Yes, I'm very disappointed in much of our guard play but let's give props to Michigan's backcourt but of McDaniel and Burnett who exploited our lackluster defense.
McDaniel was allowed to be a hot dog and he relished it and made any of our guards look like dry mustard. He played 38 minutes and had a career game and probably played 8 more minutes than he should have but Martelli obviously wanted to rub the mismatch in Pitino's face.
For a Harvard grad, Ledlum is not playing smart basketball. We need his rebounding more than his offense so I expect Pitino to reinforce that with him. He took the same bone headed shots that cost us the scrimmage against Pace.
Taylor needed to take more shots; in fact, he should have taken the shots Ledlum was attempting.
Pitino was very embarrassed by the play of his starters. He basically benched all of them with more than 9 minutes left in the game because of their piss poor execution of some pretty basic things.
I expect Pitino to work our players hard after this game but let's remember these guys are all new to each other and will be a different team by January, especially with the addition of RJ Luis who will make up for the Ledlum's offensive deficiencies.
As for the imaginary Posh-McDaniel match-up, I don't think Posh would have slowed down this kids incredible speed one iota. The kid just played with abandon and he knew when to pass and when to drive. As for the other imaginary match-up with Walt Clayton Jr. at the point, even at Iona, Daniss was the quicker player. Our guards allowed McDaniel to go around them too easily.
Our backcourt was too timid and that ladies was the game.
