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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1729871, member: 716"]
Nice, good find. I'm not saying you were wrong, it's just the case that we got there in spite of this move not working out very well. Gbinije improved on a lot of things, but he never became a good facilitator (though your and Boeheim's hope was legitimate - if we could develop a tall athletic scoring wing into a good point guard, our ceiling would be really high).

This is where the Final Four phenomenon comes into play - this move is praised, even though Gbinije never developed into a point guard, had a nice senior year on a 14-loss team as a pretty efficient scorer and shooter (in fact, he'd probably have been an even better scorer and shooter if he hadn't been burdened with this difficult job), then had a really tough offensive slump over four of the five tournament games (.96 points per shot over the five) in which two of his teammates upped their offensive production to make up for his struggles. Final Fours cover a lot of flaws. If we hadn't had that run, he'd be Mike, the forward who couldn't quite get the hang of playing point guard on a 14-loss team, and no one would talk about move as a particularly good personnel choice by Boeheim.
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