WAITE HOYT 2
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Jake in our program where one and doners are not commonplace making freshman earn their minutes is a good thing. I am not handing out starting assignments to kids that haven't played a minute of D-1 basketball. If his production is better then the guy he is playing behind then he will get the minutes. Lots of times there is more to the decision. Cumberland will also have to play the 3. He will get run. I just hope he is up for the challenge.Actually the Clark example is what's faulty. It was him or Moore, who was also a FR. But we've had this conversation before. Maybe lacking depth on the roster (again) will actually help Cumberland though (like it did Clark) bc ready or not, he'll have to play at least some.
That doesn't mean I don't want to see KJ elevate his game but your assumption that Mick will never play freshman or it is a good thing that a player was hurt because it forced him to play someone else is silly. As an example if Shaq was available and healthy against St. Joe's I think we would have won. Having someone spell Gary Clark in that game would of been much better then having him run around on one foot. Cronin doesn't set his line up by what year they are in. There is rationale involved. You can argue he hasn't met your expectations and we could do better but in the end he has mentored under 2 HOF coaches. Hugg's and Pintino. He started out as a video coordinator and has worked his way up to a 2.3 mil coach. He knows something about the game. I not trying to insight a debate on his virtues, to each his own but he isn't a moron. There is reasoning behind his decisions and he has much more data to make those decisions then we do.