Reggie Johnson is a total and utter nonfactor...

[Consigliere]

The problem with that guys post is he said he had a great game last year so no one can say anything. Thats as dumb as the people saying he shouldnt step on the court again cause of last Saturday

That is not what he is saying, he is saying he saved us the last time at Duke and this time he had a bad game so lay off.

Just because he played well at Duke a year ago doesn't mean he should be excused for playing horribly on Saturday. All he had to do was give us something and we win. I still like the guy but unless he turns it around starting tonight, he's going to go down as a disappointment here.

But he is playing well this season. So the guy had one bad game, get over it. You will be one of the few who call RJ's career a disappointment. I would gladly take a center who gets 8 and 8.

 

[DCF in LA]

Is this real life? RJ has been a big disappointment this season, certainly NOTHING like what we'd thought we'd be getting from him. The fact we're even discussing him coming off bench instead of starting should have been the tip-off. Julian ******' Gamble, bless his soul, was a borderline ACC bench scrub prior to this season. Now you're asking for him to start over a center with legitimate talent. That's how far Reggie has fallen.

There's still time for the big guy to make a contribution, but he doesn't look anything like the player I've seen in the past. I would bet he's got a physical ailment of some kind, because he just doesn't look the same at all, and he's also making bad decisions with the ball so now it's getting into his head as well. Bad mix.

 

[rok]

6 points, 6 rebounds, at least one turnover per game since his return from injury. To his credit, he was playing very well before he got hurt.

 

[canes1977]

The problem with that guys post is he said he had a great game last year so no one can say anything. Thats as dumb as the people saying he shouldnt step on the court again cause of last Saturday

That is not what he is saying, he is saying he saved us the last time at Duke and this time he had a bad game so lay off.

Just because he played well at Duke a year ago doesn't mean he should be excused for playing horribly on Saturday. All he had to do was give us something and we win. I still like the guy but unless he turns it around starting tonight, he's going to go down as a disappointment here.

But he is playing well this season. So the guy had one bad game, get over it. You will be one of the few who call RJ's career a disappointment. I would gladly take a center who gets 8 and 8.

One bad game? He might have one good game since returning from injury. I wish i could see the team's +/- with RJ in the game. I would be shocked if we were in the plus, which is saying something since we will win the regular season title. The guy has been a train-wreck since returning for the Duke game.

 

[tcgrad1014]

I'd rather see Jekiri getting Reggie's minutes at this point.

 

[Consigliere]

I guess we are all on different pages with RJ.

Reggie Johnson presses on as 'Canes play for ACC title

March 5, 2013|By Michael Casagrande, Sun Sentinel
CORAL GABLES — Standing on the ACC logo, Reggie Johnson flashed to the rim. His hands were up, Shane Larkin's pass was on line, and the lane was open.

All was well until the ball slipped through his fingers. The set play coming out of the last TV timeout at Duke on Saturday summed up one of the more difficult games in Johnson's Miami career. He went scoreless in the 79-76 loss — something he hadn't done since his freshman year.

But there's no time for moping and his Hurricane teammates aren't seeing that from their fun-loving big fella. There's no time for any of that. Not with the stretch run sixth-ranked UM (23-5, 14-2) faces and the potential glory that awaits.

It starts again Wednesday evening with a challenge from one of the ACC's top defensive big men. Georgia Tech and 6-foot-11 Daniel Miller will be in the BankUnited Center at 9 p.m. to test Johnson and Miami's bounce-back ability. Miller leads the ACC with 2.2 blocked shots per game and has blocked as many as five on three separate occasions.

But the Yellow Jackets (15-13, 5-11 ACC) have lost three of four and the Hurricanes have an extra incentive. A win Wednesday clinches the outright ACC title — the first in Miami's nine seasons in the league. The Hurricanes had only one other winning record in league play before exploding this season.

So will Johnson get his second straight start after coming off the bench for a month-plus? Miami coach Jim Larranaga on Monday said the two practices would determine quite a bit. But he was leaning toward putting Johnson back out there over Julian Gamble, who started 18 straight before Saturday.

"He's actually more rested than Julian," Larranaga said. "Julian took us through a real grind."

But Johnson's had a rough go through his senior season. First it was the broken thumb that sidelined him for a month from late December through January. Then there was the process of shaking off the rust and working back into the rhythm of the game.

He had huge games at North Carolina State and Florida State when the rest of the Hurricane offense was off. Johnson beat the Wolfpack when his 15th point beat the final buzzer by two seconds. Three games later he had 14 in Tallahassee, but the consistency hasn't followed.

In the four games since his last double figure outing, Johnson is 7-for-22 (31.8 percent) from the field and scored a total of 14 points. Senior guard Durand Scott knows Johnson can and will be a factor again soon.

"I'm pretty sure he'll find a way," Scott said. "Basketball players are determined to win, they're determined to do well. It's not like they just go out there and plan on playing bad, so I'm pretty sure in one of these games coming up, he's going to have a breakout game. We just have to do a good job of finding him in good positions to score the ball."

After the Duke game, Larranaga said Johnson spoke with assistant Chris Caputo about the situation.

