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[QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5238066, member: 175"]
Pretty simple point. We need a point guard we can give the keys to. He played our two biggest conference rivals - who thrive on ball pressure - and he had a combined 18 turnovers. That’s a bit of a resume blight. So could he do the job we need him to do?

And I honestly don’t know for sure. The turnovers in those two games were a huge outlier compared to the rest of the year (when he played against SEC defenses) - he finished the year only averaging 2.3. Maybe it was just the yips and he figured it out. But he also had more than four assists only twice in his last 25 games (5 against LSU and 7 against Mississippi State). So it sort of looks like (just looking at the numbers - I never saw him play) that Georgia took some of the playmaking responsibilities off his shoulders and put him off the ball a lot - and I’m not sure that would make him a good fit with our current needs. We have plenty of off the ball guys already.

But he might be fine and those two games were put in the rear view mirror a long time ago. If he is on our short list, I’m sure we will do our due diligence.
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