Mark Bradley

By GTBL

January 25, 2009 6:09 PM | Link to this

Tech will only have him for 1 year. Hopefully CPH will know how and when to use him. Hate for this to be a wasted recruiting class.

By matt r

January 25, 2009 6:09 PM | Link to this

“He’s so good he might even make Paul Hewitt seem smart again”… for only one year.

By Michael Cox

January 25, 2009 6:25 PM | Link to this

uh……it’s BASKETBALL! Who gives a rip? The foul call in that sport makes it unwatchable! And before some of you try to compare it to ol holding, it’s not even close!! The foul call in basketball “constantly” changes the dynamic of the game. OL holding is one aspect of many parts of the game. Hell….even baseball is more entertaining! As long as there’s subjective foul calls I’ll never make it through a game. It’s why the NBA is marely a blip on the radar down here! Good for Favors….but I got to say,”who is he and why should I care!” It’s basketball……….

By jojatek

January 25, 2009 6:26 PM | Link to this

“One and done” has become a bit of a tradition at Tech… let’s get back to building a program that competes year-in and year-out and stop talking about how many high school kids we send to the NBA…

By GTBL

January 25, 2009 6:27 PM | Link to this

To Michael Cox,

You cared enough to respond.

By Bruce Wayne

January 25, 2009 6:34 PM | Link to this

No one can fool me into thinking Hewitt can coach at D1/ACC level again, that curtain is permanently drawn back.

By bh

January 25, 2009 6:44 PM | Link to this

just by looking at the way they played, you know if that coach can coach.

By okeefe59

January 25, 2009 7:07 PM | Link to this

Favors may be a good guy but he will not be good for GT. We need consistency and longevity and Favors is one and done……I think this is a mistake for the GT program.

By okeefe59

January 25, 2009 7:15 PM | Link to this

To jojatek I couldn’t agree more.I’m tired of these 1 year wonders at Tech.I would much rather see us compete year in year out and maybe sneek in a conference championship now and then ,than to see the crud we have seen the last few years.This has NOT been go for GT.

By GameTime

January 25, 2009 7:17 PM | Link to this

Hope he’ll work on his foul shooting so that won’t be a libility when teams try to mug him. Right now he’s got too much body movement at the line.

By GTbeesball

January 25, 2009 7:23 PM | Link to this

Quit crying about the 1 and done’s at GT. You cannot blame the coach/program for recruting the best players in the country. Blame the NCAA for such a crappy rule. I, for one, do not know why the NCAA has the right to tell a man he does not have the right to make a living when he turns 18.

By Rob

January 25, 2009 8:23 PM | Link to this

even Favors can’t save Paul Hewitt

By GM

January 25, 2009 9:01 PM | Link to this

Last in the ACC in free throw shooting. Last in turnover/assist margin. It’s going to take more than a recruiting class to save Hewitt. Not even Obama-mania could make Hewitt smart again.

By EW

January 25, 2009 9:11 PM | Link to this

Mr. Cox…why do you dislike basketball? Maybe, as a kid you were not picked to play? You sound like a frustrated wanna be, who clearly watches enough to understand some facets of the game, however did not posses the ability to play the game. One day you will recognize that the NBA is certainly the league of elite athletes(along with the NHL) on this planet.

By jw

January 25, 2009 9:15 PM | Link to this

If we had a good coach players might stay like they do at Duke and NC. With Hewitt why would you expect them to stay.

By Mark Bradley

January 25, 2009 9:50 PM | Link to this

It’s not the NCAA that’s saying a guy can’t go pro at 18. It’s the NBA.

By Fire Hewitt

January 25, 2009 10:07 PM | Link to this

Favors will only help if he can coach the team. Hopefully Hewitt will resign after his 0-16 season and let someone good take over so he can put all of his focus on the BCA. The team finally quit on Hewitt tonight and he needs to go.

By Mark Bradley

January 25, 2009 10:09 PM | Link to this

There’s no way Hewitt resigns, and there’s no chance he gets fired, either. None.

By Dave

January 25, 2009 10:16 PM | Link to this

Mark, I’m curious as to why you think there is zero chance Hewitt resigns or is fired. GT could be on their way to an 0-16 ACC season. Why do you think Hewitt’s job is so safe, and just what will it take for his job to be in jeopardy?

By Devil Lover

January 25, 2009 10:16 PM | Link to this

If he is so good why can’t he put his team on his shoulders and win a state championship?????????

