I'm not as high on Stewart as he is but this is a hilarious way to frame a freshman getting minutes in the biggest games possible for one of the best college teams of all time.
To me the easy call for Hurley is to have McNeeley come off the bench. It's super easy to sell him on playing starters minutes coming in for Stewart, who is also a very good player, has paid his dues for a year, and honestly is going to be better defensively at the start of the season than McNeeley anyway. McNeeley can still close games, and he's been in the NBA pipeline for years playing on the FIBA teams, so it's not going to effect his NBA stock at all to come off the bench. It's just way more logical in a situation where you have a bunch of guys all good enough to start.
Thanks. So did you not post for a long time? So the success the team had with Hurley brought you back? I'm just wondering how you didn't post for so long and why compared to how much you're posting now. Were you reading the Boneyard and just not posting? I post a decent amount and I can't imagine reading the board and not posting at all.Been around for way longer than 2011. Where is that old battle ax Fishy these days anyway?
Been a die hard home grown Husky fan since I was a kid late 80s, good chunk of the family Alum. The Ollie years and AAC were hard to watch. Like an oncoming accident you hope sorts itself out while not looking, for something you grew up with so much pride in. I guess everyone treats sports trauma differently. Hurley has created a lot of renewed enthusiasm obviously and reinvented the program into something so amazing it’s hard to believe sometimes.
As a former professional athlete, I don’t wear rose colored glasses 24-7. I know some here do, and expect everyone else to. I just don’t find it objective, or interesting.
Who are these prognosticators?
Sent his season stats and another poster shared his overall tourney stats, a tourney where we blew out opponents every game, except for Bama.
Variety of life factors, multiple business’, etc and was honestly following more realignment stuff at the time than hoops as kinda knew the future of the program really depended on getting out of the AAC. Ollie was on a clear downward trajectory. I’d consider myself a prideful spoiled fan as watched JC build this thing from nothing to the apex, to then see it flushed away. It was hard to watch. I’m beyond grateful for Hurley.
not uncommon, I read for years before I posted. Retired and bored, the Yard is a hobby now, lotsa fun!
What??? Listen, you may be proven right, but to think that he WILL definitely go from fringe rotation player to the NBA is more crazy than thinking that he will take an extra year to work on his game. This topic must be read in conjunction with how incredibly deep we are. It wouldn’t be a shame on him to back up Liam and Alex. Your take is too radical.
I followed the board for 10-15 years and never posted for what its worth
It's not radical when he's already being mocked in the 1st round and is being mentioned as one of the top sophomores to watch for the NBA in multiple articles already
Narratively, I think you're right that this is cleanest.
Can you please share all these mocks and NBA circle articles about Stewart? I’ve seen one mock with him at pick 30, by Sam V. Would love to read more about this.
There's a thread somewhere on here with all the mock drafts and all that in one spot. The ESPN article is here, I think there was another one from Rivals or 247 or something too. It was a few months ago so don't remember what site
The reason Stewart probably doesn't start is because McNeeley is better than him and I doubt we start three 6'7ish players.
Only one will start but I can see a situation where both on the floor at the same time, Stew spelling AK or Ian at the 2.
Don't some mocks have McNeeley going this year? Too talented not to start
i thought Diarra did a great job tag-teaming w/ Castle on Shannon. maybe i'm misremembering that but we arent going to be playing many wings as good as him anyways. maybe Edgecombe or Ian Jackson but they arent as big as Shannon. i'm confident in Diarra being our lockdown perimeter defender against anyone but a stretch 4, e.g., cade tyson, momcilovic, etc.
What do Kemba, Andre, and Hawkins have to do with this?
I think he means a lot of talented players that then played in the league didn’t start as freshman and used them as examples.
None of them were one and done projected lottery picks before their freshmen season started.