Austin Leading Rebounder - What Say You?

Haws was not the only one to get a little respect recently.



The forgotten and under appreciated rebounding machine got some, too.

Austin is 1. Not forgotten 2. Not a rebounding "machine"

It is interesting that Sports Illustrated would project him as the #2 rebounder in the country.

He was second on the team last year in average per game; however, he had a lot fewer minutes than Collingsworth.

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I'd settle for him not making us play 4v5 when we're on offense.

Keep in mind Austins minutes quite often were not due to having other players in there to do his job (or rather stated there wasn't a better option that cost him minutes last year), but that he was in foul trouble.

I don't anticipate his minutes will improve and there are other bigs that will get minutes. Austin often played the 4 with Mika as the 5, but now we have guys that can play the 4 (the way our offense is meant to) stretch 4 and we are in need of 5s, something that Austin has struggled to play. I expect as a senior he'll be improved, but he's not going to surprise us and become a dominant scorer or rebounder. Good rebounder, yes.. glass cleaner.. no..



Next year with a more experienced Aytes, Kaufusi, Kyle Davis (very underrated transfer... I would have traded Carlino for Davis last year in a heartbeat.. so we actually improve getting more than we lost... unfortunately we have to wait a year to see the benefit), Nielsen, and senior Collinsworth.. we will be an amazing rebounding team. This year we will be so-so and our frontcourt will cost us some games. I am happy to see some depth; foul trouble or injury (Mikas eye) crushed us in some games where otherwise we would have put the game away sooner, or we would have won where we actually lost (one more big against Iowa State for example)

Um, if Austin is getting significant minutes this year then we're still not an above average team. Offense is 4 on 5 with him on the floor. And he doesn't change shots on D or stay in front of his man w/o fouling so I'm not a fan of him being a "machine" of anything if we are to progress this year.

He ended on a high note last season when it came to rebounding. Was the only thing he was doing really well. Hope he can keep it going. At his height he should be grabbing them right and left.



I really want to like Austin. I really want him to light it up. His first year he was a bright spot.



He gives it his all. You can count on that.



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Gunk wrote:
He ended on a high note last season when it came to rebounding. Was the only thing he was doing really well. Hope he can keep it going. At his height he should be grabbing them right and left.



I really want to like Austin. I really want him to light it up. His first year he was a bright spot.



He gives it his all. You can count on that.



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Sounds like a guy who should go play for Bronco!

mizzoucoug wrote:

He ended on a high note last season when it came to rebounding. Was the only thing he was doing really well. Hope he can keep it going. At his height he should be grabbing them right and left.



I really want to like Austin. I really want him to light it up. His first year he was a bright spot.



He gives it his all. You can count on that.



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Sounds like a guy who should go play for Bronco!

why would he do that? He can play for Rose who doesn't require as much intensity from his players!