Manek and Remy both have the chance to be players of the tournament if their teams win it all. Manek is averaging 19 a game on 47% 3-point shooting on over 8 attempts a game. Remy was already his regionals outstanding player.
He and Gaffney are either not good enough or the staff did not develop them. We will find out soon enough.
I would bet my entire life savings it’s the first option…they will probably be successful in a lower level like the A10. Player development is one of this staff’s best qualities
I would not bet anything. With the guards on this team, A10 guards could help this team. RJ was good but played too many minutes. There is not that much quality left. Dan Hurley has a class of highly rated recruits, and not much to show for it. Are they not analyzing talent as well as they think, not getting the good ones, or not developing guards? The question is fair.
No, he did and thats why hes out. Some guys just arent cut out to play here. I wish him the best.
This. All the rest is just excuses. He wore AJ down to nothing by the end of the season and we'll never know what Diggins could have contributed.
The one who needed to realize this was our Coach who struck out in the off season last year.
Corey Floyd Jr. is a shooting guard, but maybe the coaching staff saw that he has really good leadership abilities and skill sets required to be a point guard. That could be.
Agree. My assessment is that Floyd (though young) is a player that has the "it" factor. When you consider his dad's legacy and what he showed as a soph and junior in high school and his AAU showings with elite players around him (he played with two of the top 5-10 players in the country and looked totally in place with them even though he was a year or more younger).
I don't think a coach ever says to his players that they won't play. He probably frames it by saying here's what you need to do, here's what I need from you, if you want to get more playing time. I'm sure Hurley didn't want either to transfer so he would never say you're not going to play and force them out.
Hurley can’t be both blindly loyal to Gaff and reducing his minutes as he did. Maybe stubbornly thought Gaffney would emerge, but blindly loyal is projecting an emotional element that is not consistent with PT facts. I’m fine saying Hurley incorrectly chose a limited upside present over long term development, but I think that simply came from trying to win every game and coach the current team to its best outcome each night. So never taking the long view is supported by facts of early season minutes (namely almost none for Diggins) and then come later season Hurley was stuck again to only pick best short term solution (he’d hoped for near term improvement from Gaffney but ultimately had no choice but to cut Gafs minutes to have best chance to win each game) and result was long term for both was self sabotaged.
Re-read what I said - I didn't say that Hurley would've said they weren't going to play; I said he likely told them they weren't going to get lots of PT. And I'm not so sure he didn't want either to transfer - coaches often make it clear there's going to be less opportunity for players. You have to be fortright and if a player decides to pack their bags, then so be it. Would you want a player on the roster that is half-hearting their way through a season because they realize part way through that they have little to no choice to play? No way in my book. You have to be honest with players so they can provide an honest effort. Just like anything in life.
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I'm glad Rasool figured out he has to go a level down to become the player he's supposed to be now unlike Gaff who took 3 years.
Andre is FAR better at the point than Rahsool was.
No he’s not. Just because you see a 6’7 guy grab a rebound and start a fast break don’t make him a point guard. We didn’t even see the kid on the court to even say who was better, he was 6’2 freshman AJ is a 6’7 sophomore who be out of control.
If I were Sool, the draw of playing for Pitino would stand out on that list of suitors.