By GO JACKETS

January 25, 2009 10:18 PM | Link to this

BASKETBALL IS SPORTS!!!!!

By The Bitter Gus

January 25, 2009 10:19 PM | Link to this

Tech has finished more than 2 games over .500 in ACC regular season play just once (1995-6 with Starbury) since Marc Price and John Salley left TECH in 1986.

Think about that for a second!!!!!!!!

TRANSLATION: Tech Hoops is a dead product.

College Basketball is so totally broken is is pathetic beyond any hope.

By Gordon

January 25, 2009 10:19 PM | Link to this

Mark,

We know your feelings about Felton. I’m looking forward to your promised Hewitt column. I will find it very disappointing if he doesn’t make staff changes after this season. Because of Tech’s finances and the incoming class I agree that Hewitt is safe for now, but next year much more will be expected, and talent alone won’t solve the problem. We have better than last place talent now, but there we sit.

By Mark Bradley

January 25, 2009 10:24 PM | Link to this

There’s no question Tech has better talent than at least four ACC teams. The Jackets were, as I recall, picked to finish eighth, not last.

And I will get around to addressing Hewitt soon. I promise.

By EW

January 25, 2009 10:37 PM | Link to this

Devil Lover???

Favor’s quest for a state championship is not over. Clearly you were not aware. Also, state champions are crowned because of “teams”, not “I”. I can only imagine you never played “the game”.

By Mark Bradley

January 25, 2009 10:39 PM | Link to this

I’d be surprised if South Atlanta doesn’t win Class AAA this time. Michael Reddick is a good coach, and there’s more to his team than Derrick Favors, believe it or not.

By ACC Record

January 25, 2009 10:47 PM | Link to this

The best Hewitt has done in the ACC is 9-7 and 8-8. The ACC is brutal, but quit defending a coach that had one great NCAA run and a few good recruiting classes.

The rest of the resume is bubble city baby or worse. Is a bubble team all we can hope for at GT? Is this David Braine syndrome all over again?

By chad

January 26, 2009 12:23 AM | Link to this

fire hewitt please he has no place in our program.

By Chris G.

January 26, 2009 12:35 AM | Link to this

Mark Bradley we hear this every year. We know Derrick Favors is good but he has no championships to show for it. I know if you say South Atlanta will win the championship your hoping you will get it right one year. He will be a star in the future but the fact is that watching them play especially the Leflore game you could see they rely on him too much. His teamates kind of sit there at times and watch him go to work. It will cost them in the state playoffs. I’m not hating on him I know he is a great players but not all great players win championships. Maybe he will prove me wrong but that hasn’t happened in previous years

By Chris G.

January 26, 2009 12:36 AM | Link to this

Mark Bradley we hear this every year. We know Derrick Favors is good but he has no championships to show for it. I know if you say South Atlanta will win the championship your hoping you will get it right one year. He will be a star in the future but the fact is that watching them play especially the Leflore game you could see they rely on him too much. His teamates kind of sit there at times and watch him go to work. It will cost them in the state playoffs. I’m not hating on him I know he is a great players but not all great players win championships. Maybe he will prove me wrong but that hasn’t happened in previous years

By Chris G.

January 26, 2009 12:37 AM | Link to this

Mark Bradley we hear this every year. We know Derrick Favors is good but he has no championships to show for it. I know if you say South Atlanta will win the championship your hoping you will get it right one year. He will be a star in the future but the fact is that watching them play especially the Leflore game you could see they rely on him too much. His teamates kind of sit there at times and watch him go to work. It will cost them in the state playoffs. I’m not hating on him I know he is a great players but not all great players win championships. Maybe he will prove me wrong but that hasn’t happened in previous years

By gt fan

January 26, 2009 1:08 AM | Link to this

jojacket had it right… lets go back to building our team like clemson did their team.

imo…

phew is not the great recruiter ya’ll make him to be.

-when is the last time he found a diamond in the rough. NEVER.

-does ph find talent or does he take the lazy way out and look at the recruiting mags? i dont think he is lazy i just think he wouldnt know talent even if it hit him in the face. our mix and match teams and poor chemisty bear that out.

