Crapshoot

I think that despite all of our amateur second guessing, he's been pretty clear on it. Landon's the guy because he feels that he's the best option defensively and for rebounding to counter the other team's biggest guy. He's clearly thinking Bragg is further along than Diallo, and Mickleson for whatever reason is riding pine.

As I've said a billion times before, none of us are at practices, and we get to see 80 minutes of play every week compared to the 20-30 hours that the staff gets to see. Along with that, we're kept in the dark in regard to injury/health status and all kinds of other info.

Newell's story last week of Diallo making mistakes (along with the video analysis) is a perfect example of how in the dark we fans are. I know that I didn't know that the "2 sides" play involves a fake to the left corner and then a pass back to the right. The fact that Diallo consistently did it wrong was something I certainly wouldn't have picked up on. I doubt I'm alone in being relatively in the dark as to what most plays are supposed to look like until after they're run, and are making player assessments based more on ability to set good screens, move away from the ball, get open, box out, move feet, and other more individual things.

I also think that even some of the statistical stuff isn't 100% telling. Talking specifically about Traylor here in that despite some of the negative numbers, I do believe that he adds a level of intensity and experience that Bragg (too tentative), Diallo (too raw) and the others don't deliver.

".. . we're kept in the dark in regard to injury/health status and all kinds of other info."


"The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."

Thought for the day,

RC