I cannot say I disagree. But keeping players who many on here thought weren't good enough isn't the answer then right?
won't try to answer for country because we already know his taste in breakfast food, but i do think this gets to be a bit of a double edge sword
there just hasn't been the consistent development of young players where they are contributors. what we don't know overall is this the result of a lack of talent, lack of player development, poor system fit, lack of patience, or something else?
at some point though, for this program to have sustainable success the young players have to start sticking, start improving, and it doesn't have to take 4-5 years for a player to develop
example i thought about earlier today. skip mentioned the tendency of miles to play right hand dominant and said it was a concern in miles setting himself up to get his shot off. one of the things dixon did was put the ball in rj's hands and this allowed miles to get himself set at times to be in catch and shoot situations versus having to create off the dribble
compare this with the evolution of jalen suggs over the season for gonzaga, suggs in high school over matched most guards he faced and would go 90 to nothing to blow by people
watching a number of gonzaga games they would talk about how few and his staff were working with suggs to vary his pace to try to stay in control on the drive, make himself even more explosive, and add a mid range pull up to add a third weapon to his game
in the zags last three games you could see see the areas of his game that they had been working on and he responded with three highly productive games
obviously there is more than what we see and i am not saying miles or the tcu staff isn't working with players. simply, that we have not seen that consistent growth in young players.