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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 2569567, member: 153"] UConn has always had a PG playing WITH the outgoing PG. That is what I wrote in my previous post. The fact that afull year takes place in between without the heir apparent means you're 2 years off schedule. UConn has been rudderless since before Gilbert stepped onto campus. This has been the main difference between the prior 3 years and the years that came before. The only UConn PG who was capable of handling the rigors of the PG position without the benefit of playing with an upperclassman was Taliek Brown. Every other PG needed that experience. Ricky had Sheffer. Khalid had Ricky. Taliek came in alone. Marcus W. had Taliek. AJ had Marcus. Kemba had AJ. Shabazz had Kemba. Boatright had Shabazz. Terrence Samuel had Boatright. But Terence did not work out. Then.... a year without a pointguard. Sterling Gibbs comes in. The following year after Gibbs is gone, Gilbert comes in, is injured. The 2001-2004 years are actually a good hypothetical case for comparison. Obviously, those teams with Caron Butler, Emeka, Gordon, Boone, Villanueva, Rashad, Denham, were immensely talented. But each year we went into the season with only one true PG, Taliek Brown. If the 2001-2003 teams lost Taliek to injury, our starting PGs would have been Tony Robertson or Rashad Anderson. That would not have worked well. Jalen is a good comparison for Tony, athletically and in terms of his overall impact on the team, both shot the 3 similarly, Jalen is more skilled, though Tony more athletic. Neither of them are really adept at running a team. [/QUOTE]

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