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2022 Iggy Winner: ACC Record
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In the first half of his soph season, MCW had a strong propensity to jump up in the air and pass the ball to the other team. He fixed that and was pretty damn good in the second half of the season. He was also not a good shooter but might have been OK that year.
I don't recall much toward MCW if I'm being honest...I think there was some debate about whether he should get time as a Frosh??? I don't recall any substantial debate about him as a Sophomore. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
I think with Triche, at least that year, the issue was more about his shooting. Some people thought he was an amazing shooter, and insisted on this for four years - those same people generally fell into the crowd that had a very strong dislike of Scoop Jardine, and insisted he was an abysmal shooter that we could replace by giving more PT to Brandon Reese.The walk-on. I think those people wanted Triche as PG, maybe?
As a result, I think there was a lot of animosity flowing back and forth about Triche and how to define his skill set.
That argument also sometimes devolved into whether our redshirt super-shooter (by rep at the time) Trevor Cooney, should get some more minutes in case we needed some shooting at some point. I think overall, a lot of the Triche stuff was just carry-over from Scoop/Triche arguments though. It was all rather dramatic at the time.
That's my recollection.
