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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 2972732, member: 1674"] I think sacrificing offense or defense is something that impacts all teams. A better offensive scheme could cover up some of those short comings when we prioritize defense but basically every prospect requires you to sacrifice one or the other to some degree. Virginia for example in past years (not the case anymore) had very few skilled offensive guys. They just locked in defensively and Bennett’s schemes got people open enough offensively for them to win. Unfortunately Boeheim’s offensive schemes are far more reliant on talent and in the past 5 years, we haven’t really had the goods. I think a lot of it boils down to going after guys that we view as high ceiling guys that haven’t been developing the way we had hoped (I.e. Brissett and Battle flat-lining) as well as some flat out scouting misses and recruiting misses (Kaleb and Carey in year 1, missing on Quade (who would have fallen into that category with Ennis). Our failure specifically with the PG position has been particularly damaging IMO. If you can get the right PG (or really, a primary creator regardless of position) in place, everything else becomes so much easier. Those athletic guys we’ve brought in can get out in transition, our shooters can get the ball in rhythm, Dolezaj would be an excellent compliment to a good creator IMO. Unfortunately we’ve really struggled to bring in the right PG in recent years. Hopefully Goodine or Girard will end up being that guy but as much as I like them (and particularly love what I’ve seen of Goodine), I fear that both of them are better off as secondary creators rather than the initiator. Edit: Also, as far as MCW goes, the guys from DraftExpress for example touted his shooting range in high school. They did say he wasn’t a consistent shooter at the time but I think I’m retrospect everyone involved was relatively disappointed that he never became a decent shooter. [/QUOTE]

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