He's great, we're lucky to have him right now.

AggieCrew44 said:

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Jacari Lane is a very nice player and probably the biggest surprise on the team for me. He plays smart and knows his physical limitations

Saying he is better than Wade Taylor is flat out dumbassery

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If Bucky created an entire offense around him chucking 3's it may be debatable

I am glad this team has Lane, he is not better than Wade. Although I hate how Buzz did it, his number is in the rafters

AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Jacari Lane is a very nice player and probably the biggest surprise on the team for me. He plays smart and knows his physical limitations

Saying he is better than Wade Taylor is flat out dumbassery

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If Bucky created an entire offense around him chucking 3's it may be debatable

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Joking or not it's wild people even somewhat think this

Wade taylor with actual shooters around him would be a movie

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Wade was great. He was also a chucker. But a good one at that. Few players are given the leash he was.

If you want to keep this conversation going, don't look up his career 3pt% vs the current roster.

Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Jacari Lane is a very nice player and probably the biggest surprise on the team for me. He plays smart and knows his physical limitations

Saying he is better than Wade Taylor is flat out dumbassery

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If Bucky created an entire offense around him chucking 3's it may be debatable

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Joking or not it's wild people even somewhat think this

Wade taylor with actual shooters around him would be a movie

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Wade was great. He was also a chucker. But a good one at that. Few players are given the leash he was.

If you want to keep this conversation going, don't look up his career 3pt% vs the current roster.

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Shooting percentage is irrelevant when one player was three time all conference and the other scores 7 a game in only 18 min per while the fourth option on offense

Not a soul should think it's even remotely close

AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Jacari Lane is a very nice player and probably the biggest surprise on the team for me. He plays smart and knows his physical limitations

Saying he is better than Wade Taylor is flat out dumbassery

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If Bucky created an entire offense around him chucking 3's it may be debatable

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Joking or not it's wild people even somewhat think this

Wade taylor with actual shooters around him would be a movie

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Wade was great. He was also a chucker. But a good one at that. Few players are given the leash he was.

If you want to keep this conversation going, don't look up his career 3pt% vs the current roster.

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Shooting percentage is irrelevant when one player was three time all conference and the other scores 7 a game in only 18 min per while the fourth option on offense

Not a soul should think it's even remotely close

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CHUCKER

Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Jacari Lane is a very nice player and probably the biggest surprise on the team for me. He plays smart and knows his physical limitations

Saying he is better than Wade Taylor is flat out dumbassery

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If Bucky created an entire offense around him chucking 3's it may be debatable

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Joking or not it's wild people even somewhat think this

Wade taylor with actual shooters around him would be a movie

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Wade was great. He was also a chucker. But a good one at that. Few players are given the leash he was.

If you want to keep this conversation going, don't look up his career 3pt% vs the current roster.

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Shooting percentage is irrelevant when one player was three time all conference and the other scores 7 a game in only 18 min per while the fourth option on offense

Not a soul should think it's even remotely close

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CHUCKER

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AGGIE LEGEND and All-SEC

IDGAF

bobinator said:

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He's not saying Lane is better than Taylor, he's saying he's a better point guard than Taylor, which is a slightly less insane thing to say. It's still insane, but not as insane.

To his credit, Lane is the closest thing we've had to the mythical TexAgs "true point guard." A lightning quick defender who never fouls, is pass first on offense but can also break down the defense off the dribble and shoot 40% from 3 when the spirit moves him.

Also, you don't really have to wonder what Wade Taylor would look like in this system, him and Pop Isaacs are practically the same player.

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Other than the fact that Wade is a much better overall player than Pop, yes

I'd like Lane better if he'd hit last minute FTs…

Ehh I think Wade was much better off the dribble and creating than pop. Scoring numbers sure prob similar

He can't get around screens and he isn't a slasher.

But he can get better.

Thanks Bobinator for the support. I am not saying Taylor was a bad player but I never liked him as a point guard. In my opinion he was a shooting guard.

We discussed it at length the last couple of years. Taylor consistently made errant passes and dumb decisions. He was horrible in the NCAA's. Consistently trying to do too much and never playing within himself. Poor shot selection.

In the Texas game Saturday I didn't think Lane made one poor decision.

Lane plays under control and controls the tempo of the game. They mentioned it in the broadcast. I grew up with the John Stockton's and Maurice Cheeks of the world. Those guys controlled the game and made everyone better.

Idk I think Wade had to create due to necessity. He was the offense. Pop hasn't been forced into that situation on this team. Pop at Creighton was a beast.

He definitely had to do it from necessity. I just think he was better at it, at least off the dribble

He had a lethal first step. He went by people a lot in a Buzz offense lol

Bobinatlor check turnovers and shooting % between the 2.

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We'll never know what Wade could have looked like in a different offensive system but the amount of weight he was asked to carry offensively for several years was absolutely ridiculous. When you're the only one that can make plays, you're often going to try and make too many.

Put Wade in a this kind of an offensive system and we're talking about a completely different kind of player.

Last year Wade averaged 4.5 assists on a team that couldn't shoot and only averaged 11.9 assists as a team. Lane is averaging 3.6 on a team averaging 20.

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Tell the whole story. You hint at it in your first paragraph, but then obfuscate it by just giving the total number of assists.

Wade Taylor averaged a 30% usage rate during his time at A&M. Jacari Lane is sitting at 17% this year. Averaging 1 fewer assist on roughly half the usage is definitely something. Pace of course impacts that and favors Lane (74.6, top 20 this year, vs. 67.4 in 2024 which was outside the top 200, so roughly 7 extra possessions per game), but even accounting for that still has Wade handling the ball and initiating our actions on ~8 extra possessions a game.

I had written more but decided to remove it because it was getting off-topic and I didn't feel like unnecessarily tearing down a great representative of this University. But suffice to say that while I am grateful for the things he accomplished here and the moments he was part of, I don't view Taylor as the same caliber of player as many on this board.

We also have to think about the players surrounding them though. Wade was playing in a stagnant offense with poor shooters, he was the one that had to create and get a shot for someone else basically on his own, and even when he did that his teammates would miss a lot of shots bc they just weren't shooters. No disrespect to lane but he's playing in a system where people are schemed open using better motion and sets, and he's playing with a bunch of great shooters that are very respected by the defense and can hit spot up threes and create some for themselves as well. It's a near perfect situation for someone like lane to facilitate whereas Wade was in pretty much the worst offense possible for a point guard to be efficient

Totally different systems and styles but I have no doubt that if Wade would've played in Buckyball he'd been great. Wade was great at getting to the line and making free throws with the game on the line.

Seems like he's playing a lot more minutes starting in 2026.

Dude is tiny, but seems like he has some good hands/dribbling and can really bend around guys to try and take it to the basket

Pop is a much better defender than Wade, Wade had/has a much cooler head on his shoulders than Pop. Wade would have handled the press a lot better than Pop did against SMU.