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(12-04-2016 12:47 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  

(12-04-2016 12:23 AM)BlazintheATL Wrote:  The lack of leadership on the floor is painfully obvious. I really think Nick was poised to take over this team from RB this year and when he went down there was no one to step up.

To be honest, I'm not a huge Norton fan. BUT, I think UAB would have won tonight and versus Furman with Nick on the floor. He may not be great but he's a good PG and floor leader. As you point out, there was no one to step up. Watching our back court this season, I have to question our recruiting and/or roster development. UAB went into this season with no real back up plan at a crucial position. Our back up point the last two seasons was out of shape and not even expected to play. We haven't signed another point since Norton and projecting Lavendar there was obviously a real stretch. Two straight classes without a real point guard is coming back to bite hard.

We had a guy we expected to play 30+ minutes a game for the next two years. Not exactly easy to recruit with that in place. Lavender is serviceable for the minutes norton wasn't there. What's done is done, we need to adjust our game plan at this point.

If you weren't a huge fan of norton before you probably should be now.....