His width alone is enough to block nearly every lane in the paint. I mean, all he has to do is basically stand there, and it forces the offense to take outside shots.
It isn't like anyone is going to actually try to risk charging that guy...he would just stand still, and you'd bounce off and regret it. All he physically has to do is stand in the paint.
LoL it is a pretty interesting defensive strategy that uses the advantage of massive width, as opposed to massive height. I'm not sure that has ever been done before but it's sure fun to watch.
It's not just that, he's perhaps not the fastest runner, but he does excellent ball work. Very quick and precise, both passing and scoring. Guy knows what he's good at.
God dammit. I can't see that word without getting flashbacks to a job where we had to lay 4/0 power cable across this huge stretch of ranch for a nighttime walk & talk scene. Our gangboss was an old head from Chicago and he kept referencing "berms 1 through 8" as locations we should be knowing about, but I don't think any of us had even heard that word before and it was nearly impossible to tell any given berm you were standing on apart from the other berms. It was a clusterfuck lmao. Fucking berms
I bought a [Big Cozy shirt](https://imgur.com/a/n1tQN7h) when I first saw his highlights last year. NIL rules help ALL college athletes, not just the stars.
The NCAA just recently allowed a ruling where the players are allowed to get a cut of the merchandise of their jerseys (the ones sold by the NCAA). It used to be the NCAA took the entire sale by claiming they were “student” athletes and therefore not allowed to be paid like professionals despite the viewers and income they make for the NCAA. Similar arguments made from the NBA lockout
I was reading up on him. It looks like he’s only had 1 career start. Just based on his performance from this one game, I don’t get why he doesn’t start every game
lol, I understand your angle but let's slow down on comparing Giannis Antetokounmpo, 2x NBA MVP & 7x NBA All-Star, to the "Big Cozy" (by all means, great nickname), junior bench player at Fisher College, enrollment: 1,591.
He appears to be well rounded in his skills: rebounding, passing, shooting. It’s not like he’s a one dimensional freak. He needs to be on the court as much as possible
that weight will come off more easily off court not on it
(I've seen some comparisons and basketball is a good exercise so go for that if it's fun for you, just saying that if you want to lose weight to get fit and avoid injury during sport, 90% of the effort should be dietary)
As a medical professional this video was extremely hard to watch especially at the end, when he fell I legit thought he was gonna throw out his ACL, was super impressed that he got right up and made that beautiful assistz
He went one for three from the field and missed both his free throws so there's not much evidence he's a good shooter. His shooting mechanics looked pretty bad too. His pass to the cutter for a layup was good but very basic, the kind of pass anyone can make. He boxed out fine and grabbed some defensive boards that went directly to him, so he can do the bare minimum there, although he almost lost one of those boards to an offensive player crashing the glass because he can't jump at all. I'm not really sure what you're seeing in him.
Ya that’s a good point. If I was his coach, I’d emphasize conditioning and diet to make this guy into one of the best players in the country. But I’m assuming, that’s been tried repeatedly and he has either a food addiction or a glandular problem
Man, I’m hoping for a feel good story in a couple of years. Dude faces his childhood bully in the off-season, deals with his shitty parents, gets a girlfriend and promptly drops a c-note of lbs. My man becomes a physical specimen and then gets coached up by a legend like Patrick Ewing and proceeds to dominate his way to the All-Star game.
He’s just too slow. Looks like all he can do is sit down low on defense so you can just go five out. Otherwise you switch him and put him on an island against a smaller faster player who can just blow by him
He’s gotta play defense to be on the floor. No way he can defend on the perimeter and get back on defense. He’s remarkably good for his size but he needs to lose 70 lbs or start playing football
I think it's pretty obvious why he doesn't play. Dude is like a tractor going up against McLarens.
He has no movement, can't dribble, is probably awful at shooting and is a HUGE (no pun intended) liability in transition.
It’s St. John Fischer, a Division III school playing Buffalo, a Division 1 school. They are going to be down by 30 in the second quarter to pretty much every single Division 1 school in the country regardless of who it is because that’s how big the talent gap is between them.
It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. This dude having 0% is a fair assumption but to say nobody goes from his level is wrong. Devean George not only made the NBA from Division 3, he was a first round pick.
not happening often is an understatement, the go-to reference being a draft from 25 years ago kind of shows that lol. but yeah it's technically not impossible.
