Malachi started his freshman year by scoring in double digits the first six games, two of them against ranked times, before the slump you referenced. He is not actually an answer to the question that mason asked.
More generally, I think there’s a little straw manning going on, maybe on both sides. No one is trying to run Buddy Boeheim out of town. Every post I have seen has expressed confidence that he is going to be a good player for Syracuse; I think he might be a great one. But folks are expressing smidgens of concern about how things have played out so far and might play out in the future. Personally, I thought this was a final four caliber team coming into the season. I still think that, but the early showings have been a little underwhelming, and one of - and note that I said “one of”, not the only - diagnosable problems is that we’re playing a so far not terribly effective freshman guard heavy minutes.
Again, I am really high on buddy’s long term future. I also think that Howard coming back probably solves these problems, allows boeheim to settle into a limited but still useful role, and when boeheim has a 4-6 from three night in an acc game someone will post what an idiot I am. That’s all great!
