Nice arc on his shot now. He changed something up over the summer. Looks more fluid and relaxed.
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āAvailableā and āstrong enough to use the wrist in a D1 basketball gameā are different. Hoping whenever Franz is back on the court he looks healthy and is everything we hoped heād be skill wise.
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I would hope those terms mean exactly the same thing given the context.
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Well, donāt rush him back but I am super excited to see how the team looks if Wagner lives up to his billing, especially as a shooter. Pick your poison on offense with that amount of shooting around X/T. Could be a massive upgrade on offense and a sizeable one on defense, given Nunezā struggles so far.
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Yea I felt like Johns was our X factor this year. So far we havenāt needed him much but we will come conference season.
When I see Johns the last thing I think is fluid.
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I was clearly referring to X.
If you guys saw this McCormick tweet he frames it like Franz will have an impact in Atlantis.
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Instead it seems to be Brooks!
Hope he plays this week. Hard to believe after a fun start that weāre adding this dude to our squad:
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Going to be weird seeing his 6ā9" size out there. With Nunez and the three guard lineups, Mās been pretty small so far.
Being at the game Friday and seeing Franz in street clothes, that was the one thing that stood out is that he is tall!
Itās Strange, I believe there is a beast in there. Wish heād let it loose.
I agree, Spike. Franz is a young man with great talent and excellent skills. He can certainly shoot. He handles it well, certainly for a kid who is 6ā9. He can create for himself and take it to the hole, and he can defend. He will be a great addition to a fun group of guys and a team that is really starting to gel already.
But, letās all understand, as much as he can help this team, it will be a process. Here is a young man (very young) who is becoming acclimated to American culture while living thousands of miles away from home, learning how to fit in with his teammates, still in the process of getting stronger so he can be effective in big time college basketball, in the B1G, and who is going to have to get into game shape and regain strength in his right wrist and hand. This is a process and there will be ups and downs.
As I have said before, we will have to be patient. From what I have seen from him on film and from what Iāve seen as Iāve watched this team through the first four games, Franz will be a starterā¦eventually. I believe that. Maybe heāll be a starter quite soon. Maybe it will take a little longer than some of us would hope for.
But letās not forget that there will be some highs, a lot of them I hope, and some lows. We will have to be patient. I think by the end of the year our starting lineup could be a LOT of fun to watch, and that we will have some really solid subs as part of our rotation. Just my thoughts, and yes, I know Iāve expressed similar thoughts before.
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I would gladly take freshman year Stauskus level production from Franz at this point. He may be capable of more, but even that would be a huge boost for the offense.
He has not shot a basketball in a month. Donāt expect him to come in and drain threes.
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Form shooting first, then free throws, then 18 footers. Itās a process. I just hope we all understand that! 
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Freshman year Stauskas on O would be a best case scenario
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Is āfreshman year Stauskasā considered some sort of limited ceiling? Dude played heavy minutes for a Final Four team and shot 50% on twos and 44% on threes. That is about as good as it gets for a freshman year.
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If Franz is freshman year Stauskas I think weād be a top 15 team easily
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