I agree with this for the most part, but I do think giving Diggins 5 minutes for the sake of his own development would have been fine on a night like last night where Gaffney was really off and Cole sat for an extended period of time in the first half.
How can they get adjusted to the college game when they don’t play?
I don’t recall Diggins being considered raw?
You are probably right that it would have probably had minimal impact yesterday. But the problem is that not giving them time and experience now will have a large impact in March and in 2022-2023.
In practice, the same way the other players developed
Maybe raw isn't the right term, but when he committed here nobody expected minutes from his freshman year because his defense wasn't going to be ready. It's just funny seeing the same people who posted rotations all offseason with no Diggins now complain that he's not playing in the rotation
When he committed here nobody expected minutes from his freshman year?
I think a lot of the frustration with Diggins and Johnson’s playing time has a lot to do with the fact they never saw many minutes vs the cupcakes on the schedule since that would have been the time to develop them. Practice vs real games is a whole different world. These guys needed to see minutes to develop.
Agree somewhat. But as I noted in a different post, I’d rather see freshman mistakes than upper classmen mistakes. Because, hopefully, the freshman will learn from them.
Same here, but that's not the feeling I get from most of these posts. People talk about Diggjns and Johnson as if they're the saviors for our season
I think most people want to just see something different. And if it’s worse then go back, but might as well try it. Because any time we play good teams we struggle to get 60 points.
I haven't seen anyone post like that. People are saying Diggins should get spot minutes to give Cole a rest and because Gaffney can't play point and is so bad this season. People want to see Samson get some minutes to develop because he has so much talent which Hurley has talked up.
And he looks completely lost out there. At one point We were making a run, he finally comes back in and he ran directly into Martin on a dribble hand off causing Whaley to travel.
Well that's just BS. I think most here just want a glimpse of Diggins to see if he can be more effective than Gaffney. If RD doesn't perform you take him out. Pretty simple. I have a feeling Rahsool may be overwhelmed on the defensive end but I for one would give him a chance. And it's not like Jalen is dominating his man on D
That was the talk all offseason on here and after he committed. People can certainly change their tune now and I'd like to see him getting a few minutes over Gaffney. But that doesn't take away all the talk after he committed and all offseason about what the rotation would be for this season
From what I remember people were saying 5-10 minutes for him. Which he certainly hasn’t got.
That wasn't the talk when he committed, the talk was we got a stud point guard who is the 50th ranked recruit in the country and he would get time right away. Heading into the season and at the start of the season when Hurley never talked about Diggins and Hurley was talking about "9 starters" it became obvious which players he was talking about because they were the ones he would mention.
Lots of turnovers and 3 attempts with the shot clock running down. Id prefer to see Diggins, Cole, Hawk, Tmart and Johnson and run a motion offense with constant cuts to the basket with the kick out to the open guy on the wings. I personally think its the offense we should be running regardless. Not sure what Dan Hurley is running but its not good.
Different as in no more Polly and a lot left of Gaff
Not really - most of the time, people are talking about them as players who can help the team.
Sanogo, Akok, Gaffney, Whaley, and Polley started for long stretches of their freshmen UConn seasons. Martin and Cole also got starter minutes on their pre-transfer teams as freshmen..
