Sunday, April 23, 2017

Evaluating this next season

For unbiased observers, evaluating the job Wes Flanigan will have done after this next season will be tricky, because of all the new faces. If it is glaringly evident that there is no talent there at all, then it is easy. Wes didn't get it done.

However, good talent is not always obviously good right off the bat. Take Deondre Burns for example. For a season and a half he was an also-ran; then he caught fire and ended up as one of our best shooters, all of a sudden. I absolutely would not have predicted that at the first of the year. The same could be true of some of the large group of "new hires" for next year. We may not set the house a-fire early in the season, but if in the second half the new faces are starting to show that they are getting the idea, then there would be reason for optimism.

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