Sunday, December 18, 2011

What's up with Brandon Gibson?

At 6-foot-5 and 225 pounds, Louisiana Tech's Brandon Gibson possesses all the physical prerequisites to dominate on the court.

In 2008-09, he got his feet wet as a freshman but then as a sophomore, he was forced to redshirt after breaking a foot.

As a sophomore again in 2010-11, he averaged 9.2 points and 5.1 rebounds a contest but tore an ACL in the first conference game of the season and was lost.

PTW envisioned Gibson immediately taking to new Coach Mike White's up tempo styles offensively and defensively and being the top scorer and rebounder for the Bulldogs.

That hasn't happened.

In 10 games (four starts) so far this season, Gibson is playing just under 15 minutes a game and averaging just 2.6 points and 2.9 rebounds per game, while shooting 17% overall, 16% on trey attempts.

What's the story?

Is he still feeling the effect of his ACL injury?

Maybe we missed it but PTW hasn't seen any coverage regarding Gibson. Louisiana Tech is 6-5 with his minimal contributions -- imagine where they might be with Gibson leading the way.

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