Local product Dre Mathieu with 27pts for Minnesota tonight

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He is averaging 10.5points, 5 assist and shooting 81ft%. He wanted a scholarship to Tennessee this past spring and some of us on this board were wanting it, Counzo didn't. I understand getting Barton, with him being more a sure thing. It hasn't worked out that way yet, but Dre wanted to be here and he was a Jr., not a one year rental. It's another long line of point guards that Counzo could possibly get.
He decides to go another direction. Let's look: Wes Washpun over Anthony Hickey at LSU, Armoni Moore over Fabyon Harris at Texas A&M. I believe anyone of those misses would have put Tennessee on the NCAA Tourney. I like Armani but he's not a PG. Finally signed a good one for next year in Larry Austin.
 
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Zo has proven to be pretty much clueless. The bigger question is besides him, who did not know that Dre could have helped this team? Probably a pretty small number.
 
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25 steals this year, 12 points a game average now - hitting 52% of his field goals, 54 % of his 3 pointers - assist to turnover ratio is freaking unreal -- and he is a local kid --- are u kidding me.

This is one of the biggest misses in the history of UT imo -- and making the dance with a pg of this caliber may not be an understatement.

From watching this kid and reflecting back on last year when Golden was playing well - part of our problem this year appears to be - tempo and our pgs are slow to get it up the court and distribute and move the ball.

Some armchair quarterbacking here - but come on - how do you not take this kid ?
 
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Lets hire Pitino. He and his dad build their offenses off aggressively attacking the basket and off their pg's. If the kid was at UT now, he wouldnt look the same while being handcuffed and offensively ruined.
 
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Fullfillmer said:
25 steals this year, 12 points a game average now - hitting 52% of his field goals, 54 % of his 3 pointers - assist to turnover ratio is freaking unreal -- and he is a local kid --- are u kidding me.

This is one of the biggest misses in the history of UT imo -- and making the dance with a pg of this caliber may not be an understatement.

From watching this kid and reflecting back on last year when Golden was playing well - part of our problem this year appears to be - tempo and our pgs are slow to get it up the court and distribute and move the ball.

Some armchair quarterbacking here - but come on - how do you not take this kid ?
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Then there is that whole spacing like a 6 yr olds soccer scrum thing and the dismal coaching in general to overcome but we needed this kid. I guess I have to start looking at it now like I did when Dooley made a bad hire or missed on a recruit - which was often.
 
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Spartacavolus said:
Lets hire Pitino. He and his dad build their offenses off aggressively attacking the basket and off their pg's. If the kid was at UT now, he wouldnt look the same while being handcuffed and offensively ruined.
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Pitino would be a great hire imo - I wouldn't want to pull a Kiffin on Minnesota - nor do I think Pitino would be a big enough weasel to leave after 1 year -- but Pitino would be a killer hire and somebody will be trying to steal him away from the Gophers down the road.
 
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Fullfillmer said:
Pitino would be a great hire imo - I wouldn't want to pull a Kiffin on Minnesota - nor do I think Pitino would be a big enough weasel to leave after 1 year -- but Pitino would be a killer hire and somebody will be trying to steal him away from the Gophers down the road.
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I hate to start speculating this early, but if Zo were to go, i'd love it if UT hired Gregg Marshall. He's been passed over for the UT job twice when he interviewed for it. He turned freakin' Winthrop into a mid-major powerhouse and has won big at every stop he's been at.
 
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Had offers from Memphis, Ole Miss and UCLA but not even recruited by his hometown team.

That's like Dooley level.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
Had offers from Memphis, Ole Miss and UCLA but not even recruited by his hometown team.

That's like Dooley level.
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the only thing I can think is that CM knows he doesn't run an offense where he wants the ball in the pg's hands to control a game. He wants it in the hands of the wing players and on the block. I think what has made me so truly mad to this point (never really been this mad about UT hoops, to be honest), is I see basketball in the quite opposite way of many of CM's thoughts and tactics and I know he's in the wrong. I just know it. And I think it shows in his mediocre career.
 
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I was impressed with him when we played them, 11 points with 6 assists and 5 boards

of course i couldn't stop thinking about the honey badger every time they called his name :yuck:
 
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