-i could recruit players to come to gt for heaven’s sake. great education/in atlanta/the state of ga has top hs talent year in and year out/acc/top media market/nba team/hang with nba players an stars.

d favors was qouted as saying that he liked GEORGIA better but picked gt. say what? couldnt be the nba/media factor could it? nahhhhh.

the last time we had a ‘great’ coach like phew was when we had bill lewis. remember? bl was exposed when the real reasons for his success stayed at wcu. well the last time phew looked great was right before he lost his two assistants in 04. so much for the BCA eh?

bobby manned up and stepped down. tommy bowden manned up and stepped down.

shouldnt phew do the same?

By gt fan

January 26, 2009 1:37 AM | Link to this

bitter gus you dont know what your talking about. the acc was tuff top to bottom back then during bc’s first 9 years. not watered down like now. there were better coaches ie dean smith, lefty drissel and the guy from nc state for instance.

also, bc was competing for 1 of 48 ncaa spots i think before they expanded to 65. apples n oranges dude.

as far as phew getting fired…. we are stuck. phew’s contract ‘auto renews itself’ as in drad has NO control over the bb progam at present. thanks to dave brainless.

AND why would a coach who just stated that the team is playing well resign? 0 for 7 in the acc and playing well? near the bottom of the country in ft ave. we ave 20 to’s a game. we are the worst 3pt shooting team in the conf and we are playing well? sounds pretty damn arrogant to me.

in reality the bigger priority for phew is the BCA. as mark said there is no way phew resigns. his connection to the BCA wont allow for that to happen or his ego. gt is NOT phew’s top priority.

i have been saying that for awhile now an its finally sinking in.

phew does not LOVE gt like bc did and never will. to him gt is a means to an end and nothing more.

the only hope i see is embarassing him so bad that he resigns. its time to bring out the dwayne morrison bags.

By Submariner683

January 26, 2009 7:56 AM | Link to this

This year is a disaster. Mr Bradley stated that the talent level on this team is better than at least 4 other ACC teams. I agree and it is probably better than a few more. The last few Bobby Cremins’ teams were almost completely devoid of talent. This one is not. Many teams would love to have two McDonald’s All-Americans in their starting line up. Unless you’re Duke or UNC which that would be a downgrade from the five starters and 2-3 on the bench of McDonald’s All-Amercians.

A great recruiting class is coming in next year, but with one and done Favors, how much of a difference is it going to make? I don’t see five freshman making a big impact to turn this team into a 20-game winner and NCAA bracket buster. Javaris and Thadeus Young had no business going to the NBA after the average freshman years they had. Young appears to have made the right move, Javaris has not. I hate the state of basketball, both those players should still be here.

I wish the NBA would have been more stern and made it at least two years if not three years out of high school like the NFL has. The early departures have destroyed programs and given the college game little star power and continuity. The NBA has not benefited because of the influx of young talent with no skill development and mostly just street ball skills.

As far as whether Paul Hewitt should stay or go, I’m not sure. I don’t think you’re going to find a coach that attracts the talent he does to a program that has been at best mediocre since the 2004 Championship run. Maybe Tech could get a better X’s and O’s coach but I’d be suprised if the talent recruited would be as good. So in the end, it might be a wash.

By Mark Bradley

January 26, 2009 8:20 AM | Link to this

Repeat: Paul Hewitt isn’t going to resign. He just got a vote of confidence from his AD, didn’t he?

By bd

January 26, 2009 8:46 AM | Link to this

Tech is playing terrible basketball but I think we need to give Hewitt a couple of more years because the team plays hard and hasn’t quit yet. We’ve lost 4 close ACC games (3 in OT) and are very competitive. Losing Bell and Dickey hurt this team. A couple of years ago we started the ACC 0-7 and finished 7-9 so let’s see what happens. I bet we play spoilers a couple of times down the stretch this year.

By Jim 70

January 26, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

In Cremin’s last years at Tech, he seemed to spend most of his time recruiting the one and done players, which Hewitt hasn’t done. Yes, he did go strong after JC who really shouldn’t have gone pro so soon, and Bosh who said he wasn’t a one-and-done.

What I like about the incoming recruiting class is, with the exception of Favors, are all highly rated but not one-and-dones. Reminds me of the class when we got BJ Elder.

What I do fault about Paul is that his recruiting seems to be sporadic. He has had some good recruiting classes where he has brought in three or four solid players, and then, like this year, Iman is the only real recruit. Hopefully the year after this he will have some decent talent coming in, versus relying on this class to carry him for three or four years.

