Video Blog Wednesday – Trying to explan why preseason performances don’t mean anything
A day late, but again pretend it was posted yesterday
By Julien Rodger
Twitter: @ASFW_jrodger
Email: julienrodger@gmail.com (Send me a question, if I get enough I’ll do a mailbag or answer it in a question)
So what about when a player displays skills in the pre-season that he didn’t in the previous year? And I know you said we shouldn’t take poor performances into account either. But if a player can’t display offensive skill against the lesser defense of the pre-season shouldn’t that be a warning sign?
Michael
October 26, 2012 at 8:34 pm
I think bad performances mean a little more than good ones. At the same time, veterans could be working themselves into shape or not giving a shit, and rookies/sophmores could just be struggling because they’re young – as well as the small sample size issues. I do think the best way to look at preseason is to judge how a player is doing something and if they are indeed adding new skills, I just wouldn’t make any conclusions based on any of it
julienrodger
October 26, 2012 at 9:47 pm