Thursday, January 20, 2011

Who will benefit most from Creeks injury?

As most (if not all) of you know Maurice Creek went down last Saturday against Michigan in the final two minutes in a nine-teen point victory over the Wolverines. Some people question him being in the game that long but you can't fault Crean for that. First off, heres fractured his other knee last year, not this one. Second Crean said Creeks left knee was 100%. That discussion is now over, and I won't write any further about it. The one question I'm trying to lead you up to is who will benefit most from Creeks injury?
Would it be Victor Oladipo? Would this open up playing time for Will Sheehey? Would Matt Roth (a wild card pick) get something out of this? There's one guy who I think will step up and help Indiana more in the long run (hint: he is now too). It's Jordan Hulls. That kid needs to shoot the ball more. This is how this injury could help him.
Since Creek is out, Jordy has one fewer option to pass it to. If he has fewer people to pass the ball to, (the way he does virtually every time he gets in a spot where he probably should take a shot) maybe he shoots more and becomes Indiana's leading scorer by the end of the B10 season. I mean, just look at these stats and tell me whether this kid should shoot more . Jordan shoots 51.5% from behind the ark, 56.7% overall, 84.4% from the line, he leads the whole dang NCAA in effective field-goal percentage and true shooting percentage. This kid averages at least about twenty-three points right? Wait, only ten? Your joking right? Oh, well. Of course it should be noted that if he did shoot a lot more, his numbers might take a little beating, but there is no reason why this kid shouldn't be averaging at least fifth-teen or sixteen points a game. No reason.
If anyone reads this, tell me who you think should benefit most from this and you think will benefit the most from this in the comments.

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