JP on Marching to Madness Podcast

[OneIndian]

Aug 5, 2017 17:47:42 GMT -5 knicksaint said:

The entire Khalil Richard story has me shaking my head. When Khalil signed in November, 2015, Siena had Marquis Wright entering his junior year and Kenny Wormley as a freshman and Kadeem Smithen redshirrting after one season at GWU, where he was recruited as a PG. All of them played PG through high school. The two year difference in seniority followed the PG separation which Jimmy had used while at Loyola. Recruiting another PG a year behind Wormley and Smithen made no sense unless Jimmy was clairvoyant and knew, before Wormley or Smithen played a single game, that Wormley would leave after one productive season and Smithen's first year as an A10 transfer would be pretty underwhelming. Therefore, it really does not make sense that Jimmy would have been recruiting a PG in last year's freshman class, and if Jimmy told Khalil that he was recruiting him to be a PG, then Jimmy is a bad recruiter for recruiting a position he did not need to recruit in that class.

I would also suggest that if it was Jimmy's intent to recruit a PG in that class, he was either hopelessly naive or extremely misguided in his choice.Khalil had two classmates at St. Francis who were recruited to play PG at the mid-major level, Kurk Lewis (Drexel) and Daquan Bracey (Louisiana Tech). Each played at least 28 minutes per game and averaged at least 5.0 assists as a college freshman. With these two playing with Khalil, who is bigger than both, it is inconceivable that Khalil was primarily a PG at St. Francis. Therefore, if as PPC claims, Jimmy recruited Khalil as a PG, it was more of a hope he would be successful in moving to that position in college (read Khalil's quotes in the Baltimore Sun about his need to transition to PG) than a decision based on what he had achieved in high school. It may well be that Khalil wanted to play the point with his buddy Nico, whom Khalil presumably felt he could not beat out at the 2G, and that Jimmy was trying to facilitate that possibility, but why do you compare an alleged PG recruit to Vinnie "Microwave Johnson as Jimmy did frequently?

I don't see Khalil as having been recruited over because I don't see the objective facts supporting his having been recruited to play the point as opposed to being an "instant offense" guy coming off the bench. But if Jimmy did recruit him as a PG, then this was another in an increasingly long list of recruiting mistakes, joining the likes of Maurice White, Michael Wolfe, Cam Gottfried and Jimmy Paige.

I have no doubt that this is just another in a long line of Patsos screw ups recruiting. Guy has no plan when recruiting and doesn't recruit to a system.

[playerparentcoach]

Thats too much to read. The case on Khalil is closed. He will have to earn time at the 2 because Patsos will not give him any mins at the 1. He is using 2 freshmen and possibly Khadeem there. Richard came to Siena to play the point. I know this for a fact. I dont see him playing much as an undersized 2g. I guess time will tell.

Also Khalil was on varsity as a freshmen while Lee and Bracey were on JV. Khalil was the backup pg. He actually transfered senior year to play the point but got injured and missed the season. Those 3 shared the pg duties when they played together. That happens alot in bmore. Then they all look for their own college team that will put the ball in their hands