"He felt like he knows he didn't play like he's capable of playing," Larranaga said. "Everybody has games like that."

 

[gordonsolie]

I think coach L has seen enough of Reggie. He only played 5 minutes in the second half

 

[Dandycane]

I think coach L has seen enough of Reggie. He only played 5 minutes in the second half

RJ honestly looks like he's medicated. Simply has his head in the clouds.

 

[SBAMACANE]

RJ should not play anymore. Guy is a total basketcase. He's a 3rd string C right now from the Sun Belt conf. He's that bad!! Really!!

 

[DCF in LA]

RJ should not play anymore. Guy is a total basketcase. He's a 3rd string C right now from the Sun Belt conf. He's that bad!! Really!!

We have to play him, because there's nobody else to play. This is why I keep saying, even though he and Rion have been doing nothing, you can't stop playing them some minutes, because the starters MUST rest.

All we can do is hope and pray they do something positive.

 

[ItsAllAboutThisU]

He's a factor alright. He's every other teams MVP against us. If this were baseball, he'd have "back soreness" and be put on the 15-day DL so we could bring in someone else.

 

[gordonsolie]

RJ should not play anymore. Guy is a total basketcase. He's a 3rd string C right now from the Sun Belt conf. He's that bad!! Really!!

We have to play him, because there's nobody else to play. This is why I keep saying, even though he and Rion have been doing nothing, you can't stop playing them some minutes, because the starters MUST rest.

All we can do is hope and pray they do something positive.

Wrong. Jakiri should play Johnsons minutes

 

[DCF in LA]

RJ should not play anymore. Guy is a total basketcase. He's a 3rd string C right now from the Sun Belt conf. He's that bad!! Really!!

We have to play him, because there's nobody else to play. This is why I keep saying, even though he and Rion have been doing nothing, you can't stop playing them some minutes, because the starters MUST rest.

All we can do is hope and pray they do something positive.

Wrong. Jakiri should play Johnsons minutes

Jekiri is already playing those minutes. But one front court replacement is not enough, not even close. And TJ has absolutely no offensive ability to speak of. He can't give Kadji a rest, because it signals to the other team that you only have to worry about Shane and Scott. RJ gives you, at the very least, the potential for low post scoring.

Whether or not he ever does anything the rest of this season.... guess we'll find out.

 

[LexCane55]

No idea why he is starting

 

[tcgrad1014]

At the game tonight. Seemed to me that Reggie has a lower extremity injury. He can't move at all. I'm not talking "he's so fat" stuff. I mean he looks injured. He can't move his feet to defend; he can't jump at all (not that he was ever Dequan Jones in that regard); once one of the best rebounders in the ACC, he is now unable to rebound offensively or defensively; he does not want the ball on offense, and when he is thrown the ball for wide open looks he has no ability to catch it. He looks flat out uncoordinated; like he has never played basketball before terrible. His entire game is filling space (for what benefit I don't know) and trying to set screens for Larkin and Scott on offense. He's completely useless out there. I would much rather see a JAG like Akpejiori on the floor...at least he can run and jump. Without a viable Reggie, we go nowhere in the post-season. And he is very very far from viable.

 

[DCF in LA]

At the game tonight. Seemed to me that Reggie has a lower extremity injury. He can't move at all. I'm not talking "he's so fat" stuff. I mean he looks injured. He can't move his feet to defend; he can't jump at all (not that he was ever Dequan Jones in that regard); once one of the best rebounders in the ACC, he is now unable to rebound offensively or defensively; he does not want the ball on offense, and when he is thrown the ball for wide open looks he has no ability to catch it. He looks flat out uncoordinated; like he has never played basketball before terrible. His entire game is filling space (for what benefit I don't know) and trying to set screens for Larkin and Scott on offense. He's completely useless out there. I would much rather see a JAG like Akpejiori on the floor...at least he can run and jump. Without a viable Reggie, we go nowhere in the post-season. And he is very very far from viable.

Something will come out after the season is over. There's no way he forgot how to play basketball in one off-season, compared to what he was before.

 

[tcgrad1014]

At the game tonight. Seemed to me that Reggie has a lower extremity injury. He can't move at all. I'm not talking "he's so fat" stuff. I mean he looks injured. He can't move his feet to defend; he can't jump at all (not that he was ever Dequan Jones in that regard); once one of the best rebounders in the ACC, he is now unable to rebound offensively or defensively; he does not want the ball on offense, and when he is thrown the ball for wide open looks he has no ability to catch it. He looks flat out uncoordinated; like he has never played basketball before terrible. His entire game is filling space (for what benefit I don't know) and trying to set screens for Larkin and Scott on offense. He's completely useless out there. I would much rather see a JAG like Akpejiori on the floor...at least he can run and jump. Without a viable Reggie, we go nowhere in the post-season. And he is very very far from viable.

Something will come out after the season is over. There's no way he forgot how to play basketball in one off-season, compared to what he was before.

Agree 100%. First of all, he has never been a "low effort" guy before. It makes no sense that suddenly with a few games left in his career here, on by far the best team he has played on here, he would stop trying. The guy is hurt. The decision Larranaga needs to make is whether a hurt Reggie is a net positive or net negative. Against Duke and GT he was clearly a negative...to the point that we may have won both of those games if he simply didn't play at all.

