir's body and it would be scary.

[mauricxe]

B. He needs more pt

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His hustle and passion made it a B for me.

[be3585]

Anyone notice that him and D'Angelo are going to be exactly like Deshaun Thomas and Jared Sullinger? Even the same #'s. Both came in highly, but freshman year it was obvious that Jared was better then Deshaun. Jared left early (Shouldve left freshman season) and deshaun stayed. When Jared left then Deshaun took over the team and lead them in basically everything you can lead a team in. I can see D'Angelo and Jae'sean doing the EXACT same things.

[BuckeyePaul]

I don't know what you are all smoking, but Tate emerged as the 2nd best player on the team as a freshman. He gets a solid A from me......a no-brainer!!

[WANG]

B for sure.

Probably the most hustle on the team, needs to develop a bit on both ends, but at least he brought energy.

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Mar 23, 2015 0:38:53 GMT -5 BuckeyePaul said:

I don't know what you are all smoking, but Tate emerged as the 2nd best player on the team as a freshman. He gets a solid A from me......a no-brainer!!

It's you that's smoking something, Paul. The fact that Tate was the second best player on the team was indicative of how bad the rest of the team was except for Russell and not of Tate actually being worthy of an A. Russell is our only A player. What exactly did Tate do that was anything close to Russell? Nothing. He was a great spark and has a huge upside, but there is no way he's an A. I gave him a B and I think he's closer to a C than he is an A.

[victor2111]

For me, it is what was expected of Tate. Nobody expected Tate to be in the rotation this year and he went beyond that and bexame a huge piece for us.

That is why he gets an A for me.

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Mar 23, 2015 15:32:10 GMT -5 victor2111 said:

For me, it is what was expected of Tate. Nobody expected Tate to be in the rotation this year and he went beyond that and bexame a huge piece for us.

That is why he gets an A for me.

You grade way too easy, IMO. This isn't a knock on Tate at all. I like the kid and I love what he did for us this year. I still stand by my stance that him playing as much as he did didn't have as much to do with what he did, but was a result of our other players sucking has bad as they did. If our seniors were even average, if Loving was even average, then Tate wouldn't have seen the court that much.

[victor2111]

He earned his time when others couldn't step up, I agree. Props to him. Loving, kbd(higher rated freshman), etc others couldn't make the plays.... Tate did.

Tate had shoulder surgery in feb and was expected to miss at least half a year. He average like 9ppg and 6rpg as a freshman. Pretty solid, when most people expected nothong from here. Matta compared him to David lighty, not bad. I say that is at least a high B.

What did you expect from Tate before the year? He is 6-4 and became our best big guy on the team. Think about that for a second.


Big offseason for Tate though. He needs to work on his jumper. We will see. Lighty improved his as his career moved on. Thompson and Scott didn't. Let's hope Tate follows lighty career... i think he will be more like lighty judging by his heart on the court. Same as lighty...

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Mar 23, 2015 19:12:15 GMT -5 victor2111 said:

He earned his time when others couldn't step up, I agree. Props to him. Loving, kbd(higher rated freshman), etc others couldn't make the plays.... Tate did.

Tate had shoulder surgery in feb and was expected to miss at least half a year. He average like 9ppg and 6rpg as a freshman. Pretty solid, when most people expected nothong from here. Matta compared him to David lighty, not bad. I say that is at least a high B.

What did you expect from Tate before the year? He is 6-4 and became our best big guy on the team. Think about that for a second.


Big offseason for Tate though. He needs to work on his jumper. We will see. Lighty improved his as his career moved on. Thompson and Scott didn't. Let's hope Tate follows lighty career... i think he will be more like lighty judging by his heart on the court. Same as lighty...

Tough to argue. I know as the season went along, I wanted him on the court more. He had some bone headed freshman moments, but his intensity and passion where almost unparalleled by anyone else on this team.

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Like I said, I give the kid a ton of props, but there is no way in hell he gets an A in my book. I don't care what people may have expected out of him or not. I judge by what I saw on the court. He's a solid B.