Vermont Basketball: In Depth Look at Junior Forward Anthony Lamb
By Bryan Mauro
Why You Should Know Lamb
With the rebuilding year of most of the conference, which has seen most of its stars either graduate or move on to bigger schools. Lamb is now by far the best player in this conference. If he can prove that his foot injury is healed it will be sky’s the limit for the forward. With the style of play that Coach Becker runs, Lamb gets the ball early and often in the offense. Lamb healthy this year, he will be the frontrunner for the conference player of the year.
Lamb is as skilled as they come both shooting the basketball and around the rim. He seemingly always saves his best games for the biggest competition. Last season against Northwestern he scored 32 points. The Brooklyn, NY native also put on for his city against St Bonaventure with 27 points. The junior seems to do all of this without taking a high volume of three-point shots. He is a good shooter and the coaching staff would give him free rein to take those shots. So why does he not take more threes?
The junior forward has a tremendous basketball IQ and knows that he is better served at the rim, where he can be more efficient. One of the unheralded aspects of Lamb’s game is his ability to get fouled, where he is a dynamite free throw shooter. He has shot 188 foul shots in his career making a total of 147 of them. That is good for 78%. Not only can the junior dominate on the interior and inside the three-point line. He is also a dangerous player from the foul line.