Jaelin Llewllyn done for the season with ACL Injury

Clearly other things going on beyond just PT

dug is way more shoot first pass later than i would like. dude is fast tho.

First post at 2:42.  Other three all at 2:43.  At least we can be sure someone who is on this blog is also watching everything happening everywhere.

We got folks here that could work for the New York Times!

Or at least you wouldn't want to tell them a secret...

kobe. good luck with that.

We have a ton of undersized 4’s though. When you could bring in Reed, Tschetter, Jace, Glenn, Khayat and possibly Barnes in place of T Will, you have way too many of that type of player. At point and shooting guard you had Jaelin, Dug, Kobe and maybe Jett total. Baker and Barnes are more wings than anything. 

I mean it’s not like Juwan isn’t recruiting guards. It’s his kryptonite. Can’t seem to close the deal. 

Yep, even with JL the roster was horribly flawed and it seemed like this team was going to struggle big time to make the tourney.  Now its just a completely lost season.  

We are a football school.

re: roster construction. LLewellyn was brought in to be the starter yes, but AFAIK he was to be the 3rd point guard, along with Frankie and Dug. That's enough. Of course, Frankie unexpectedly (to us at least) bolted the next day - this was end of April

Moussa and Caleb didn't declare for another month - June 1 - and it was mildly surprising, at least to us nobodies, that both left since neither were projected as more than mid-second rounders. 

So until they bounced, we didn't know if we'd have those roster spots open, then there was a mad rush to fill out the roster in June. You'd have to think they already had their eye on Baker, since we desperately needed shooting.

Which leaves the last minute signing of Khayat end of June. Could have gone for another PG but I guess with Khayat's upside and our general lack of bigs, it would be better than signing a 3rd PG or combo guard. Or maybe there just weren't any good PG options left at the time.

The roster construction is fine if Frankie doesn’t bail. 

where are walk ons CJ Lee and David Merritt when you need them?

It’s not just the point guard issue, the entire one through three are not position-less like we were told Juwan wanted his teams to be. Even a combo guard, which essentially Jaelin was, would be able to slide over. Now we are basically hoping Kobe and Jett can slide towards the 1-2 area and maybe Barnes steps up at the 3 to fill in gaps. 

Outisde of leaving early to play overseas, where was Hunter going to go? Even though he’s a great college player, he’s not a good NBA prospect and is a mid-second rounder at best.

It's not foregone, but boy does it look bad. No guard depth, their starting PG is now a 5'8 freshman who can't really shoot, Bufkin who can definitely handle but has been awful shooting, Barnes who is a 2/3 maybe more 3 and then nothing. They have the second or third worst NET rating so far, our best chance for a good out of conference win will probably be an unranked UNC team, and then we play a B1G which looks pretty good.

I mean it is hard to see a way forward when you second unit was already kind of a black hole  offensively at times and you don't even have a backup PG now. Bufkin is probably someone who can handle the ball a little more and you can do some point forward stuff with Jett but I don't see how a team with no backup PG gets enough wins in a tough conference to make the tourney.

Beilein's point guard recruiting and development was seriously underrated.

The guard recruiting has been a weak spot but if Frankie was still here it would be fine. You aren’t going to find many teams with more than 3 scholarship point guards on a roster and with bufkin being a combo guard that gives you four solid ball handlers in the rotation. I don’t know what people think our roster used to look like but that would have been fine.

the problem is obviously zeb not panning out and washing out and Frankie transferring in back to back years. 

And 45 mph in a 25 mph Zone, at times.

Quickest guard we have had since Ricky Green?

The problem is you have no other PG's even if Dug surprises. The only other guys who can  handle the ball are already in the starting lineup and you a had a bench that was having trouble scoring as is. I mean this team still has enough talent to not just get blown off the court completely in most games as we have saw the last two but we also saw a team that ran out of gas trying to finish the game because they don't have enough depth. I just don't see how that doesn't continue to be the trend all season with your depth even more depleted now.