We need balance. Pledger is fine, he'd be a GREAT OU player on other OU teams, but he can't create his own shots. You stick him on the floor with Grooms, a guy that scares nobody offensively, and Cam, who in his current state is a below average player, and they simply key on Pledger, and we can't do anything about it.
I like Grooms. He is certainly better than Blair. That said, you cannot win again the good teams with pg's like Grooms, unless you are stacked everywhere else. We currently are not stacked.
And guard depth in general kills us. We don't have a single true guard on the bench. Not one. I'm guessing there may not be another team in the country that is in that position. Think about that.....how many D1 schools don't have a single 2/3 on the bench? We make do with a backup pg (Blair), and a guy that really doesn't have a position, but would be best as a small 4 (Neal).
I'm probably guilty of getting ahead of myself with this team, but it LOOKED like they were going to play the old Kelvin style that allowed less talented teams to overachieve. They probably aren't to that point yet. You can see the effort. You can see the coaching. But the toughness, the intensity 100% of the time, and the overall talent, just isn't there yet.