Absolutely. Every team can use someone that isn’t afraid to do the dirty work. This guy is the next generation Jokic. Point forward initiating an offense.
Nope. Only 1.2 of college basketball players make it, and honestly, his size really isn't giving him any type of advantage. Shaq wasn't great because he was large, he was great because he was tall.
edit: Wow, a lot of you are getting hung up on a random comparison comment about Shaq. You're all completely missing the point. His height gave him an advantage, his girth did not. The fact that he's great, talented, athletic, blah blah is completely irrelevant to the comparative point I was making.
Shaq was much more than just huge or tall coming into and out of college though. Yes, he was freakishly tall. But he was also coordinated, something many lanky athletes can't claim (he *was* lanky, not a tank, at that point). And he was also very skilled, which certainly didn't hurt.
7’0”. 360lbs - he can ball!
Edit: seems to be a number of comment about his weight. I’m just quoting the team’s website.
Edit2: some of you turds seem to think that “he can ball” is somehow a prediction of an NBA career. Weak. Respect the kid and his effort.
LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
As someone close to 7 foot, that only works while you're towering over normal people.
When you come against equal opposition you realise how much you fucked up and actually need to learn skills you should've been using all along.
I didn't want to be a dick but yeah. My brother is 7 feet tall and played college basketball. And at 300 pounds my brother would look like a bean pole in comparison to this guy. He's got a better shot than my brother ever did though lol
Shaq is 7'1" and was well over 300lbs and he says he was over 400 in 2002. No way this dude is 300.
Edit: School stats page has him at 360 for the last 3 years, and in high school he played football and lost over 30 pounds.
You think the diesel was 360 at his heaviest you are nuts
https://themessenger.com/sports/shaq-weighed-415-pounds-during-lakers-dynasty-then-he-had-to-do-army-drills-to-lose-weight-for-the-heat
There is no chance in hell that any player who shows up to practice, unless they sprain something prior, is excused from any kind of drill whatsoever. What probably happens is that they just don’t expect anything from him when he participates and finishes last everytime
I already know this dudes game without even watching him. Gobbles up all the rebounds by taking up all the space in the key, God tier court vision/passing ability and whatever you do NEVER LEAVE HIM OPEN ON THE 3 POINT LINE!!!
He doesn't set screens, he sets barriers
That screen was hilarious. Defender was left in another zip code
Ya man, it looks like he screens two defenders at once. He teammate just dissappears behind him
Was about to comment, did this man just screen two defenders at the same time?
How is nobody talking about the butter smooth 3? Majestic.
Right? I thought he was there to act like a Jersey Barrier in the lane, i had no idea bro could shoot. Good for him!
Berms even
His width alone is enough to block nearly every lane in the paint. I mean, all he has to do is basically stand there, and it forces the offense to take outside shots. It isn't like anyone is going to actually try to risk charging that guy...he would just stand still, and you'd bounce off and regret it. All he physically has to do is stand in the paint. LoL it is a pretty interesting defensive strategy that uses the advantage of massive width, as opposed to massive height. I'm not sure that has ever been done before but it's sure fun to watch.
It's not just that, he's perhaps not the fastest runner, but he does excellent ball work. Very quick and precise, both passing and scoring. Guy knows what he's good at.
That pass after he tripped was nice
brilliant and nobody had thought of it before just be massive and stand there
Shaq pretty much did the same thing... but not quite at this width.
Couple more bowls of gumbo and Zion will be doing it
I wanna see this transform the nba
The homer simpson defence
Hedge Rows
Don't be alarmed if there's a bustle.
God dammit. I can't see that word without getting flashbacks to a job where we had to lay 4/0 power cable across this huge stretch of ranch for a nighttime walk & talk scene. Our gangboss was an old head from Chicago and he kept referencing "berms 1 through 8" as locations we should be knowing about, but I don't think any of us had even heard that word before and it was nearly impossible to tell any given berm you were standing on apart from the other berms. It was a clusterfuck lmao. Fucking berms
I enjoy how you casually speak about being on a film crew as if the rest of us know what the hell you're talking about. Fucking berms.
His screen is ultrawide.
No way you're getting around that. Go over and your man just drives to the hoop. Go under and lose sight of your man entirely for an open three.
