Way oversimplifying here. Look at all of our good teams over 30 years, they had two point guards, most with experience. The good teams that didn’t had outrageously talented shooting guards like Ben Gordon. (who had a ridiculous handle btw)
Tate and Chris Smith, KO and Sheffer, Khalid and Ricky, Taliek and Ben, Kemba and Shabazz, Shabazz and Boat. (Bazz was a freshman with Kemba, but those are two all time greats, maybe the two greatest)
Look at the teams that fell short, 2006 in particular. We had Marcus Williams and nothing else. That was our Achilles all year. Lack of ball handling and creating beyond Marcus.
AJ’s FF team was great until Dyson went down. Dyson was a rich man’s Christian Vital. He was playing out of his mind alongside AJ before getting hurt. Totally in control. That is the one exception I can see where we didn’t have two PG’s and were really good. That said, Dyson was an animal and he was totally bought into the system that year.
Pinning hopes to a freshman Gaffney just isn’t fair. We are talking about great players here and he hasn’t even played one game. Again, I hope he’s amazing, but just assuming he’d be adequate if AG went down is silly.
I won’t touch the front court situation, but I can tell you if Akok goes down and we just “make do” with Polley, that’s cool but don’t expect many wins. We need to rebound to turn this bus around.
