Diarra is fine but he is not capable of the role Hurley and staff clearly envisioned for him. My comment is not a knock on Diarra, it’s a knock on the staff for thinking he and Mahaney could run the point.
Yeah Diarra has to be the backup PG and not the starter. I was hoping he would make a jump this year but he looks the same as last year. Hustle guy who plays good D and can score at times. At least he drives. Maybe they need to have Diarra teaching "How to Drive the ball to the basket" as our team falls too in love with taking 3's.
We could use Tyrese Martin
The "wall potential" talk of SJ from a couple years ago hasn't stood the test of time. It was ridiculous to say then and is even more of a head scratcher now. Samson is so frustrating. He's an A+ lob threat that puts great pressure on defenses in the pick and roll game but he cannot corral a rebound even if he gets both of his mitts on it.
Hell, if Mahaney could be a halfway decent 2, we could at least work with that. We’d have 4 shooters to rotate at 2-4 (plus Ross/Stewart). If we have to go with Diarra-Nowell at point, so be it. But we are riding with McNeeley on an 0-9 night because we’re short a rotation guy. Maybe we need to just get him some shots off screens and see if he can be a dude.
Yes.
It does seem like Hurley is either hit or miss on PGs. Missed on Gaffney, Diggins, and Mahaney. Hit massively on Newton and Diarra.
I had high hopes for our returning guys. I really thought Ball, Stewart, Ross, and SJ would make huge jumps this season and it seems like Ball is the only one that's made any jump at all. I also thought Karaban and Diarra would improve quite a bit, but that hasn't really happened either.
Did you ever watch the Ollie days after the ship?
I don’t think it’s “are” problem. But it is probably one of “our” problems. Nice grammar.
This is what I just can't understand. How could their evals of those and others be so poor? The rotations are all over the place, as are the minutes played and not just related to foul trouble. Hurley, Kimani and Murray aren't new at this. Its confounding. Hope they are planning their hard reset on the long flight home.
Ahhh, it’s an easy, lazy take to dump on them right now.
You can do better than that. While all the pieces were needed including Castle, Castle wins zero titles without Clingan and Newton. My point is, don’t whine about this year if people want to get giddy about the parade of early departures. Castle would look pretty good on this team, but Clingan would look even better. He facilitated just about everything on D and O. From day 1 this year I thought it pretty likely our middle position could not come close to doing what Clingan did. Teams this year don’t have to worry about driving and it exposes our perimeter D. Tell me if a UConn team this year is way more bullet proof with Clingan and Castle even with Newton gone than with McNeeley added, and maybe he comes anyway. The idea of a three peat seemed like a fantasy. I would not mind eating crow.
What stood out to me, refs aside, was the number of missed wide open shots taken by Karaban, McNeeley, Ball and Diarra. 26 FG’s made on 62 attempts and 8 three’s made on 29 attempts. They buried themselves.
Can we trade Mahaney for Posh Alexander and a draft pick ?