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Message: [QUOTE="JerseyAlum, post: 5121766, member: 13593"] Hurley expects huge jump from each player year to year. Last year's stats don't mean much in the context of 2024-2025 season so "recency bias" is also what Dan Hurley has as in his interviews he is all about the next year and last year means diddly. URI was an exhibition game so stats do not carry or count. Maheney had a very good URI game as well if you want to be fair. Not sure anyone said Haas was a turnover machine: He had 5 of 19 TOs while Maheney had zero. In the context of one game, that is meaningful, especially because we play Memphis next and while they don't have an especially tall team and basically play 7, they have some heads up guards. But digging into last night's game: Diarra was 3-4 shooting for 75% FG, 5 Reb, 3 Ast, 2 Steals, 1 Block, 5 TO, zero fouls. That's not bad since 2 Steals negate 2 TOs, and as mentioned one was slipping on the floor, so better yet. Maheney was 4-10 shooting for 40% FG, 2 Reb, 1 Ast, 0 Steals, 0 Blocks, 0 TOs, 2 PF. Took care of the ball better than anyone else playing good minutes not named Liam. So net net - Maheney had better ball control, but contributed far less than Diarra in the overall context. Still, Diarra will come off the bench next game. [/QUOTE]