Penndemonium
PhD Student
Posts: 1877
Reg: 11-29-04
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10-03-18 01:12 PM - Post#261848
In response to weinhauers_ghost
I lean towards Woods as the starting 1, with Goodman/Silpe having substantial minutes. Last year, you wouldn't have described either Woods or Foreman as a prototype PG (or SG). I thought they were an under-sized, under-shooting, under-ball-handling, and under-assisting guard tandem. Somehow Donahue made that work and obviously Foreman improved a lot over the year.
Last year, Foreman was our Alpha. I see some promising signs that Woods could be that this year. He made pretty good decisions last year and doesn't seem afraid of a situation. Hopefully having a spotlight on him will make him even better, as it did with Foreman.
We would all love for one of the Freshman to be our savior at PG, but I don't see that happening. Very few Freshman come in ready to lead an ivy team at the position, and it doesn't seem like it will be Donahue's M.O. as our team depth stabilizes in the future.
PG is the most important position in college basketball, so I hope we get that figured out. We made it work last year, but I'm not confident that it will work as a team strategy into the future!
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Jeff2sf
Postdoc
Posts: 4466
Reg: 11-22-04
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10-03-18 01:18 PM - Post#261849
In response to Penndemonium
understanding that Antonio has shown personal and athletic development from four years ago...
we have a year and a half of data that shows when he was a high usage, ball-in-his-hands point guard, he was severely below average and if we got that performance again, we'd likely not make the ivy tourney.
we have a year of data that shows when he's a complementary, low-usage off guard, glue guy, he did a great job. Given we don't have an obvious replacement for that sort of necessary position, I'm not sure why we want to "solve" Darnell's loss by creating a hole at the off guard spot.
But Steve knows that, so if he starts him at point, either he's made a lot of strides (awesome!) or he hasn't made any strides but we have no one better (not awesome!). We will not know which one it is for a few games so don't be telling me "Woods starting at 1 necessarily means he must be a much better point guard than he used to be".
It might mean that. It might not.
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palestra38
Professor
Posts: 32682
Reg: 11-21-04
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10-03-18 01:31 PM - Post#261851
In response to Jeff2sf
Agreed. I think he is capable of taking that step. But if not, and it means that Silpe is playing major minutes, I am a bit pessimistic (unless, of course, Silpe has taken the giant steps I spoke of above).
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