TYVM for the clarification – good to know!
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Is it too early to tell if he will be redshirted or not?
As long as Isaac’s healthy, he won’t be redshirting.
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It’ll be interesting to have taken a SG in 4 straight classes - Morsell, McCorkle, Murray, and now McNeely. I think early playing time may be limited for Issac, especially if JAR can lock down the starting role at the 3 by then.
The counter argument would be that Morsell and maybe Murray could be considered that “power guard” role and play the 3 and defend small forwards like a Brogdon or a Devon Hall. Either way, McNeely looks like he’d be good enough to contribute off the bench his 1st year.
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Yeah I’m just happy we are getting ball handlers and perimeter scorers. We just need two more Mama- D’s and Braxton Keys, who if we recall were very high 4 star recruits, so not exactly the easiest to find all of the time…
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If ACC Content says it it must be true
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Ive been calling it since the beginning he can be our jamal murray.
Probably not what the staff are envisioning LOL whenever I bug @HoozGotNext about it. But I see it.
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There was also this Borzello tweet talking about McKneely playing more of a lead-guard role, at least in this setting.
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I dunno if this is the specific case for McKneely’s AAU team, but the best guard on a team in this setting often ends up in an on-ball role, even if they are better off-ball. Top-75 guys don’t always have opportunities to run off pindowns and other screens in HS and AAU.
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To be clear I think he will do some distribution in the same way Kyle Guy did. But we clearly recruit for the point guard spot and he’s not gonna fill that role
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From The Athletic’s CJ Moore after last weekend’s Adidas event;
“One other player worth mentioning is Virginia-bound Isaac McKneely , a 6-4 combo guard. McKneely had the best combination of shooting, handle and feel of the guards I saw this weekend. He doesn’t quite have the vision and passing ability of former Cavaliers guard Ty Jerome, but he can slash and shoot like Jerome could and he’s a more explosive athlete. Virginia fans are going to love him.”
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Nice to read… But also reminds that Ty was really something special.
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This may be why we backed off Nunez… If he can play PG, it will add a ton of flexibility to the roster.
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Every time this thread pops to the top of the list I get confused and think Traudt committed.
I’m just ready for Isaac Squared to happen.
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HGN essentially warned us not to get caught up in any McKneely PG hype. He’ll be a secondary ballhandler for us. Most of these AAU teams have their best guard handle the ball but it typically doesn’t translate to being a PG in college. Doubt Isaac will spend many minutes without a true PG on the court with him.
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I think you’re spot on - if anything the shift to looking at a 2023 pg instead is probably from the increasing likelihood that Kihei stays.
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Internal sources say that they are not likely to want anyone to play 5 years - Clark, Stattmann, Caffaro.
They want to cycle to next group. Only technical exception is McCorkle who I don’t really consider as having played last year.
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Interesting because that’s not what HGN, Brad Franklin, or Oakes are reporting from their sources. Plus TB hasn’t really been spotted looking at 2022 PGs so far during live periods.
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