Yeah, and worth remembering that while Reece and Kihei had experience playing together it was honestly pretty terrible experience. Yet by the end of the season they were actually doing fine. Iām not enthusiastic about ANOTHER season of those two in the backcourt, but Iām honestly doubtful throwing Clarkās minutes at McNeely would produce better numbers in that spot this coming season.
Edit - Itād probably be better for down the road, but Iām less confident than Iād like to see after seeing what happened to Morsell.
Iāve spilled enough virtual ink on all this already, but the core 6 all had bad on court chemistry and I canāt see more time together changing that. But others disagree. And predicting the future is hard, so I could be wrong.
I also think that last yearās core 6 wonāt be next yearās core 6, even without Reneau or the crew of transfers that are being bandied aboutā¦
A scenarioā¦
Kids and families are smart ā¦ LJ hears Clark is returning. He knows as a PG that restricts and limits what Reece can do this year and how good heāll look to NBA types. Hence it means thereās a stronger chance Reece returns for year 4. No way LJ beats out a 4th year at PG - and not a great chance he beats out a 2nd year Isaac M, Taine, Dunn for starting guard minutes in 2023-24.
On the other hand he knows how good Reece would be with a real lineup around him and that would cause Reece to blow up this year and open the door for LJ to start at PG year 1. So Clark coming back does affect the decision - regardless of reclass or not.
Repurposing this as an optimism thread (donāt worry, only temporarily).
Reece, Shed, plus 2-3 of (Taine + 4 Frosh) plus 1-2 targeted transfers still seems like a final 4 core to me, for 23-24 and maybe 24-25
London mostly gave us a clear 24-25 option to extend that window, but thatās pretty far away
Donāt get scared away from top 30ish guys just because it didnāt work out with London.
UVa has proven itās a place where really good talent can play for a year or two and then wind up playing very well in the NBA. We shouldnāt shy away from selling that.
We WANT kids who want to get paid for playing hoops. Stop pretending otherwise.
With apologies to Mr Sabato, being paid for playing hoops is a good thing.
Happens lots of places where guys canāt pass coaches favorites for playing timeā¦ many reasons why a dude becomes a coaches favoriteā¦ but donāt act like recruits and transfers and their families and coaches canāt see it.
Okay whatās up with the weird buzz for today? Iāve seen multiple posts across these boards and the Sabre. And I donāt think they had to do with Johnson
What do you see on the Sabre? Z teased something yesterday but heās been teasing for a few weeks about transfer movement so might no be specific to today? Today is Good Friday, maybe Dave is just happy about that
Usage yes - player no ā¦ Love Clarkās effort and try hard mantra ā¦
Difficult for anyone in any job or task to be placed in a position to not optimize said personās contributions.
None of it is on Clark - who was never designed to be a 36 min a game guy.
By the way - neither was Ty or Guy or Malcolm or London ā¦ none of whom approached the sheer minutes per game Clark has had to bear.
Maybe Iām crazy - but donāt think anyone should play more than approx. 32 min game because the effort canāt possibly be there the whole time because of tiredness and potential fouls ā¦ if a guy knows he is gonna play that much - he will have to coast at points on one end or the other - whether because heās tired or because heās afraid to get in foul trouble. Or both.
