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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5052197, member: 405"]
He was not the ball dominant guard, so of course he didn't generate many assists.  He was the guy who got us out on the break, kept the ball moving to the open man, and once in a while looked for his own shot.

Not a big guard, but he digs in on defense and moves his feet pretty well.  There's a lot to like in this player, and I think he still has 3 more years of eligibility.

Allen Griffin, Mike Gbinije, Gene Waldron, Frank Howard, Scoop Jardine, Jason Hart, Brandon Triche, Laz Sims; these guys were not starting level point guards right away. But they developed into pretty good ones for us in time.  Give Cuffe a chance. He's got legit talent. You need late bloomers on winning programs, too.  Like Baye Keita was so important in that respect for us.

Cuffe is a hard working guy.  He's been well coached. He plays the right way. You want guys like that on your team, and in practice every day.  He's a clear upgrade over somebody like Symir Torrence, a likable but offensively limited local kid.  He was a PG who was afraid to shoot, almost as bad as Justin Taylor.

Despite that one guy acting strangely about his recruiting in a discussion a week or so ago, Cuffe was in the #50-75, 4 star range coming out of HS in NJ. He went to Kansas, for goodness sakes.

Some people have made him out to be a Top 150+ kind of scrub.
Who somehow got recruited to a national championship team.
Yeah, he must have been a terrible prospect.
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