I was a big fan of freshman year Gaffney so no push back from me.
I like Austrie a lot. Unfortunately he’s the lowest on the totem poll because Calhoun was so legendary when it came to making a great PG.
Some of us remember that 2005-06 season. We "trusted" Craig Austrie because our other two point guards were suspended.
He was-The Ross takes were just as ridiculous
We were putting Liam at point at times last year when Diarra was hurt. Diarra had to play 30 minutes on a bum knee for the whole back half of the season because we refused to trust Nowell.
The bigger issue is that the staff thought Mahaney could provide valuable minutes at point guard. As we saw, he was more suited to playing 2 guard than the point. It was a roster construction issue. The staff learned from it and appeared to make significant efforts to shore up the point guard spot and ball handling going into this coming season.
If I remember right Austrie was the Gatorade Player of the year in CT his senior year of high school.
Players earn trust. You don't just give it to them. So much happens in practice that we don't see. And despite your convictions, you don't know everything.
Which should tell you everything you need to know. You saw him in those few games, he was awful
Just goes back to my original point. How come Calhoun can make Austrie, an outside the top 100 player, comfortable enough to be a viable point guard from Day 1 but we can’t make even a top 30 recruit comfortable enough to play well.
