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Apr 12, 2019
9:25:49am

MacroCougar Contributor

They gave up on him and pushed him out the door

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Originally posted on Apr 12, 2019 at 9:25:49am

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MacroCougar

Previous username: BuffaloCougar
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Joined: Sep 18, 2008
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The circumstances of the Isaac Neilson transfer puzzled me the most

Run-DMT

4/12/19 8:32am

I was puzzled with Isaac Nielsen situation. However he didn’t accomplish much

Bullrider

4/12/19 8:56am

Played well his junior year at UVU, almost 10 points a game and 9 plus rebounds

basman

4/12/19 9:21am

His senior year minutes were cut because of a senior transfer from Oklahoma...

icecougar

4/12/19 11:31am

He was horrible on defense. There were a few games where opposing teams targeted

BigD Coug

4/12/19 9:00am

They gave up on him and pushed him out the door

MacroCougar

4/12/19 9:25am

He had his moments

thebruce

4/12/19 9:34am

He was a solid player, someone you’d want to have in your rotation...

icecougar

4/12/19 11:43am

WAC all-defensive team, not aware of him being WAC defensive poty. but by

cwilke1

4/12/19 11:43am

Yet most of his advanced defensive stats were way better than Luke or Dalton’s..

icecougar

4/12/19 11:33am

Uh, he was a freshman.

4/12/19 11:44am

Yep. He was basically in the wrong place at the wrong time.

BigD Coug

4/12/19 12:17pm

Problem wasn't ever him and his development. It was how awful the scholarship

4/12/19 2:57pm

They gave his scholarship to another player, which

pajamallama

4/12/19 9:25am

Probably came down to moving on from Shaw or him......looking at the following

mokelembembe

4/12/19 10:34am

that is a good analysis but the first season after transfer was 15-16 not 16-17.

cwilke1

4/12/19 11:35am

Haha....whoops .......thanks for the correction.......

mokelembembe

4/12/19 12:02pm

Agree it was strange. Neilsen was not great but was better than many of the

johnnybyu

4/12/19 10:02am

It may be uncommon at BYU, but players leaving is the norm in college basketball

Thrill

4/12/19 10:50am

no huge backstory - just a scholarship crunch. After they took his scholarship

cwilke1

4/12/19 11:32am

maybe I am mis-remembering. He did have a great junior season at UVU

cwilke1

4/12/19 11:45am

that is an ugly part of college basketball for a coach to pull a guy's

cwilke1

4/12/19 11:39am

Don't Link to the trib 🙁 they are probably more anti byu than Utah is...

Pretorian

4/12/19 11:48am

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