What happened to Phillips?

I can’t really tell with how little he’s been playing this year but I sort of see where you’re coming from.

I think he needs to be playing a few more minutes per game but I understand wanting to get Harris minutes to mature as he has a much higher ceiling.

Also, Geist is shooting 52% from the field and 47% from 3 this year. I guess that WV meltdown is what did me over with him. He is playing pretty well though.

Phillips is pressing NOT to make a mistake when he’s in the game. New coach syndrome.
Puryear is just nonexistent. He got stuffed at least 3 times that I can remember last night.

What’s up with refs not letting the players play? Seemed like a lot of bad breath fouls were called.

my theory: he looked good last year because he was around lesser talent. Now that theres talent hes trying too hard and forcing the ball over.

Refs are ruining college basketball. NCAA wants offense, but fouling out everyone's bigs doesn't really help that. Also taking away 5 second call is really what put me over the edge. The NCAA has decided they don't want defense in the game. Really unfortunate since in basketball defense is what the foundation of a team should be built on. That's why it's become so difficult to win on the road as well. Defense travels, but not when they call every touch foul throughout a game. Officials are also calling a lot of fouls that have no outcome on the play whatsoever.

I think we are quickly approaching the point where Phillips is going to be asked to transfer following this year which is just really a shame.

Almost assuredly going to add another PG in this cycle with the ball handling issues we have had, and I can't really see us carrying 4 scholarship point guards.

Unless he gets his degree at the end of the school year, TP isn't going anywhere.

I meant with the one we will add during this cycle. Harris, Geist, Phillips, new addition

That's too many.

The other option would be to not add one, but with the trouble we've had handling the ball...no Robertson next year...

We will desperately need some ball handling.

Yeah, I disagree. Unless we see some vast growth from Harris then we most certainly need to take another ball handler.

We also lose the only two consistent scorers on the team, so we definitely need some help on the perimeter.

I doubt we get Ramey as well, but we definitely need to add a guard. Santos is an athletic wing and has a pretty nice shot, but he's not a guy that creates off the bounce. He's a lot like Barnett in that regard.

I can't see any need to go after another wing. One of our biggest issues, putting aside ball security, is that we don't really have many guys that can create off the dribble. Harris and Robertson occasionally, and the latter is leaving. I'm not expecting much from Pickett, but hopefully he's better than expected.

I wouldn't mind another grad transfer guard, but at some point we are going to have to get a longer term solution. We have to get some quickness and ball handling on this roster.

The long term solution is Watson.