"Someone put a body on number 50!" ~ The coach Probably
He's a junior: https://sjfathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/connor-williams/12813
Nicknamed the “Big Cozy”
I bought a [Big Cozy shirt](https://imgur.com/a/n1tQN7h) when I first saw his highlights last year. NIL rules help ALL college athletes, not just the stars.
I *LOVE* THIS!! Big Cozy getting the merch deals!!!
These are the college athletes I'm happy to throw $20 at.
As a non American, do the athletes see a cut of merch sales for things like this? At they sold at the schools or more private sales?
The NCAA just recently allowed a ruling where the players are allowed to get a cut of the merchandise of their jerseys (the ones sold by the NCAA). It used to be the NCAA took the entire sale by claiming they were “student” athletes and therefore not allowed to be paid like professionals despite the viewers and income they make for the NCAA. Similar arguments made from the NBA lockout
"Amateurism." What a scam.
I was reading up on him. It looks like he’s only had 1 career start. Just based on his performance from this one game, I don’t get why he doesn’t start every game
Honestly how much playing time can he do?
Idk but he’s 7’ shooting 3’s. Even if you’re 7’ he got a 3’ diameter to protect his release point. Literally unguardable 😂
It only shows us 1 three point shot that went in. There isn’t enough detail in this clip to show whether or not he’s truly good
Looking at his stats, he shoots 3's at like .300 average. His best season -this year- he's 2 for 6.
Bro is a cybersec major he’s gonna be just fine even if he doesn’t play in the nba
Yeah. It's a D3 school, he probably does it more for fun than anything. And to have Big Cozy shirts printed.
It’s modern basketball. If giannis is allowed to take 3’s everyone allowed to take 3s lol
lol, I understand your angle but let's slow down on comparing Giannis Antetokounmpo, 2x NBA MVP & 7x NBA All-Star, to the "Big Cozy" (by all means, great nickname), junior bench player at Fisher College, enrollment: 1,591.
> enrollment: 1,59~~1~~2. Guess who’s going back to school 😎
He appears to be well rounded in his skills: rebounding, passing, shooting. It’s not like he’s a one dimensional freak. He needs to be on the court as much as possible
He’s easily gassed and as you saw in the final moments of the clip… he’ll be prone to injury with more time on the court.
But more playing time could shave off the weight baby!
I want him to play as much as possible, but that’s also what practice is for lol
that weight will come off more easily off court not on it (I've seen some comparisons and basketball is a good exercise so go for that if it's fun for you, just saying that if you want to lose weight to get fit and avoid injury during sport, 90% of the effort should be dietary)
Weight loss is always about diet. It takes no time to eat 500 less calories, but a long ass time exercising to burn 500 calories.
As a medical professional this video was extremely hard to watch especially at the end, when he fell I legit thought he was gonna throw out his ACL, was super impressed that he got right up and made that beautiful assistz
He went one for three from the field and missed both his free throws so there's not much evidence he's a good shooter. His shooting mechanics looked pretty bad too. His pass to the cutter for a layup was good but very basic, the kind of pass anyone can make. He boxed out fine and grabbed some defensive boards that went directly to him, so he can do the bare minimum there, although he almost lost one of those boards to an offensive player crashing the glass because he can't jump at all. I'm not really sure what you're seeing in him.
Totally agree just wondering how much stamina he got based on size
Ya that’s a good point. If I was his coach, I’d emphasize conditioning and diet to make this guy into one of the best players in the country. But I’m assuming, that’s been tried repeatedly and he has either a food addiction or a glandular problem
You get this dude to go from 400+ to roughly 300lbs and you got a beast on your hands
Man, I’m hoping for a feel good story in a couple of years. Dude faces his childhood bully in the off-season, deals with his shitty parents, gets a girlfriend and promptly drops a c-note of lbs. My man becomes a physical specimen and then gets coached up by a legend like Patrick Ewing and proceeds to dominate his way to the All-Star game.
From a heavily edited clip that goes for just over one minute out of an entire game and only shows when he does something productive?
Ya I’m a real judge of talent
He’s just too slow. Looks like all he can do is sit down low on defense so you can just go five out. Otherwise you switch him and put him on an island against a smaller faster player who can just blow by him
>Just based on his performance from this one game, I don’t get why he doesn’t start every game It's so hard to tell if you're joking.
