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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3223226, member: 405"] This is absolutely right. It's not Buddy's fault that he's playing a little more than maybe is good for him at this stage in his development as a player. Last year, Buddy started the season very poorly and played himself out of the rotation by Thanksgiving, but shot his way back into it in January. This year, his shooting from game to game is maybe a bit more inconsistent than last year, but it's because so much more is being asked of him. It is impacting his floor game, which he worked very hard on last year, to be playing so many minutes. Yes, he's always a threat to catch fire when he's out there, but he's less likely to do so if he's too gassed to go for loose balls or rebounds. I want this team to be better so badly, but the negative recruiting - to be honest, it has had more of an effect than the sanctions themselves - is killing us. I find it hard to believe that every single kid in the top 75 is getting a bag to go to school. Sure, maybe we can't compete for Mickey Dee's without an AAU sponsor relationship, and we have done the prudent thing and gone the New England Prep School route. Makes sense, if you can't compete at the highest level in one game, to try another. But JB is just constructing such unbalanced rosters. He's trashing players too frequently in the press, even when they show some promise. I want to enjoy this more. The offense is better, but so was the offense with White, Lydon and Gillon. They played better defense than this year's model. And they were a better offense. We have some good young players. They would make a good supporting cast, if we had either some upperclassmen or some elite high school talent coming in. This season is starting to remind me of 2 years ago, when some of these same players dragged themselves around the court in an injury-doomed season. [/QUOTE]

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