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Message: [QUOTE="boog204, post: 5204567, member: 880"] Agree on your first part... Lamb grew with time and by the 3/4 point of the year he was an outstanding 2G who very clearly had lottery pick potential. But you have said, now repeatedly, that Lamb did not have a better skillset than Ross. It was blatantly obvious from the first minutes that Lamb had some serious tools. I know highlights do not tell the whole picture, but Lamb was doing things in those first games that Ross has never been able to do. I look at Ross and I see a bouncy kid. He's raw, long, and athletic. He has had brief moments of being a great defender. I don't see a great handle or jump shot. I do not see someone who can play instinctively and certainly see someone with absolutely zero confidence and understanding of the flow of the game. Ross was given the starting nod the first game after Liam went down and he was awful. He was given other opportunities early in the year when Dan Hurley was pumping him up as a starter and he failed. Much like Stew, Ross was given opportunity to play minutes and just didn't bring much to the table. How much more, in a season of somewhat desperation like this, do you want him to go back to the well? We have our two highest rated guards coming in next year and I think an enormous sleeper in Furphy as well. If these dudes stagnate/bust then you may have something. To be honest, I think the bigger question is how/why Dan Hurley is now 0/2 in bringing top 50 freshmen PGs. I'm not ready to write off Nowell yet, but wow, that has not worked out in the way I thought. Legit thought he could end up being the starting PG. Diggins, given his #'s at UMass, was probably just an overrated recruit. But still. [/QUOTE]

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