Hard to blame all this on someone else....
-Donivine Stewart was brought in as PG then sent packing
-Devon Hodges was brought in to help in the paint then never played & was sent packing
-Jalen Crawford was thought to be a great scorer but sent packing
-Shayok was versatile and a great scorer but sent packing
-Barnes brought in as a PF then changed to a SF/wing player - now embarrassing legal issues
-Anthony Fields brought in to play point guard - but is a flop
-Tucker signed then lost when he was kicked out of QEA Academy
-Swopshire was our next great scorer then sent packing
-Chris Blake was literally the best of the big men Geno brought in over his first FOUR years and was a starter but Geno made two horrible mistakes on Chris Blake - first he was a terrible DI player but didn't matter anyway as he wasn't eligible beyond a year and Geno did not know that! How can we NOT know that?
-Zecevic was recruited sight-unseen for his scoring ability - then sent packing when he couldn't score
-Macari Brooks was recruited & offered then the scholarship had to be withdrawn when Brooks failed to qualify - again, kinda confusing that we didn't know that...
-Kendahl Amerson was recruited as a scorer and yet GF didn't know 'til two months after he was here that he was ineligible - how does that happen? This is like the 3-4th time this kind of recruiting blunder occurred
-GF offered two dozen kids with the current open scholarship for fall 2014 - but couldn't get even one kid to bite - so we totally struck out - now back to cleaning house in the spring & reloading with whatever's left over...
-Grier was a fairly ineffective shooter his whole first season
-Ka'Darryl Bell was recruited as a point guard but it took a couple years for Geno to realize he can't play point guard - we now see complaining because we are forced to play the guy we recruited as a point guard AT POINT GUARD!
-Walt Lemon was the best shooting guard Geno has had yet he played him out of position at point guard
-the rest have been at best marginally effective and time will tell - but .....
We still lack the SAME basic three pieces that we have desperately needed since 2011...
we have NO solid point guard, no reliable 3-point shooter, and no effective low post player who can score and play some defense!
So much for the lame arguments that if we just wait long enough for the current staff to get their own players, we'd be competing for championships. Funny how the only player to give us any spirited effort last Friday was Nate Wells - the only guy the current staff cannot claim full credit for bringing in here.
Still holding out hope - but more and more hoping for the major changes that are necessary before the arena is completely empty.
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