Hunter Reaffirms Commitment
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You'd rather he bring a 12th overall draft pick off the bench instead?
Thanks for sharing that. I like that it's not edited to be a highlight reel for him, yet he's all over in those highlights including several nice blocks.
Love this kid and glad he stuck with ISU. Such a huge win for the staff. Him and Foster can be a foundation you can build on.
The more I learn about Tyrese the more I like him. Seems like a really mature kid and has obviously gone through a lot. I have a feeling he will be easy to root for.
Starting Wigginton means benching either...
-- two fifth-year seniors, one of which played in the NBA and won first-team all-Big 12, and the other one has had a successful overseas career and was the only experienced PG on the roster
-- the 12th overall pick and a contender for NBA ROTY as a 20-year old
-- replacing the #4 recruit in school history, one drafted and who won an NBA ring... unlike Wigginton
This "Wigginton should have started!" meme is so old. He wasn't clearly better than any of those four.
Wigginton and THT couldn't be on the floor at the same time because there was only one ball. The real puzzling thing is Prohm starting Nick Babb at PG with Haliburton on the team. Haliburton was CLEARLY the best player on the team and he was forced to shooting guard or the bench to have Babb play out of position so THT and Wigginton could take turns trying to impress NBA scouts.
Then trying to have Wigginton, Horton-Tucker, AND Shayok out there at once... when there is, as you said, only one ball, and that means benching a willing passer in Nick or Tyrese... well, that would have been ugly.
Two ballhogs you can tolerate. But three is asking for trouble.
I don't see starting Nick as somehow a problem. PG was his natural position, and he was a pretty good one by college standards. I know Haliburton has turned into an NBA PG now, but we forget just how much he developed in his two years in Ames from skinny 17-year old who might have redshirted into budding NBA star.
Handing the keys to the offense to a true freshman like that when you have a fifth-year Nick around...
Not sure any coach was doing that. Prohm should be credited for inserting Tyrese into the starting lineup the second game of the season and never taking him out/playing him roughly 38 minutes per night.
Babb was a natural shooting guard. Haliburton an elite level PG. But that's why Steve Prohm is unemployed.
NWB was fine. Biggest problem that team had was the coach had no idea how to manage that kind of talent, let alone coach it. Prohm strategy that year was cross his fingers and hope these guys were good enough to coach themselves like the Georges/Monte/Naz/Matt team his first year. Those guys (18-19) were not as mature or experienced and just couldn't do that.
Yeah, the problem with that team wasn't talent, starting/not, or distribution of minutes.
It wasn't even Xs and Os.
It was ego. Prohm couldn't keep the team playing as a team with so many guys thinking next level.
Pop always said the hard part was dealing with the egos. Phil is a legend not because of the triangle but because he got Jordan/Pippen and Shaq/Kobe to play together with all the talent around them.
Then who do you bench?
I never get a straight or convincing answer for this.
Starting or not is zero-sum. You get five. So which five?
THT should not have started. He viewed his spot as a personal showcase to the NBA and nothing more. Haliburton, Wigginton and Shayock should have been the guards. If we were going to play 4 guards Babb was the next one. THT should have come off the bench for attitude alone. If anyone recalls the hook kept getting shorter on THT as the year went on.
are we really wanting to dive into this. I feel like this is beating a dead horse over and over and over again.
They (re-)started it. Wigginton is their martyr (for some reason).
Sometimes you gotta dig that horse up and beat it a few more times just to make sure it’s dead.
All the threads about our weekend signees are just more bashing of former coaches and players
