DRC: Breaking news -- UNT has lost Gibson for season

[Brett Vito]

DRC:

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2017/11/15/breaking-news-gibson-season

[Cerebus]

Ugh.

[EagleMBA]

From the postgame comments you could feel this blow coming. At least there should be no problem with the NCAA on getting him a medical redshirt. Prayers for a successful surgery and a complete recovery for Umoja.

[Andrew]

And there goes our quickest player and best defender. That’s a huge blow to our season. 

[Green92]

Well, dang. 

[Cooley]

20 minutes ago, Andrew said:

And there goes our quickest player and best defender. That’s a huge blow to our season. 

Andrew you must be confusing him and Woolridge. This ain’t even close. 

[Mean_Green09]

12 minutes ago, Cooley said:

Andrew you must be confusing him and Woolridge. This ain’t even close. 

Only halfway confused. Woolridge is the quickest, but Gibson was the best on/ball defender 

[KRAM1]

Big loss. All the best for a full and speedy recovery!

[Andrew]

1 hour ago, Cooley said:

Andrew you must be confusing him and Woolridge. This ain’t even close. 

I can only compare it one game, but Gibson was the fastest player up and down all night and he played amazing D. Holston is a great defender as well, but Gibson can stay in front of any guard in the conference I would think. I haven’t seen many quicker since the early 90s.

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

2 hours ago, Mean_Green09 said:

Only halfway confused. Woolridge is the quickest, but Gibson was the best on/ball defender 

I would definitely argue he's the best defender as well. At least from what we've seen so far. 

[Mean_Green09]

12 minutes ago, ChristopherRyanWilkes said:

I would definitely argue he's the best defender as well. At least from what we've seen so far. 

And that’s no knock on Woolridge. I view Woolridge as an opportunity defender. He anticipates really well and has quick hands. 

I viewed Gibson as an in your grill defender. The type that doesn’t give you space. Always attacking you. 

Both guys are quick. Gibson probably had quicker feet could move laterally faster, but he isn’t faster than Woolridge with the ball in his hands. In fact I don’t think there are many guys in the country who can get up the floor faster than Woolridge when handling the ball. 

Either way we will miss Gibson’s scoring a lot, but may miss his ball handling more.