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It’s called player development. At least give the kids a chance to develop. The Greek kid tore his ACL. Tough injury especially for a big. Give him a chance to recover and earn some PT before u call him a bust. If he doesn’t show anything this year then that’s one thing. But I’d give the kid a chance at least. I think Zip and Reece both showed improvement. Kalu can play. Just has to figure out the mental. He produced in limited minutes. He may never play 30 min but I’d expect his 17 min to get up to 23 minutes or so.

If u look at the roster, ODU generally just lists players as guards and forwards. Y’all put way too much stock into what position a player plays. Guys just have to play together. If u look around the country there are a ton of teams playing 4 guards at the same time. Especially at our level where teams don’t have 3 good bigs like UVA or Mich St. This is just where we are. It doesn’t necessarily mean the 4th guard is playing the “4”. J Wade is a guard. Plain and simple. He’s a good ball handler. Can slash. Is a great perimeter defender and overall defender and rebounder. He’s still a guard even though he’s not a knockdown shooter. I will say he shot a bunch of free throws this year and got his numbers up to 66%. Not great but showed better form I thought. He had his best shooting stretch right before the injury as well. Bottom Line is we have to develop our talent.

Some of the guys I think of that showed great improvement...
Frank H
K Bazemore
Trey Porter
Joe Reece
Jason Wade

We will always have to develop our talent. That’s not changing regardless of conference affiliation or coach.