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Message: [QUOTE="RayIsTheGOAT, post: 4117866, member: 6090"] As long as Cole stays healthy, we will get by fine this year and be set up next year at PG... hopefully. Very happy with the progress so far and the fact we have a sick front court and can, at the very least, be competitive with probably any team in the country. One one hand, we played some of the elite defenses in the country in Atlantis. And Diggins and Hawkins are still young freshmen, and hopefully will improve throughout the year. Having said all that, it's pretty inexcusable on the coaching staff's part that we have 2 open scholarships and no one who's ready to play right now who can handle the ball at the point position outside of Cole. This is UConn basketball, playing in the Big East. We have pieces to push for a tournament run.. by redshirting Floyd, not playing Diggins, and Gaffney not being a much-improved ballhandler, we are way too thin in the backcourt. We badly could've used another veteran ballhandling/scoring PG. Gaffney was supposed to be that guy at this point, but his handle is just not there yet. I still think Gaffney has good value to this team as a shooter, facilitator, good athlete and defender, and will improve as the season progresses. [/QUOTE]