Erik Stevenson

[Good News]

https://twitter.com/ej_stevenson5/st...085456384?s=21

Oh man. I hate to say it because (1) I honestly wish the kid well, and (2) don't care about his - or anyone else's self glorification on social media, but...

Am I the only one that watched that and thought the perfect ending would have been a Lethal Weapon 6-style 3 pointer?

[newshock1234]

ES blocked me on Twitter

[Stickboy46]

ES blocked me on Twitter

Why are people sending him anything on social media??? Let's not make WSU look like a bunch of babies here

[Aargh]

Ya know how when we get a trfr, we go check the message board of that player's previous school? Just sayin' - not suggesting anything.

[Good News]

Takeaways:

1. I predict internet scholars will look back on the coronavirus and wonder how many it killed with useless internet content.

2. I deserve some type of award for being born in the 70s and figuring out how to do this table on the first try.

3. I started looking at career stats to try and find someone that had started half or more of the games in a season for Marshall that was a worse statistical shooter than ES and I couldn't find one so I kept going. Stats are career, WSU only. I don't care about apples to apples sophomore whatever, so don't bother pointing it out. I even threw big men on there if they actually took real 3s in games.

4. Erik really truly was the worst 3 point shooting frequent starter that we've seen in the Marshall era...

5. ... with the exception of AJ Hawkins. Dead heat with Stutz and Durley though...

6. ... which is not the peer group you want as a shooting guard in the AAC. Not to mention Shard, Rauno, Z Brown, and Machine Gun Willis all being significantly more reliable from 3 than you are.

7. Erik also has the worst effective FG%, tied with Samajae and AJ Hawkins (neither of whom, I believe, were ever recruited by Arizona, Texas, Gonzaga, or Creighton)

8. Graham Hatch! 38 percent from 3 in his career, but 100% from distance in the Gah-den with a championship banner on the line.

9. I had to double check Darius Carter, but he actually did hit 4 of 7.

10. Got dam Rags could play. Just seeing these numbers made me remember the Davidson game.


Bottom line - maybe ES would have improved, maybe he wouldn't have. But I doubt his shot selection would have, and I hated watching it.

Good luck to the young man elsewhere - it's going to be really unfortunate if his only problem was the same as Ricky Vaughn and he torches the NCAAs next year in those glasses.

	2FG%	3FG%	All FG%	eFG%
Stevenson	45	29	35	44
Etienne	35	39	38	51
Burton	44	34	42	46
Dennis	38	37	37	48
Wade	49	32	43	49
Echenique	54	31	52	53
McDuffie	49	34	43	50
Haynes-Jones	41	32	37	44
Shamet	56	44	49	61
Frankamp	48	39	43	55
Willis	54	38	52	54
Reaves	45	45	45	60
Z Brown	56	33	43	53
Kelly	49	32	47	49
Morris	56	36	55	56
Nurger	57	32	50	55
Daishon Smith	45	38	41	53
Baker	51	37	43	53
Van Vleet	45	39	43	49
Wessel	53	30	37	48
Early	56	35	47	54
Cotton	50	34	44	50
Carter	52	57	52	53
Armstead	44	35	40	48
D Williams	52	32	43	50
Ragland	60	42	52	61
Stutz	55	29	52	53
Murry	45	31	41	46
Kyles	49	36	42	52
B Smith	56	39	46	57
Durley	54	29	48	52
Hatch	49	38	42	54
Hannah	51	41	45	57
Hawkins	47	22	43	44
Cousinard	52	35	46	52
Breuer	48	36	41	51
Mekel	45	31	38	45

I hate to bump this because I really honestly think that - like in life - we should move forward with positivity instead of looking backward with negativity, and that a bad apple (for the program, at least, maybe not generally) shouldn't be a part of the story.

BUT

Based on a couple of comments I decided to look up Erik's stats so far this year to see how it compared with what I put together in the previous analysis.

Got dam, boy. You're shooting 30% from 2, 24% from 3, with a 33% eFG this season. Stats aren't everything but at the end of the day the ball has to go in the hole... unless you want to take a role that doesn't involve shooting.

And then I can't naturally help thinking that we are literally living the possibility that a player (and father) who appeared to be of a high major caliber were not, tried to hang on, and created a mutiny that took down a HOF coach and a program (to be fair, I will agree somewhat with people who say HCGM helped the effort).

For what it's worth, I played small college and I assume I am approximately the elder Stevenson's age so I can somewhat empathize with the aspiration.

But man... if you're not good enough, you're not good enough. And if you're off a foot to the left or right on half your damn shots, you're not good enough

To the older Stevenson, as coach I would tell him (after I told him where he could shove his opinion) to watch game tape of the 2012-2016 teams and compare it to the recent team's style of play. A stark contrast.

Like I said - this is random but I was shocked. Even though I don't like the kid, his demeanor, his father, or their effect on the program... I grudgingly had to admit that I thought he was going to have better stats after leaving and be able to point to them.

He does not. Or in other terms, it looks like he was going to be the first multi-year starter for Marshall in his entire tenure at WSU that didn't play high level pro ball.

[ShockerFever]

Don’t worry. Erik will turn it around and lead his team to 25 wins this year

[pogo]

Don’t worry. Erik will turn it around and lead his team to 25 wins this year

I see what you did there

[AZ Shocker]

He's just all in his head. Good athletic...but thinks too much. All in his head. The words "tries too hard" comes to mind.

[molly jabali]

To me, BEFORE he left, he carried himself with an undeserved swag.....he's where he needs to be....where Dad can fix hid PB and J squares and remind him of how the world has it out for him...

[pogo]

He's just all in his head. Good athletic...but thinks too much. All in his head. The words "tries too hard" comes to mind.

Actually to use your words "Head case" comes to my mind. I agree with MJ in that his swagger was undeserved and I didn't like the "hard fouls" he committed on a couple of occasions last year. Cheap and dirty comes to mind as well

[shock]

To me, BEFORE he left, he carried himself with an undeserved swag.....he's where he needs to be....where Dad can fix hid PB and J squares and remind him of how the world has it out for him...

He doesn’t eat pb&j, remember?

[molly jabali]

He doesn’t eat pb&j, remember?

oH, MY!!!! TOTALLY forgot about that!!!!!!!!!!:)

[asiseeit]

Could someone present the specific FACTS about what ES did ? I'm not here to defend him cause I don't
know any "facts" but he was not the only player to transfer. What were his specific comments or actions
that has gotten into so many heads? As far as his dad I don't care about his actions and comments only
Eric's if he made damaging remarks to / about the program. What were they exactly cause I truly do not know.
As a player I just know he always gave a lot of effort but was an inconsistent shooter. Had good games and
bad like anyone else.

[Good News]

Could someone present the specific FACTS about what ES did ? I'm not here to defend him cause I don't
know any "facts" but he was not the only player to transfer. What were his specific comments or actions
that has gotten into so many heads? As far as his dad I don't care about his actions and comments only
Eric's if he made damaging remarks to / about the program. What were they exactly cause I truly do not know.
As a player I just know he always gave a lot of effort but was an inconsistent shooter. Had good games and
bad like anyone else.

Do I need to create a graphic novel? Go back 8 posts.

[wichshock65]

To me, BEFORE he left, he carried himself with an undeserved swag.....he's where he needs to be....where Dad can fix hid PB and J squares and remind him of how the world has it out for him...

Racist.