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[QUOTE="Ward, post: 1665173, member: 1958"]
It's ridiculous to not include players who are [U]currently seniors in high school [/U]when evaluating how good our team [U]this year and last year [/U]was? You're right, saying Matt Moyer and Tyus Battle as juniors in high school and Paschal Chukwu suiting up for Providence last year was contributing to the program's wins and losses during the 2014-15 season makes total sense. That sounds sarcastic but that literally is the point you're trying to make which is mind boggling.

The last two years we have had thin stretch 4 freshmen as our back up center, or in the case of this year our primary center, and have had to teach a small forward how to be our primary point guard. Gbinije doesn't have to learn to be a pg on the fly and can play his natural position (same with McCullough and center to a smaller extent) if we do a better job at bringing in and developing players at those positions in prior years. Granted nobody could have predicted Coleman's injuries but that just makes it all the more important to have depth and players ready to account for something like that. However, this is also ignoring the year MCW and Triche were our only guards or Ennis was our only pg but we got really lucky with injuries and didn't get burned.

As I tried to explain before, Lydon and McCullough don't have to play out of position at center or Gbinije out of position at point guard if we do a better job at evaluating, recruiting, and developing talent the years prior. Who we brought in as a part of our 2015 and 2016 classes is not the point, especially the 2016 class which I'm shocked I even have to explain to you.
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