maybe, but Shabazz hit what, 3 long range 3s down the stretch. I think maybe this team would have actually benfited from a Craig Austrie/Donnell Beverly type backup point guard. Someone who could play 3-6 minutes a game just to spell Napier for a few minutes. But with the scholarship limitations and Boatright that was probably a bit of a luxury.
so are you saying he's just a dumb jock and can't be expected to know the rules? Or if your a good enough player the rules don't apply? Or is it the old everybody does it excuse? If it is 1 or 2, I disagree. if it is #3, i don't know what to say.
Yeah, to some degree this might be where the scholarship restrictions do hurt. Not in landing marquee guys but in getting the role players.
I respect your knowledge and understanding of rules and I think it is a good starting place. But my understanding of human strengths and weaknesses makes me believe that not every one who doesn't have your gift or appreciation of this aspect of society is lazy or bad. There are probably hundreds of things people do that many of us find ourselves struggling or unable to accomplish in spite of our best intent and actions. Your arguments remind me of the teachers who in the fifties would reprimand students who struggled to read, insisting every student was lazy. Well now we understand that there are programming problems with the brain which interfere with certain people's processing of letters and words. So these people were reprimanded not because they were failing to try, but because society was still in its infancy in understanding the human brain. In essence teachers were not sophisticated in understanding how people learn. And we're still a long way off from understanding everything. It appears to me you have a background and interest in following rules and regulations. And our society needs people like you. But to insist that 17 and 18 year olds be as familiar as you about the NCAA rules book as the legal teams hired to ensure their compliance would be as unrealistic as one of these same kids insisting you step onto the basket ball court and play at their level of accomplishment. There is a range of skill sets in all of us for various things and insistence we all be the same is contrary to the evidence of the variations of abilities that all of us contribute to this world and why we all need one another.