Only two of these occurred in the last 30 years.
It doesn't take more than looking at our own team last year to see that we need a capable point guard.
And that team without a true starting point guard had a 6’-7” “center”, and yet, were one rebound away from playing in the NCAA finals.
I believe I said it is not required, but helps.
Those are both great seasons and obviosuly with getting a Big Ten Title everyone's gonna pick 2. Even without it that is an objectively great season. Let's change the hypothetical though. Instead of a respectable 3rd in the BIG and an elite eight that everyone would want lets go back to 22. If we lose to Iowa don't get the Big Ten title but we sneak past houston and lose in the sweet 16 is that a better season to you? Im taking the title
I think Skyy would have been very capable had he stuck with it. I don't think it was an ability issue for Skyy. He likely will mature and be very very good. Thats kind of what sucks is he has the tools but not the maturity to stick with it when he was struggling. Next season we have Williams, it seems another but it doesn't mean DGL can't be reliable if given the opportunity. If he is great but if not this won't be like last season.
The PG position is not just about initiating the offense, but about creating easy scoring opportunities for your scorers by breaking down defenses. This is the main reason we saw the major scoring droughts last year. Shooting percentages obviously go way up when you get better looks.
down to 35 in Torvik for some reason
Not all of us.
Agree. Skyy was too slow and could not get around anyone and was average vision and passer at best. Epps could beat his man off the dribble at times, but not a good passer. Neither could effectively use a ball screen.
If Williams is healthy we will improve. My only worry if we do not get someone else. Otherwise you use some combination of Harmon and Rodgers and DGL if he can't go.
That is also one thing Shannon needs to do to be a first round pick. Being able to pass the ball to the open man is important for him and everyone on our squad, not just the PG. Overall our squad lacked good passing.. It is one thing Hawkins did very well at times inspite of some turnovers, he limited those as the year went on. Hawk got better at passing the rock. But your right we need a PG that can get assist. We also need that from Shannon, Domask, Ty, Quincy and others besides h
Definitely agree. This is why getting a PG who is a natural distributor was so important going into next year. Hope Williams can fill that role, but having a hard time feeling overly optimistic about a guy coming off an injury like that.
No… they call a team that wasn’t expected to go to the tourney and surprisingly makes it as a huge underdog Cinderella, as in “Cinderella’s going to the dance.” It’s also why the NCAA tournament is called “the dance,” and we can thank Dick Vitale for both of those terms.
Also, IIRC, before Reeves went to Kentucky and was brought up as a potential Illini target, didn't one of our insiders say that Underwood wasn't interested because Reeves couldn't play defense? In essence, he'd give up more points than he would score.
This is true of any single elimination tournament.
Nah, I had a ton of problems with our team's chemistry last year that weren't at all related to having a point guard. I think fixing those problems is going to go quite a bit further than a "pure point guard" would. No guarantee they're fixed, obviously, but having the team dislike each other and not be working towards the same goals was easily the biggest issue I saw with last year's team. It led to multiple guys trying to get theirs, jacking shots, etc. - no point guard was going to stop Matthew Mayer from jacking up 8 threes a game and making less than 20% of them the last 6 games of the year.
He’ll be a 5 star and dare I say Burger Boy when it’s all said and done… Dude is going to absolutely dominate his senior year
Although correct, the name/term stays with them the entire time. Villanova/Georgetown to name one.
