That’s a good point. I remember reading Boeheim raving about him this past season, but that would only pertain to on the court.
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billthetruth
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And if you are going to make a statement please have the facts right. I responded to Marillac's ridiculous comment last year that Conway would never play more than 5 mpg. He said he would be a bench warmer and noncontributor.
I said he would play
Guess what? He averaged 8 minutes a game. And to further emphasis my point a lot of those minutes were in the second half of very closely contested Big East games
Perhaps the most serious struggle last year's team had was finding a productive 2 guard.
We are giddy about getting Dingle but he struggled so mightily, he lost his starting role. Brady got a shot and looked great for a couple of games. When Alleyne got his chance to start, he wasn't productive enough. Taylor played great at times but not well enough at others. Conway got a shot very late, played a couple of good games, then not so well.
Finally Dingle started to look like the guy we thought we got. Had he clicked right away, who knows - maybe a ranked team.
Put him in Eric’s basement with Cragg
I'm probably in the minority but I'm okay with Sim and Glover rotation at 2G with a PG like Smith.
Multi year commitments won’t work because neither side wants them. Just like a player can decide to up and leave, a coach could decide he doesn’t want the player after one year.
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Damn hate seeing Smith visiting Kentucky hopefully he still visits us next week.
I never made that comment
Do you just make things up?Here is what I wrote preseason:
“Shooters usually find their way on the court for Pitino. I don’t know where the minutes will come from but I expect Conway to get some.”
Quality off ball shooting option with BE experience.
Averaged 2.2 pts as a senior at Xavier and then 17.8 the next year at Jacksonville State. Puts the competition gap in perspective.
Don't look at his BE splits. lol.
also averaged 7 as a freshmen at Xavier. Weird story. Confidence matters for a shooter.
The Portal has created the same sort of discussion about incoming possibles as our in season discussions about Playets already in team .My takes don’t get me banished. Fighting with Ohiofan does
Plus , thrown in a few more . Firstly Kadary Richmond . Why would RP openly recruit a player that has had problems existing at his 2 previous ports of call?
One of them being Syracuse under RP’s Buddy Boeheim ?
Last year Richmond balked over playing in what , 3 games ? How can you covet such a player if you want to build Team Chemistry ?
Richmond is a good player but , do you really want him here to disrupt our Program . Plus , it creates issues with how are you going to use Wilcher and , to a extent Dunlap? .
I sense glossing over his credentials to justify his scoring , defense , etc is much too risky .
Already we ate conjuring up lineups with people who, at this point, aren’t commits . Dillion , Smith , etc .
Moving them into spots that would require disruption , especially for Wilcher and Dunlap .
Besides , in Pitino’s system , you can be a starter one day and a DNP the next .
I doubt , neither Wilcher or Dunlap will be DNP for any game next year . He’s going to have both of them working out diligently this summer .
Wilcher , I think did show signs of his BB ability but , was tentative on decision making and assuming the role of a true PG . That will change .
Dunlap can shoot and pass well . Plus his defense did improve . He will play a lot next season . As will Zuby , RJ .
As for the return of Ledlum and Dingle , how ever r remote poses this question , where do they fit for next year?
Dingle , in particular , if a waiver granted doesn’t appear to be eager to return to SJU?
Ledlum is a different story bur , again the NCAA will be the decision maker .
Time will tell ..
Not sure, but vaguely recall Boeheim saying that Kadary was an NBA prospect and I think that was recently? Just throwing that out. Don't hit me. Lol.
“He's a tremendous college player,” Boeheim said. “I don't know how many guys in college are better than him. Just a few maybe, if that. What he does, he's as good as anybody.”Mar 8, 2024
He also said: https://www.nj.com/sports/2021/10/s...-richmond-after-guard-took-the-high-road.html
“Kadary never worked hard at the game. He never had coming in, didn’t work hard last year and really was not in the condition,” Boeheim said in an Oct. 22 interview with Brad Klein of WAER Sports. “He played 21 minutes a game and that was about all he could play. And he was hurt a lot, had a lot of setbacks.
“I just think Joe [Girard] was more consistent, obviously a better shooter, just a more consistent player. And people talk about Kadary’s steals, but Joe was second on the team and top 10 in the league in steals, so the defensive difference wasn’t that big. But I think Joe was just more solid, and obviously a much better outside shooter.”
Boeheim added: “But Kadary was good and that’s why he played 21 minutes a game. If he’d have come back he probably would’ve played 25-26 minutes a game this year and he chose Seton Hall. They have five guards so we’ll see how many minutes he’s going to play there. You just never know.”
This article is a read-between-the-lines thing, but clearly some type of miscommunication about role
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