Uh-oh, this issue or question of āTalentā is rearing its ugly head again. A lot of people on this board got fired up when others(including myself) simply stated that this is not a very Talented team.
To answer the question - How did we fall this far this fast- See Wake Forest.
It only takes one or two bad recruiting years or a couple of near- misses in recruiting for this to happen.
We simply have no center whatsoever.
I agree that Lutz recruited these players, but when guys canāt hit wide open looks it is on the Player(s) not the Coach.
By the way just for the record; Colson, Galen Young and Cam Stephens were not really typical Jucos, basically D1 transfers. So really more like Plavich.
Not sure, how accurate it is; but here is the background.
Colson, URI, and instead of sitting out a year, went and played Juco for a year.
Galen Young, qualified, but his best offer was Juco and went for only one year, came to us as a soph., played with us for 3 years.
Cam Stephens, played in NCAA tournament as a frosh at Purdue, even hit a shot in the NCAA tournament to take to OT, but left for one year of Juco, instead of sitting out (?), came to Charlotte.
[QUOTE=BigTimeNiner;219160]To answer the question - How did we fall this far this fast- See Wake Forest.[/QUOTE]
Funny example since the talk from most of my Wake Forest friends is that Skip Prosser canāt coach defense and how poor Wake Forest was defensively even with Chris Paul.
Iāll agree with this, Michell Baldwin did not perform as a point guard. I said that when he was here and remember people rushing to his defense. Mitchell is a fine person, but never matured into a strong point guard. I blame part of that on Lutz and part of that on Mitch. We as a program continue to lack a strong point guard and it shows every year.
we need to stop acting like the reason we arent winning is because of recruiting. its because we dont develop players and that is lutzās fault. we probably on average have a team that was more highly recruited out of hs than a team like bc who is at the top of the acc. or a team like gonzaga. its lutzās job to develop players and he doesnt. he needs great talent to win or get to the tournament. basden, withers, plavich. even with this team we could only get to the first round. remember lutzās horrible second half coaching job against state.
funny, so do I. I also think he canāt be any worse than what we have now. The question is, will he play? JL has been sitting on the bench for so long, and Carlos Williams and Lee have been grabbing all the minutes. I just donāt think Carlos is the answer.
funny, so do I. I also think he can't be any worse than what we have now. The question is, will he play? JL has been sitting on the bench for so long, and Carlos Williams and Lee have been grabbing all the minutes. I just don't think Carlos is the answer.
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