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[QUOTE="superjohn, post: 5126269, member: 1522"]
The problem is I'm just not sure Mahaney is going to turn into a very good point guard and it makes us a lot less athletic because it's keeping one of Liam, Solo, Jaylin off the floor and it's keeping Hass off the floor when he's in there.

People bring up Tristen but Tristen was a point guard coming in.  He had a 22 point triple double with 5 steals in his fourth game at UConn against Buffalo.  He's just a lot bigger/more physical than Mahaney and he wasn't getting targeted all the time on defense.  Mahaney has a couple things working against him.  He's trying to learn the toughest position for the most advanced offensive team in the country as someone who isn't a natural point guard.  At the same time he's getting targeted on defense because he's the slightest and least athletic guy on the court.

I just worry they may be trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.  The team and Mahaney are too talented to have the whole season depend on something that may not be a fit.  I trust the staff because they've been right about basically everything but we're really going to have to start seeing it work and 6 of the next 7 games are against big time teams.
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