I Love Walt

[tornado]

I'll provide the snicker of the day...just a couple months ago someone compared Walt to TCS and said he was worried because Walt reminded him of TCS...

[real fan]

There are a lot of things we can criticize Jim Les for, and plenty of people have, but he knew the importance of having quality point guard play in his system, and he always had good point guards.
So blame him for whatever you want, but as I've already said, when he left this team had an All-MVC point guard, along with another All-MVC player in TB and a number of other fine players who are the top players on this year's team. He also recruited one of the top 5 point guards in the state of Illinois for 2011, and another player in RA capable of playing the point (and I'll trust his opinion on that ahead of yours if you don't mind).

But anyone who wants to continue to try to distort this and make JL the problem, go ahead.

I hoped Jim Les was going to do well and yes he had a lot of good point guards in his system, I do think he was not treated fairly and should have gotten 1 more year.
His biggest mistakes were in his recruiting in that he went out and got what he thought were the best players available and did not recruit to team depth as when we lost certain players we had no clear backups at that position, why Jake had to guard 4 position players last season because of 0 depth at that position, also why Salley was stuck playing center and Egolf too because we had no true post player until Prosser came aboard, way too many players were having to play positions that they were not capable of which was why we ended up with mediocre seasons . I thought because of the injuries and his contract he would get a final chance this season but he didn"t so I have moved on.

[tornado]

Geno's very first move was to being securing depth at the point guard spot...
funny how misinformed some are...but I think Geno knows a thing or two about point guards
-- he mighta even played the position once or twice...

When the pool of available players was thin in the spring - he still tried to get a PG
and for the Class of 2012 - securing a PG was his 1st priority...
BUT most people know that the first guy he offered and was going to get - suddenly became unavailable - so he went right out and secured another commitment from Ka'Darryl Bell....

Walt is being forced to play an unfamiliar spot and is doing the best he can given the circumstances...and the current situation is secondary to fallout not to Geno's choosing.

[BradleyJD]

I think Geno knows a thing or two about point guards

Agreed. I don't think we can question his decision to have Walt there at all.