im4cuse
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How much we offering for a MAAC guard?
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Class of 2019 PG Dakota Leffew (GA) Portal to Georgia
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It does not matter where they come from. Donovan Clingan played HS ball in a very mediocre conference. He just kept getting better and better. Players develop all the time. I think we need to trust that we will get the best players we can afford. You want five stars, start writing five figure checks, 6 figures if you have it.
Scott11
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We’ve been looking for a point guard, but it’s so hard to find
walsh2012
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Is it?
Syracuse has had combo guards for a decade, how has that worked out?
they are spending money on a MAAC shooting guard, why not go after someone who fits the position of need?
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They clearly think he does.
yeah, but they don't know as much about hoop as he does.
Dmcnabbrules
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He’s not just a shooting guard. Stop with that. He payed point most of last season and is a willing passer.
Orangezoo
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181 would only be happy with a coaching staff and players he hand picks and personally approves with his years of experience as a coach and D1 athlete. Anything else is unacceptable and grounds for kicking the current staff to the curb. Pretty much every post is some semblance of this.
albanycuse
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They didn’t have good enough players to win, it had nothing to do with some guard labeled a CG . Lollll
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Mack played on a high profile team in the best conference in the country (that won it), and was scouted by everyone. Guy didn't end up at Harvard by accident. Maybe he blows up at the next level but there's a reason he ended up there.
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He’s gonna go to Nova, Jyare is no longer interested after being mad about a tweet, Freeman is asking out of his LOI, JJ is NBA bound and we are going to give Brooklyn the wonder kid from FL the keys to the offense. Gonna hold as many schollies as possible for a monster 25 and 26 class.
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Hope not.
You weren't suppose to tell.
orangefog
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I believe he had his fingers crossed when he promised not to tell. So, he's good.
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Decades, actually. For the most part, it's worked out pretty well.
It’s not a label, it’s a play style. If you’re going to just argue semantics and add no substance to a discussion then why bother responding? Do you think the play from the 1 has been good since ennis? That is because they haven’t had a real PG step foot on the court for significant time. Maybe Kadary was the closest? Outside of that, notta
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Agree 100%, Flynn, Carter- Williams- Pearl, Scoop, Gillon, All these guys could score/ handle and would say they were combo guards. We also have had a number of point forwards like Melo, Gbinje and others who could handle, score, and pass. The days of true PG play have mostly left the game with the 3 point line IMO.
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Come on. MCW and Pearl specifically were not combo guards. You consider Isiah Thomas or John Stockton a combo guard cause they could score too?
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I think for some, scoring guards = combo guards, though I don't even think that really applies to MCW. He was absolutely a pass-first guy. Was he even top 3 on our team in scoring that year? He was as good a distributor as we've had in awhile.
I also don't think being a combo guard is necessarily a bad thing. Assuming they can guard both positions, having a combo guard as your 2 is probably the ideal setup. Having them as your lead ball-handler/creator isn't ideal, but might be fine if the rest of the team is built to take on a larger portion of creation duties. That is definitely how I would categorize Leffew. As he'll likely be our lead ball-handler/creator, the question is if we have enough creation around him to sort of balance out those duties to create a good offense. I'm not really sure personally. I'm confident Lampkin can take some of the pressure off of Leffew's shoulders and I'm fairly confident Bell cannot. How much of that Freeman, JJ, Westry, etc. can handle will probably determine our fate (or Leffew simply improving a lot, which is entirely possible).
albanycuse
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Such a terrible point you’re trying to make. Tyler was an NBA player and very skilled. Recruiting this whole past decade pretty much has been the reason why the team hasn’t been good. We had no center worth anything for a long time too, you think that doesn’t kill the team.
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I don't care what the person comes in as long as they are a veteran calming influence on the team, can get us in and out of offensive sets, can break the press, and can knock down a jumper. I don't care if you call the kid a true point guard, a fake point guard, or a combo guard. Doesn't matter to me.
