Frank has moments of great plays and moments where you remember that he's just a freshman. Once he tunes his skills and develops more he'll be scary good!

Alright, time to sit Custer, Townes and Krutwig. Let the others finish it off and manage the finish.

Why is Aher shooting threes against a team where no one is taller than he is?

Attack the basket, Aher.

I was certainly hoping to see more out of him tonight. When Lucas comes back, Aher is going to be our 10th man. That's so surprising to me. I really hope he can stay focused and improve into conference play.

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Call me naive, but I'm not ready to give up on Aher yet for this season. I think if he can get his confidence up and play like he did against Maryland he'll be solid. Right now, he seems a tad off in his offensive flow.

On top of that, I think if he can develop a jump shot or get in a groove shooting over the next year or two, he can be a game changing player. We've all seen how athletic and tough he is to defend going to the rim, but imagine what it'd look like if you suddenly had to respect a jump shot.

"Giving up" on him this year is relative to what your expectations for him were going into this year. For some reason, he was really hyped by the players/insiders as someone who was going to be able to be plugged right in and have a dynamic impact right out of the gate. If your expectation was that (like mine was), then I think it's safe to say you can give up on that for him this year. We are through 11 or so games, which is a solid sampling, and he has not proven to be anywhere near the level of our first four current guys (Custer, Townes, Krutwig, Williamson), or the guys' that departed from last year's team (Ingram, Richardson, Jackson). And I'm not comparing him to any type of player any of those players are/were -- I'm just stating that he hasn't shown the ability to impact a game to the level of any of those seven. In terms of pure positive impact those guys brought/bring to the team, Aher would be last on that list right now.

That's not to say he can't improve and provide us some solid minutes this year - which is my new expectation for him. t just appears he might be a year off, progress-wise, from being what many of us thought he was going to be this season.

It goes to show you never know what a player is going to be until he plays some actual games with the team. When we signed Krutwig I thought he was going to be a contributor for us by his sophomore/junior season.... but three games into his freshmen year, he surpassed, by far, what I think everyone thought he was going to be.

I like Aher but it doesn't seem like he has any natural basketball instincts. He plays like he is a Japanese teenage girl learning to drive a car; mechanically with no feel for the flow of things.

I don't know if this is fixable. I hope it is but I have my doubts.

Interesting analogy.

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I don't think Swella will be going out for dinner with the Aguak family any time soon,
Don't forget that our players are OUR players and are student athletes, not paid professionals.
Ripping on Aher is also ripping on PM and his judgement in recruitment, etc.
I don't want to get on that wagon.
GO RAMBLERS....

I was one who really expected Aher to make an impact right off the bat. He is very athletic but he has not got his sea legs. He will and I still think the contributions will be this year. The hard work that the team has put in will pay dividends as the season progresses.
But we shall see. I can understand the skepticism though.