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Another thing I find concerning is throughout all the preseason interviews you heard Dooley and the assistants in interviews hyping up how good newcomers like Baruti, JJ Miles, Robinson, and even a freshman Suggs have looked but you heard very little about Newton and Curtis. What little was said about them was stuff like they are talented but still growing and maturing, all the types of coach speak for these aren't guys you should expect a lot out of early. Then we have the secret scrimmage against State and the talk out of that was we out rebounded them by a pretty wide margin but turned it over a ton and they won fairly comfortably. The turnover part was a little surprising to me as I kinda have Jackson pegged as a guy who doesn't have the upside of Robinson but he's an older guy with some ACC experience and should be at the very least a capable ball handler. We find out later he didn't play in that scrimmage and it was just the 2 freshman PG's and then I'm thinking to myself "well yeah, of course, we turned it over a lot it was 2 freshman and not even being hyped up very much as being ready to play." In like the last week or so we've finally heard Dooley in some interviews saying how good Newton is looking, right at the same time it's being leaked that both Robinson and Jackson are "week to week" with their injuries. Week to week is way different than day to day. You could easily be talking they could be ready to play next week or not ready till December. Dooley was saying how much Newton has come along and grown in recent weeks in an interview the other day, and it could very well be true, or the cynic in me is thinking he could be trying to build his confidence publicly because he knows like it or not Newton is the starting PG for a while. I sure hope it's the former, because if it's the latter and Newton is a guy who in an ideal world wouldn't be playing right now it could be big trouble against what is an awful schedule in terms of SOS but unfortunately has only 2 home games out of the 8 games in the month of November. Even in the interview where Dooley was starting to finally hype up Newton he also was very clear as soon as Robinson is healthy he's the starting PG, and he hasn't practiced in like 2-3 months, so Newton is clearly not playing at some crazy level.
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