I think Mahaney was originally recruited to play over Solo. Once Solo started killing it over the summer we tried using Mahaney at PG it seems.
Armstrong
Thant would mean the coaches let us compete this season with only Hass and a freshman pg?
We pivoted to Nowell.
Jeremy Roach
If that was the case, who was the backup, an untested frosh? I don’t buy that. They tried to force Mahaney as a PG in the early part of the season even though it didn’t work…even in buy games. If Mahaney was playing with Newton and Castle he would be fine for 10-15 min a game….but he’s not playing with them
Having a top rated freshman as a backup is sort of a normal progression. Kemba backed up Price. Napier backed up Kemba. Adams backed up Gibbs. Marcus Williams backed up Taliek Brown. Ben Gordon backed up Tony Robertson.
Yup. It’s not unreasonable that a top 30 guy that the coaches continually talked up through the recruiting process was thought to be able to do just that too.
Diggins is currently shooting under 38% with just above a 1-to-1 assist to turnover ratio in the A-10. I assure you he would not have been the answer to this team’s woes, totally ignoring the fact that he would have gotten no PT to develop the last couple seasons.
Amen. any/all of Mahaneys PT should be going to Nowell. But I’ve been saying that since December.
If Hass was Kemba & Nowell was Bazz, all would be good....but they aren't. Hass gives all he can, but even healthy, he's not close to kemba.
Just pick out the best of the examples and ignore all the other ones I guess
Interesting with Hass is I recall he took his time deciding to come back. Wonder what the considerations were outside of NIL.
Yes, Nowell was the backup. Untested frosh? Like Shabazz was when Kemba led us to a championship? Like Castle last year. Come on. There is nothing unusual about relying on freshmen. Especially as reserves. Shabazz was ranked about #85 I think, Nowell #35.
It honestly hasn't been the best offseason and season for the staff as it pertains to this team.
I could be wrong but I believe that Mahaney was recruited to be our starting PG, but also see some time at the two, with us basically playing two point guards together.
Mahaney didn't torch us in the tournament, I don't know why this keeps getting repeated here. I wanted the kid here but he shot 4-13 fg's and had 9 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, and 2 turnovers against us.
And in their one and done last year he was 5-21 from the field against Grand Canyon and was run by like a road cone. Don’t let the totals deceive, he is low efficiency volume.
I wanted him at UConn because I saw him as a creative scorer, I thought he would be more efficient playing on a better team. The whole turn him into a point guard thing was just a bad evaluation by Hurley and the staff. He played some point at St. Mary's but was really bad at it.
Nope it hasn’t. Smart staff and they’ll adjust now that egos have been checked back. B2Bs can do funny things, overconfidence one of them. Part of why it’s so hard to repeat. The psychology of sports is so interesting that way. Handling extreme success can be challenging.
Same, and the euphoric belief post B2B that this staff has an eagle eye, could turn rock into gold, “Cam 2.0”. It wasn’t until we saw him in open practice and then watched some film, looked deeper into his #s, that I started questioning. It just happens they’re not magicians and mortal, and that really great selection, and some luck, trump.
Cam was a unicorn - but I thought even a Cam Lite would be perfect … and he’s not at all Cammish. Doesn’t look to shoot coming off screens, which is a huge minus because when you maybe don’t match up in quickness or physicality, everything else is easier once you get the D rushing out at you. He can sometimes get to the rim deceptively with changes of direction and a quick burst - but he doesn’t have nearly the bag that I thought he had on film. Cam would explore his options and make something happen on his 4th or 5th choice/read. I haven’t seen Aidan show anything like that. At best he has one counter and then he’s done.
Mahaney has had plenty of chances. I don't see it happening for him here.
