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Apr 12, 2019
11:43:18am

icecougar All-American

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

...even if it was to play 10-12 mins a game like Rose used Dalton Nixon or Luke Worthington. Isaac would’ve been a productive contributor and definitely something BYU needed. In the meantime we had guys like Braiden Shaw, Luke, Dalton (Dalton had his moments during his sophomore year), none of which ever were consistently reliable contributors.

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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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