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Message: [QUOTE="jordoo, post: 1197362, member: 569"] For a guy with stats in his handle you seem to be overlooking that all the available stats (mostly OOC games) pointed to MCW not being nearly as productive as the other 3 guards playing in front of him. We know that he had much less experience than the other 3 guards, that is a fact. He wasn't Carmelo showing up with a college ready body and NBA ready offensive game. Even when MCW played as a sophomore his game had major holes in it. Dion, Scoop and Brandon were all better shooters in college than MCW was and that is a stat that I'm sure you can look up quite easily although I only need my old noggin and own eyes to know that. Perhaps had we played MCW 25min a game he would have been much better by seasons end but even with all his minutes as a sophomore the other three guys were still better shooters and none were deficient enough on defense to make MCW a radically better option for playing time that season. Still lets put all that aside and say you are right and MCW played instead of Brandon that season we still likely lose to OSU because it was the loss of Fab Melo that cost us that game and replacing one very good guard with another would still mean we had three very good guards to play in that game either way. In other words it changes very little even and if anything it makes us a less dangerous perimeter team even using MCW soph shooting numbers. Look I get that you would prefer lengthening the bench, playing more guys and getting the younger guys experience regardless of weather it costs us some early games. I don't necessarily agree but I do understand that POV and see the validity of it in certain situations. The thing is you are picking the worst example to make your point because if anything it buoys the other side of that argument that you get the most out of your experienced ready talent and let the understudy improve in practice which is exactly what happened that season and the guard position had nothing to do with why we lost to OSU. We had a wildly successful season with MCW sitting on the bench for most of it. [/QUOTE]

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