. Ellison showed potential but let’s not kid ourselves, he was a lot of work away from being a legit BE starter or even rotation player. It is disappointing that he left because we’ve turned guys like into quality role players.
He was already a rotation player, he averaged 25 minutes a game last year. And as opposed to who's getting his minutes this year he's Bill Russell.
Question: in the off season when the walk on Holifield transferred you started an entire thread devoted to how much his loss was going to hurt to the program. Speaking of not kidding ourselves, can you explain why his loss was a detriment and Ellison's wasn't because he was a lot of work away from being even a rotation player?
Thanks in advance.
I didn’t say that Holifield was a loss and that Ellison wasn’t. I didn’t want either of them to leave. In regards to Ellison specifically, his departure was frustrating because we suffered through him learning the game and Pitt will probably reap the rewards. But like I said, he has a lot of work to do. Holifield wasn’t going to get serious minutes here unless our roster was decimated with injuries. But there have been games where we could have used him for 5-8 minutes to give Ponds or Simon a blow. I say this because we’ve played really well the last two games and in the last 5 minutes we’ve been unable to execute. I think it’s fair to assume that we were out of gas.
And to be perfectly clear, I never think it’s a good sign for a college basketball program when 6 players leave in one year, Or was it 7? I think I’ve lost count. Not a very good example of a staff that has control over their program.
They are both guys we could use now. Don’t you agree? Before you answer let me remind you that Amar Alibegovic is our second best ball handler off the bench.