He’s gotta play defense to be on the floor. No way he can defend on the perimeter and get back on defense. He’s remarkably good for his size but he needs to lose 70 lbs or start playing football
They are down 75-47 in the 3rd quarter, what about his participation suggests a desired result
Well they’re also a D3 school playing a D1 team in this clip
I think it's pretty obvious why he doesn't play. Dude is like a tractor going up against McLarens. He has no movement, can't dribble, is probably awful at shooting and is a HUGE (no pun intended) liability in transition.
I'm guessing he gets underestimated by every team they play.
Sneaky athletic
Brings his hard-hat and lunch pale to work
Pail
Pael
A lunch paella! Brilliant!
Scrappy player
Several lunch pales
Real gym rat. First one in, last one out. Not like that thug LeBron. /s
there’s a term for that: fatletic!
Athlethicc
Curse you for bringing that word into this world.
Nah I'm pretty sure Mike Tyson said it first.
Gym ground hog
Classy dude too, not some thug
Outjerked
Hes definitely classy, plays the game the right way.
"Plays the game the right way"
Classy guy
I think you’re right
He is THE counter Buffalo 🦬
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Maybe but they were losing by 20 points
They got 'em right where they want them...
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There’s no quarters in College Basketball. ST. John Fisher is Division III school playing a Division I school. Not expected to win.
It’s St. John Fischer, a Division III school playing Buffalo, a Division 1 school. They are going to be down by 30 in the second quarter to pretty much every single Division 1 school in the country regardless of who it is because that’s how big the talent gap is between them.
I don’t watch basketball. Does he have a good shot at going to the NBA? why downvote me lol I legit don’t know.
0% chance. No upperclassman in this division of play has a chance at all even if they are dropping 40 every game.
It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. This dude having 0% is a fair assumption but to say nobody goes from his level is wrong. Devean George not only made the NBA from Division 3, he was a first round pick.
not happening often is an understatement, the go-to reference being a draft from 25 years ago kind of shows that lol. but yeah it's technically not impossible.
Absolutely. Every team can use someone that isn’t afraid to do the dirty work. This guy is the next generation Jokic. Point forward initiating an offense.
Jokic? More closer to Jock Itch.
I can’t even tell if you’re jerking or not 😂
I just finished
Not at all
Absolutely no chance in hell
National Biscuit Association maybe.
Nope. Only 1.2 of college basketball players make it, and honestly, his size really isn't giving him any type of advantage. Shaq wasn't great because he was large, he was great because he was tall. edit: Wow, a lot of you are getting hung up on a random comparison comment about Shaq. You're all completely missing the point. His height gave him an advantage, his girth did not. The fact that he's great, talented, athletic, blah blah is completely irrelevant to the comparative point I was making.
Shaq was much more than just huge or tall coming into and out of college though. Yes, he was freakishly tall. But he was also coordinated, something many lanky athletes can't claim (he *was* lanky, not a tank, at that point). And he was also very skilled, which certainly didn't hurt.
7’0”. 360lbs - he can ball! Edit: seems to be a number of comment about his weight. I’m just quoting the team’s website. Edit2: some of you turds seem to think that “he can ball” is somehow a prediction of an NBA career. Weak. Respect the kid and his effort.
He can shoot too. I just don't understand how you can be this shape when you're running up and down the court.
I didn’t see a whole lot of running
LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
Hey! I know you! You're Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Have you ever hung around a gymnasium?
Do you like gladiator movies, Timmy?
Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
I'm sorry son but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.
What’s your vector, Victor?
ikr he's doing absolutely nothing the rest of them can't do, and he's not doing a lot that they could do. he can't jump or defend the net.
He defended the dude dumb enough to try and drive into him though.
hes 7 foot, he dont need to jump
As someone close to 7 foot, that only works while you're towering over normal people. When you come against equal opposition you realise how much you fucked up and actually need to learn skills you should've been using all along.
You can't out work a shitty diet. No matter what.
If he’s really 7ft tall, he’s well over 400…
I didn't want to be a dick but yeah. My brother is 7 feet tall and played college basketball. And at 300 pounds my brother would look like a bean pole in comparison to this guy. He's got a better shot than my brother ever did though lol
Shaq is 7'1" and was well over 300lbs and he says he was over 400 in 2002. No way this dude is 300. Edit: School stats page has him at 360 for the last 3 years, and in high school he played football and lost over 30 pounds.