By GT66

January 26, 2009 9:13 AM | Link to this

How much more evidence do we need. Hewitt cannot coach. The record is the record, take a look at it. It is ugly and proves he cannot coach. We need to take our complaints to the AD and school president. The AD is at drad@athletics.gatech.edu

By brian

January 26, 2009 9:52 AM | Link to this

Unfortunately I have to agree with Mr Bradley, we are stuck with Hewitt due to two major factors 1) money - everyone else in the world is cutting jobs and saving money, the last thing Tech can do is buy out a coach and then go sign another one for big $$. The coffers are empty after Gailey and CPJ, and 2) the recruiting class, that will give him a chance to have even better athletes and still under-perform. I will bet anyone willing to take my $1 bet that he goes after a train wreck season next year. And I think there is a 2a that nobody likes to admit: the BCA thing will make Tech look very bad if we fire him. The blackmail threat is there. Which I highly resent, but the facts are the facts.
Look we could be .500 in the ACC if we played fundamentally sound basketball (turnovers, free throws, appropriate clock and timeout management, inbounding, switching on screens). But we don’t. The sad part is we have to endure a less than mediocre coaching staff for another 1.5 years. DRad took care of his #1 priority, which was a football coach and bringing life back to the program. Now he has to get around to #2, which is basketball, but we can’t do it all at once.
Due to all this, I am sad as an avid Tech fan. I used to love going to basketball games. There is nothing like a great ACC game in the Coliseum. But that has been lacking for awhile. I can’t even recall the last time the place was truly LOUD and excited at a game. And I can barely muster enthusiasm for going to home games anymore.
I think I will play golf instead of torture myself this Saturday with the Wake game. At least I can get some enjoyment out of a sad showing of talent (my golf game vs tech bball). I have 2 tickets if anyone wants them. I will leave them in the pile that seems to form outside of Gate 1 every game.

By T B HOGG

January 26, 2009 10:02 AM | Link to this

It is time for DRAD to take action. Paul Hewitt has got to go. We need a coach who can field a team who plays together and is at least competitive otherwise fan support will evaporate.

By taxistan

January 26, 2009 10:08 AM | Link to this

Reasons why Paul Hewitt can’t coach.

1- The whole team can’t hit a free throw to save their lives.

2- Players under PH do not improve from year to year.

3- They have no continiuity on offence. They play street ball

I will give PH credit in that the team trys very hard pretty consistantly on defence.

By GSHatchAttack

January 26, 2009 10:22 AM | Link to this

TO THE HYPOCRITE (A.K.A mark bradley),

You sir are quite a bandwaggoner (sp?)… “[Paul Hewitt] just got a vote of confidence from his AD didnt he?”

YES HE DID. THE SAME VOTE THAT GOT GAILEY A CONTRACT EXTENSION RIGHT BEFORE HE GOT CANNED.

Open your eyes, Mark. Hewitt isnt losing to UGA… hes losing to THEM and EVERYBODY else in the ACC, SEC, etc…

Hewitt has one year (next year) to prove himself. Then he is gone to be replaced with the basketball equivalent of CPJ.

GO JACKETS!!!

By sidewalk74

January 26, 2009 10:25 AM | Link to this

My reaction to this quote, “He’s so good he might even make Paul Hewitt seem smart again.” NOBODY IS THAT GOOD! 18 games under .500 in the ACC over his career. will be 25+ games under .500 by the end of the season may 30. Even if they go 16-0 next year with Favors he will still be a loosing ACC coach. He has to GO! THWG

By Mark Bradley

January 26, 2009 10:33 AM | Link to this

How am I a hypocrite for saying that a coach who just got a vote of confidence isn’t apt to resign of his own accord?

If he resigns, he doesn’t get the $7 million he’d get if he got fired.

By brian

January 26, 2009 10:38 AM | Link to this

Unfortunately I have to agree with Mr Bradley, we are stuck with Hewitt due to two major factors 1) money - everyone else in the world is cutting jobs and saving money, the last thing Tech can do is buy out a coach and then go sign another one for big $$. The coffers are empty after Gailey and CPJ, and 2) the recruiting class, that will give him a chance to have even better athletes and still under-perform. I will bet anyone willing to take my $1 bet that he goes after a train wreck season next year. And I think there is a 2a that nobody likes to admit: the BCA thing will make Tech look very bad if we fire him. The blackmail threat is there. Which I highly resent, but the facts are the facts.
Look we could be .500 in the ACC if we played fundamentally sound basketball (turnovers, free throws, appropriate clock and timeout management, inbounding, switching on screens). But we don’t. The sad part is we have to endure a less than mediocre coaching staff for another 1.5 years. DRad took care of his #1 priority, which was a football coach and bringing life back to the program. Now he has to get around to #2, which is basketball, but we can’t do it all at once.
Due to all this, I am sad as an avid Tech fan. I used to love going to basketball games. There is nothing like a great ACC game in the Coliseum. But that has been lacking for awhile. I can’t even recall the last time the place was truly LOUD and excited at a game. And I can barely muster enthusiasm for going to home games anymore.
I think I will play golf instead of torture myself this Saturday with the Wake game. At least I can get some enjoyment out of a sad showing of talent (my golf game vs tech bball). I have 2 tickets if anyone wants them. I will leave them in the pile that seems to form outside of Gate 1 every game.

