I promise you Pack will be on the bench next year with Perkins/Bethea being the 1 and 2. There’s no reason Pack should be starting here ever again with his performance when healthy last year.
Man I don’t need the whole roster to take shape to know that 5’11 Pack, 6’3 Perkins, and 6’5 180 Bethea could be a defensive liability. If that’s what we’re doing just shut the forum down until the season starts.
Pack isn't coming back not to start
How big do you think the typical college guard is? Keep in mind, Miami has won big with guards smaller than what you just listed. If you have a 6'3'' guard, a 6'5'' and the smallest is 5'11, you are doing okay, especially if you have a guy like Wooga come back. Honestly, if you need stops, you are going to have Perkins and Bethea as your backcourt, and that's not a terrible defensive backcourt, size wise.
I’m talking about those 3 playing together. I don’t know who really thinks Pack is coming off the bench but that isn’t happening. If Perkins comes, he’s starting too.
Seriously.
Where’s he going in the P5 that he is??
It's likely that both will play starter's level minutes, but L will have certain matchups for each. It's similar to last year, when Pack and Bens split minutes(Wong was always out there late as the 2 guard), and L went more to Bens late in games, when he needed defensive stops. People forget that Bens played a ton of high pressure minutes on the Elite 8 and Final Four runs.
Plenty of places. He's a double digit scorer the past two years in the ACC.
Ton of places. Pack is a guy that could easily start at a mediocre P5, he would be a star in a lot of places merely because he can shoot from anywhere.
He played high pressure minutes but he played 10 and 16mpg in those two tourney runs.
Apparently he wanted too much or wasn’t interested in us…
No he’s not lmao! Have you actually watched him play? Have you seen his size and how that comes into play the games his team loses? He needs time he will be very good but he’s not ready
He’s not the starting 2 unless he gains a lot of strength! He’s lean really lean and when he gets pushed around is a no factor in the game. They lost there state semi cause that team got physical they gave him the lane all night and he sat on the outside being a none factor he’s not a killer shooter he relies on his athleticism and 9 out of 10 he’s the most athletic
No one is asking him to be a finished product on day one. People forget that guys like Wong and others were thin coming in, got minutes anyway, and they weren't nearly as developed offensively. This is a guy that can score at all three levels, I expect him to do most of his damage in the midrange and from deep, until he gains confidence hitting the lane. Keep in mind, with the proliferation of one and done, it's not like he is going to spend most of the season playing against grown men with NBA talent. A lot of the dudes that are stronger(due to age), will not be as athletic. The athletic, strong guys are usually long gone from college. It's the Zach Edey concept: If they were legit NBA players, they likely wouldn't be playing in college as upperclassmen.
lmao at saying that a top 10 recruit isn’t ‘ready’ to start for a team that just had a losing record.