A player with so many honors (All-BIG EAST Conference first team for the second straight season. USBWA First Team…) should have a good professional career...
As we can read in the Fighting Irish web site, "he has scored in double-figures in all but two games this season. Overall this season, Harangody has reached double figures in 28 of 30 games. He has posted 21 double-doubles this season… Harangody has reached the 30-point plateau on five occasions during the '08-'09 campaign. His high-water mark was a 32-point effort against Louisville. He has grabbed 15 or more rebounds 10 times during the season, including a season-best 17 boards on three occasions. After averaging 25.2 points and 12.8 rebounds in 18 BIG EAST games this season, Harangody became the first player in league history to lead the conference in scoring in back-to-back seasons. As a sophomore in 2007-08, he averaged 23.3 points and 11.3 rebounds in league play en route to being named the BIG EAST Player of the Year. In his three-year BIG EAST career, Harangody has scored 1,031 points (19.9 ppg) in 52 league contests. Only three other players in BIG EAST history - Ray Allen (Connecticut), Richard Hamilton (Connecticut) and Pat Garrity (Notre Dame) - have scored more than 1,000 points in three seasons."
He’s actually playing the NIT tournament with his Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and they are already one step from the Final Four.
But although he’s so well considered in the NCAA basketball, not many people think Harangody's NBA future is clear. Maybe being an undersized center with limited athleticism brings doubts over him (take a look at my old friend Ryan Mendez’s opinion)
Can he play against NBA players? Can he develop his game to achieve a role in The League? As I won’t have to decide about those questions, we can just watch his video and comment about it.
The first thing I like about him is that he’s got a lot of ways to score. Hooks (take a look at his pictures when he was a kid… and you’ll know where that hook comes from), mid range shots, one on one from the high post, fade away jumpers, threes, makes over 75% of his free throws… and although his style is a little bit unorthodox is clearly effective.
His Basketball IQ is really high. He knows how to play without the ball, he plays well against helps, and his positioning on the court is great. That’s not very common in young players nowadays… and he can beat more athletic players that way.
He’s hard on defense, I’ve watched him playing against bigger, stronger and faster players, and he beats them anyway…
But, will he be able to do it at the next level? I think so, but in case he can’t, there would be a place in my teams for him…
As we can read in the Fighting Irish web site, "he has scored in double-figures in all but two games this season. Overall this season, Harangody has reached double figures in 28 of 30 games. He has posted 21 double-doubles this season… Harangody has reached the 30-point plateau on five occasions during the '08-'09 campaign. His high-water mark was a 32-point effort against Louisville. He has grabbed 15 or more rebounds 10 times during the season, including a season-best 17 boards on three occasions. After averaging 25.2 points and 12.8 rebounds in 18 BIG EAST games this season, Harangody became the first player in league history to lead the conference in scoring in back-to-back seasons. As a sophomore in 2007-08, he averaged 23.3 points and 11.3 rebounds in league play en route to being named the BIG EAST Player of the Year. In his three-year BIG EAST career, Harangody has scored 1,031 points (19.9 ppg) in 52 league contests. Only three other players in BIG EAST history - Ray Allen (Connecticut), Richard Hamilton (Connecticut) and Pat Garrity (Notre Dame) - have scored more than 1,000 points in three seasons."
He’s actually playing the NIT tournament with his Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and they are already one step from the Final Four.
But although he’s so well considered in the NCAA basketball, not many people think Harangody's NBA future is clear. Maybe being an undersized center with limited athleticism brings doubts over him (take a look at my old friend Ryan Mendez’s opinion)
Can he play against NBA players? Can he develop his game to achieve a role in The League? As I won’t have to decide about those questions, we can just watch his video and comment about it.
The first thing I like about him is that he’s got a lot of ways to score. Hooks (take a look at his pictures when he was a kid… and you’ll know where that hook comes from), mid range shots, one on one from the high post, fade away jumpers, threes, makes over 75% of his free throws… and although his style is a little bit unorthodox is clearly effective.
His Basketball IQ is really high. He knows how to play without the ball, he plays well against helps, and his positioning on the court is great. That’s not very common in young players nowadays… and he can beat more athletic players that way.
He’s hard on defense, I’ve watched him playing against bigger, stronger and faster players, and he beats them anyway…
But, will he be able to do it at the next level? I think so, but in case he can’t, there would be a place in my teams for him…
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