By CC

January 26, 2009 10:46 AM | Link to this

I know we can’t help it — this has turned from being about Favors to being about Hewitt.

Since we’ve gotten here then, this quote from the latest article on Tech’s loss to Clemson is * very telling*, I think.

Coach Hewitt says — “We just do some young things,” Hewitt said. “Instead of getting to the next play or making the next play, we just bail out, almost. ‘Let me just do this. The ball’s here. Let me just throw it up and see what happens.’”

By that statement at the end, Hewitt has just admitted that he hasn’t taken and molded the minds of his players. I can’t tell you how many time I yell at the TV screen - “You’re triple teamed under the basket. You HAVE NO SHOT. Kick the ball out to the top.”

Team sports is like the military - you MUST take control and mold thinking so everyone knows what to do in a given situation as a unit. Not only do WE believe that has not happened with this Tech team — the coach has said so as well.

And he still gets paid. And Andruw Jones get his millions for NOT playing. And Francouer expects he’s due a several hundred percent increase in pay for grossly declining numbers.

And they get it.

And I give up. What galls me is that rarely does a sports writer (wink wink… HELLOOOO) take these folks to task. But then, if all was really running in tip-top shape in the sports world, writers wouldn’t have the readership (wink wink). And without controversy, writing is kind of…… oatmealish.

It’s not writers that make the product - but the other way around.

By Mark Bradley

January 26, 2009 10:50 AM | Link to this

And I don’t recall Dan Radakovich ever giving Gailey a similar vote of confidence. And it wasn’t Radakovich who handed Chan the new contract in November 2005 — it was Dave Braine.

By Chris G.

January 26, 2009 11:12 AM | Link to this

Derrick Favors is in his Senior year and has how many state championships? Try zero!!!!!!!!! They will choke again. South Atlantans stop getting your hopes up again just to see it got up in flames once again. Favors won’t win a championship this year and Georgia Tech is not going to get him a ring either. Why would a guy that is supposed to be this great pick Tech out of all the schools he could go to. He picked one of the worst schools in the ACC. They are a joke this year. If he would have went to North Carolina he would start next year. Tyler H. is a Senior. DUH!!!!!!! Poor choice of school in Tech

By Born2Buzz

January 26, 2009 12:12 PM | Link to this

Mark, you are right, Hewitt will never resign, and due to the $7M left on his contract DRAD cannot fire him right now. He is here through next year at the least.

Yes, this GT team has more talent than Maryland, NC State, BC and Virginia. They have more athletic ability than Duke and more talented big men. I’d say with the exception of UNC we match up physically with any team in the ACC. So why are we so awful?

I could look this up myself but maybe someone knows off the top. Who are the assistant coaches Hewitt had when he first came to GT that have left? That is the only thing that I can come up with as to why his coaching has regressed so much. There are so many flaws in what this team does on both the offense and defensive end that there must be a lack of coaching.

Favors may be fantastic, and apparently we have 4 more recruits that are top notch, but someone has to be a leader of all these kids or they will just underachieve as we have done since ‘04.

By Mark Bradley

January 26, 2009 12:17 PM | Link to this

Dean Keener left Tech to coach James Madison after the 2004 season. Cliff Warren left to coach Jacksonville in 2005.

By Jawgadawgs

January 26, 2009 2:20 PM | Link to this

Who knew there were Tech fans were just as racist as Dawg fans.

By brian

January 26, 2009 2:44 PM | Link to this

Jawgadawgs, I don’t see any racism here, not sure where you are getting that. You Bulldogs have a good lock on that and you can keep it.

The only angle of race has been brought in by Hewitt himself and his own BCA connections and comments.