P.S. From what I saw last night, Reggie should sit until the NCAAT.

 

[JefeGringo]

At the game tonight. Seemed to me that Reggie has a lower extremity injury. He can't move at all. I'm not talking "he's so fat" stuff. I mean he looks injured. He can't move his feet to defend; he can't jump at all (not that he was ever Dequan Jones in that regard); once one of the best rebounders in the ACC, he is now unable to rebound offensively or defensively; he does not want the ball on offense, and when he is thrown the ball for wide open looks he has no ability to catch it. He looks flat out uncoordinated; like he has never played basketball before terrible. His entire game is filling space (for what benefit I don't know) and trying to set screens for Larkin and Scott on offense. He's completely useless out there. I would much rather see a JAG like Akpejiori on the floor...at least he can run and jump. Without a viable Reggie, we go nowhere in the post-season. And he is very very far from viable.

Something will come out after the season is over. There's no way he forgot how to play basketball in one off-season, compared to what he was before.

Agree 100%. First of all, he has never been a "low effort" guy before. It makes no sense that suddenly with a few games left in his career here, on by far the best team he has played on here, he would stop trying. The guy is hurt. The decision Larranaga needs to make is whether a hurt Reggie is a net positive or net negative. Against Duke and GT he was clearly a negative...to the point that we may have won both of those games if he simply didn't play at all.

P.S. From what I saw last night, Reggie should sit until the NCAAT.

Agree with all of this and said it myself two weeks ago, there is something seriously wrong with him. What, we dont know, but something isnt right.

 

[tcgrad1014]

At the game tonight. Seemed to me that Reggie has a lower extremity injury. He can't move at all. I'm not talking "he's so fat" stuff. I mean he looks injured. He can't move his feet to defend; he can't jump at all (not that he was ever Dequan Jones in that regard); once one of the best rebounders in the ACC, he is now unable to rebound offensively or defensively; he does not want the ball on offense, and when he is thrown the ball for wide open looks he has no ability to catch it. He looks flat out uncoordinated; like he has never played basketball before terrible. His entire game is filling space (for what benefit I don't know) and trying to set screens for Larkin and Scott on offense. He's completely useless out there. I would much rather see a JAG like Akpejiori on the floor...at least he can run and jump. Without a viable Reggie, we go nowhere in the post-season. And he is very very far from viable.

Something will come out after the season is over. There's no way he forgot how to play basketball in one off-season, compared to what he was before.

Agree 100%. First of all, he has never been a "low effort" guy before. It makes no sense that suddenly with a few games left in his career here, on by far the best team he has played on here, he would stop trying. The guy is hurt. The decision Larranaga needs to make is whether a hurt Reggie is a net positive or net negative. Against Duke and GT he was clearly a negative...to the point that we may have won both of those games if he simply didn't play at all.

P.S. From what I saw last night, Reggie should sit until the NCAAT.

Agree with all of this and said it myself two weeks ago, there is something seriously wrong with him. What, we dont know, but something isnt right.

I'm sure Coach L knows, and what is puzzling to me is why he keeps playing him when he's obviously a liability. Maybe it's the kind of injury you need to play through? I don't know.

 

[JefeGringo]

At the game tonight. Seemed to me that Reggie has a lower extremity injury. He can't move at all. I'm not talking "he's so fat" stuff. I mean he looks injured. He can't move his feet to defend; he can't jump at all (not that he was ever Dequan Jones in that regard); once one of the best rebounders in the ACC, he is now unable to rebound offensively or defensively; he does not want the ball on offense, and when he is thrown the ball for wide open looks he has no ability to catch it. He looks flat out uncoordinated; like he has never played basketball before terrible. His entire game is filling space (for what benefit I don't know) and trying to set screens for Larkin and Scott on offense. He's completely useless out there. I would much rather see a JAG like Akpejiori on the floor...at least he can run and jump. Without a viable Reggie, we go nowhere in the post-season. And he is very very far from viable.

Something will come out after the season is over. There's no way he forgot how to play basketball in one off-season, compared to what he was before.

Agree 100%. First of all, he has never been a "low effort" guy before. It makes no sense that suddenly with a few games left in his career here, on by far the best team he has played on here, he would stop trying. The guy is hurt. The decision Larranaga needs to make is whether a hurt Reggie is a net positive or net negative. Against Duke and GT he was clearly a negative...to the point that we may have won both of those games if he simply didn't play at all.

P.S. From what I saw last night, Reggie should sit until the NCAAT.

Agree with all of this and said it myself two weeks ago, there is something seriously wrong with him. What, we dont know, but something isnt right.

I'm sure Coach L knows, and what is puzzling to me is why he keeps playing him when he's obviously a liability. Maybe it's the kind of injury you need to play through? I don't know.

My thought on the matter is that the coaches know the team better than we do, so whoever we clamor for, there is a reason those guys arent out there. I've rarely seen a larger liability on the court when it appears there are better options on the bench. It's puzzling for sure.