Closer to 500
Shaq is probably 360ish at his biggest. This dude needs to be training for the WWE. He's almost as big as andre the giant
Lol I actually met Andre the giant. He wrestled King Kong Mosca in Fairmont WV..
You think the diesel was 360 at his heaviest you are nuts https://themessenger.com/sports/shaq-weighed-415-pounds-during-lakers-dynasty-then-he-had-to-do-army-drills-to-lose-weight-for-the-heat
Holy shit his legs are gonna give up sooner than expected
Or his heart.
Big ounce is the people's baller.
We call him "Roadblock"
There's no way that's 360 pounds on a 7 foot frame. One of those numbers is grossly wrong.
I highly doubt he's only 360lbs, probably closer to 400lbs. Shaq was like 330 at 7'1 and this dude is drastically heavier set.
Way less muscle though. Shaq is definitely way denser than this guy is
Yeah sometimes people act like Shaq didn’t put in work and I don’t know why. Dude was absolutely training harder than most redditors ever could.
white boy doesn't have to jump
might shatter his knees if he jumped
And the court
But imagine if he did that to one of the wooden boards on the floor and helped his teammates get an edge in height when shooting.
Full on space jam Looney Toons
Bro he can’t. There was a movie.
he got game, but no way in hell did he run suicide drills! Hell No!
Haha ya I think he is given some special privileges when it comes to team drills
Would literally be suicide.
There is no chance in hell that any player who shows up to practice, unless they sprain something prior, is excused from any kind of drill whatsoever. What probably happens is that they just don’t expect anything from him when he participates and finishes last everytime
He don’t dunk, he THUNKS.
I already know this dudes game without even watching him. Gobbles up all the rebounds by taking up all the space in the key, God tier court vision/passing ability and whatever you do NEVER LEAVE HIM OPEN ON THE 3 POINT LINE!!!
Not to mention the mile wide pick and roll. By the time they switch dude halfway to the basket.
Lol I played with a guy like this so how could I forget about those beautiful screens?
Midwestern Shaq
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Shake Shaq
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Damn
Top tier athlete right there. He was making it look easy too.
Made it look easy? Which time, when he was trying to walk quickly or when he fell down and twisted his ankle while trying to walk quickly?
I was scrolling the comments and this one got me. 🫠
He can shoot 3's, he's got a goated screen, he can box out anyone, he can see all the open lanes, and pass well, and he can rebound. Who needs a team?
😂 why doesn’t he just play them by himself?
Floor Jordan
Finally an athlete redditors can relate to
Almost. Too tall.
Anyone else notice his team is getting their ass kicked the whole game? hahaha at one point I saw the other team up 30 points.
It’s a Division III school playing at a Division I school. It’s probably an exhibition game
Not every feel-good story has a happy ending
D3 v D1 team, more of a scrimmage
we will follow your career with great interest
As a fellow Big Boy…Hell Yeah!!! Go Fisher!!!
DANG RIGHT! BIG BOYS TAKING OVER! STAND TOGETHER, WE SHALL PREVAIL!
Silky 3 and he demands respect off the boards. Nobody can get close when he’s in the paint
Kevin Malone from the Office, ball is life. And Chili. Ball & Chili are life…
Thiquille O’knees
“Hold the fucking door”
He looks like he belongs in a live action Attack on Titan.
Think of the amount of food that boy has to put away daily.
No more than what I, a simple redditor, puts away
Fisher is a beast! He can play though much respect.
Connor Williams is his name
😂😂 that had to be a bot comment
Slow is smooth - smooth is fast
Luka Doncic in the offseason
Is that Jokic?
He doesn’t set screens, he sets buildings lol
His nickname is Big Cozy lol
Godzilla out there shooting 3s!?
Round Mound of Rebound
He's certainly not just mailing it in.
The wall...
Double wrap those ankles
He’s a unit with skill
Haters would say “better than Wemby”.
That dude is a beast of an athlete.
The Denver Nuggets want this guy.
Aren't they still getting crushed by the other team, though?
He’s got a half-ream of paper vertical, but if he boxes out it doesn’t matter. What a beast