Kemy and Stetson

Sitting out a year is not the worst thing that can happen to a player. For one thing, he becomes older and stronger, and hopefully more mature. But another aspect is just the learning curve. There are times when you can learn much more from a bird's eye view than from the trenches. If these guys spent the season watching closely, analyzing what they saw, and learning from it, they could be much better players. "He just made a bad move on the court, and here is why." They needed to have switched into sort of a coaching mode for the season, looking at the tendencies, strengths and weaknesses of each player, and thinking how their games could be made better - and then translating what they learned to themselves. My point is that though it may not have been how they would have preferred to spend their time, it could have been time well spent IF they used it properly.