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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2095694, member: 716"] I don't think the system helps. Not if we're lumping player development under that header. A lot of people speak as if it was a foregone conclusion that Roberson and Howard were bad players destined to be non-contributors. The college basketball I grew up watching at Syracuse involved kids being coached up and improving over their careers. Roberson's showed skills. As recently as last season he made a higher percentage of his two-point jumpers than Cooney or Richardson. Howard's had his troubles and I'll concede that he's not the ballhandler that I thought he was, but he ought to be a contributor. He's a much better player than the guy who lets a pass skip off his hands and gets banished to the penalty box for several minutes. I agree that everyone would look better if, top to bottom, we had a group of better basketball players. But this coaching staff has not made the most of the pieces it brought in. [/QUOTE]