Nobody I know cares a lick about his race or brings it up - we didn’t have issues like you guys did with Tubby. Who, speaking of, I’d love to have as our coach….

By ProudTechFan

January 26, 2009 4:14 PM | Link to this

I wish people would look at the entire landscape this year at Tech before they jump down Hewitts back. He currently has five walk ons at Tech this season. This is due to a multiple of reasons. He had players out for injury and academic reasons (clinch, bell, and mo miller for almost a month). I love shumpert but he does what most freshman in the ACC do, and thats make mistakes. Players leaving early (technically this should be Crittenton and Youngs junior year., and should be Rashaun Dickey last year of eligibility, they are all gone. Just so happens this year has evovled into the perfect storm. I am not saying Hewitt should be let off the hook, but I do think he is truly doing the best with what he has to work with. He cant make the players make key free throws, i know its frustrating to watch, and I am willing to bet almost anything that they work on free throws in practice constantly. The turnovers are a direct correlation of lack of communication and cohesiveness with his players, and that i do blame squarely on Hewitt. Something isnt registering with the players and its something Hewitt has to address quickly. And i dont care that some “experts” say we are the eighth best team in the ACC, because these are the same guys that picked our football team to finish last and we had the best second best record in the conference. This proves sometimes the “experts” are a little off their game.

As fans what kind of player do we really want. For the past two decades Ga Tech has been known for putting players in the NBA. We are third to Duke and UNC of course in putting players in the league. That is a very good reputation to have. Now if coach Hewitt didnt go after the top recruits in his own state let alone his own city (see Crittenton, Favors, Rice, Aminu) then the fanbase would be yelling, “why cant Hewitt get the top recruits to play for Tech”. He obviously has had success at recruiting, and recruiting the best players in the region (see next years recruiting class). His problem is getting kids to stay longer than the year required by the NBA. Its a problem I hope he can get a grasp on soon, or at least find ways to maintain any success once the top players leave.

By GT66

January 26, 2009 4:57 PM | Link to this

ProudTechFan you and others like you just do not get it. You have laid out all the typical excuses. The head coach is responsible for all the things you mentioned. Even when his recruits stayed in school his record was still bad. When he had Bosh as an example his record still was not very good. He has a losing ACC record over 9 years so will you and others claim he has been effected by a perfect storm for 9 years? He is a loser and lousy coach and the facts support that with every game and every season.

By WTH

January 26, 2009 5:39 PM | Link to this

I don’t care how many players that Georgia Tech has sent to the NBA. We are a college basketball team, not an NBA farm team.

Hewitt should go work as an NBA recruiter - clearly he has talent in that area. But as a head coach? Forget it.

By Willy

January 26, 2009 6:13 PM | Link to this

Chris G how about you shut up? UNC was 8-20 not to long ago and they landed big time prospets still. Favors, Lawal, Shumpert, Udofia, Bell we will be good next year. And for this person who said he couldn’t coach because Hewitt’s players don’t get better is obviously retarded? How about Gani Lawal and Alade Aminu? That’s what I thought……

By Jacketman

January 26, 2009 7:32 PM | Link to this

Maybe Rad cannot fire Hewitt. Maybe the contract situation prevents that. Each game we are having more and more empty seats. People are becoming more and more discouraged with the direction of the program. Clearly it is not successful and all indications are that more recruits will not solve the problem.

If Hewitt must stay, maybe RAD should hire good coaches under him to keep the program from deteriorating more than it already has. If Hewitt does not like it, he can resign.

By JZdude

January 26, 2009 8:18 PM | Link to this

Next year will be an improvement, I think there is no doubt. Put Derrick in there with Lawal, and you definitely have something in the post. But really, that is it. We just do not have any guard play. MU will be a great addition in the backcourt, but he will not be able to solve all GT’s problems in his first year. Why can’t PH understand that 6-6 sf’s are not the answer? I guess since he had success with that at Cienna, he thinks that is the answer and has been chasing that formula ever since. Until we get 6-1/6-2 quick guards that can penetrate and dish, we will be what we are. Iman S is a good player and WILL get better despite Hewitt.

By Big Man

January 27, 2009 12:20 AM | Link to this

Mark, Derrick Favors is no more versatile than Dwight Howard was. Dwight was a PF prospect that could handle the ball in high school. He got with a trainer and added about 20-25 lbs of muscle before the draft and became a Center. I think the difference in the 2 is that Dwight was better offensively and Derrick is better defensively than Dwight was at this stage.