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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5190860, member: 175"] Mahaney started in the URI exhibition (had 17) and then started our first 5 regular season games - until Memphis went at him hard and then we went to Diarra for the Colorado game, since Mahaney hadn’t looked all that great against the cupcakes either. I don’t think you make someone a starting point guard because you’re desperate to put him somewhere. I don’t think we were ever planning on Hass starting - if we were, we wouldn’t have given his role to a new guy right out of the chute. We would’ve said that “it’s your job to lose” and forced Mahaney to take it from him. Remember, Ball started for a month last year with Castle out. Hass didn’t. We could have played 2 point guards easily enough with Newton’s size. Ball had to be in our plans. [/QUOTE]