We still had room though. We ended up getting Gillon and White that summer. They were good players, but Huerter would have set us up to have a better season in 2018. I realize we went to the Sweet 16, but he was the missing piece on that team. It’s just one example how we’ve mismanaged the roster over the past 7 or 8 years. That recruitment should have been a formality.
Malachi was never going pro until his NCAA tournament. He exploded and bolted
And it wasn’t even the entire tournament. It was one game. He shot 4-21 in the two previous tournament games prior to Virginia. When people tell me NBA scouts aren’t dumb I will always point to that. He and Cooney had the same numbers that season.
Ahh I had my timelines wrong. I still believe we should’ve taken him and let it work itself out. We ran off BJ Johnson as well. He would’ve helped those teams quite a bit too.
Was it “running off” a player when he was supposed to be a 3pt shooter and he shot 26% from 3 his sophomore year?
That's racist.
Everyone knew he was young for his class, and was a player who needed to develop, but had a lot of potential.
Think his father stated that as well when he was a regular on this forum. Seems like it was a choice to redshirt here and build his body, or transfer down and continue to play and get to his dream a little faster. Got to the NBA and had a cup of coffee four straight years so the decision worked out for him.
He actually sat out a year before playing for LaSalle. Entered NBA at same time as if he red shirted at SU.
The board will call for freshman to get run off because they’re not good enough in their first year, but a guy struggles mightily for two years (and only gets the benefit of the doubt because he played better at a low major school) and the coaches should’ve given him some slack…
“History rewritten”….now you’re just making stuff up.
We were recruiting him in spring/summer 2015 but our coaches (likely JB) seemed to decide we were gonna have too many guards on the roster the following season with the scholarship restrictions. My feeling at the time was: You don’t pass up a player like Huerter with the size and skill set he had (elite shooting and developing PG skills) and the family being from nearby. Kaleb Joseph or Frank Howard would have ended up the odd man out, and one of them likely transfers after the season once everything shakes out. Someone always does. There’s always player movement, even back then. Turns out Joseph did transfer even without us signing Huerter.
Would Huerter's time here conflicted with Buddy's?
Or that Heurter was a 2 and done.
Huerter was drafted in 2018. Buddy made it to campus the following season.
Disagree on Sims. Don’t know why JB didn’t give him more run early. SU stayed away from Michael Brown (CNS/Providence) because they had Z and Anthony Harris. JB told Brown’s HS coach that he had an all league backcourt already.
If you thought BJ was a high major player in early 2015 then that’s your choice, it’s a wrong one but your choice none the less
Like I said earlier - he was young for his grade and needed to develop, and I thought he’d be good as an upperclassman.
