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Time to cut Dylan Addae-Wusu some slack.

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I posted my usual top 20 points on the Trove after the game. But there is one point I want to post on the free board.


1. The Carrington Experiment

We are all guilty and that includes me. I stated in the preseason after watching a practice and a second partial workout that Dylan Addae-Wusu had to start. He was playing that well. But as we have seen in the 4 games to date DAW is not a PG. Sha knows that. The fans know that and so does the media. But knowing that DAW should be starting, where do you play him?

Dylan is a swing but Jenkins and Coleman man those positions. And with Harmon and Dual adding little that leaves DAW at the point. An issue former SHU coach Kevin Willard faced (unsuccessfully) with Khadeen Carrington years ago. Playing the point, running the team, controlling tempo is something that takes years of experience. It does not happen overnight. We have not been fair to Dylan, and with that said he's under a ton of pressure. Most not of his doing.

Time to ease up.
 
I posted my usual top 20 points on the Trove after the game. But there is one point I want to post on the free board.


1. The Carrington Experiment

We are all guilty and that includes me. I stated in the preseason after watching a practice and a second partial workout that Dylan Addae-Wusu had to start. He was playing that well. But as we have seen in the 4 games to date DAW is not a PG. Sha knows that. The fans know that and so does the media. But knowing that DAW should be starting, where do you play him?

Dylan is a swing but Jenkins and Coleman man those positions. And with Harmon and Dual adding little that leaves DAW at the point. An issue former SHU coach Kevin Willard faced (unsuccessfully) with Khadeen Carrington years ago. Playing the point, running the team, controlling tempo is something that takes years of experience. It does not happen overnight. We have not been fair to Dylan, and with the said he's under a ton of pressure. Most not of his doing.

Time to ease up.

Nope. Disagree.

“Dylan is a swing but Jenkins and Coleman man those positions.”

What you meant to say is Jenkins and Coleman are better players and DAW should be on the bench.

As I’ve said before, DAW has no position on offense. He can’t shoot consistently, can’t pass, can’t create for himself. He can only barrel to the hoop praying for a foul or contested layup or shoot wide open 3’s. (Same as most players today)

He’s been in college for 5 years, playing basketball for over 15 years. I’m not cutting him any slack. Watching our so called highly ranked and/or veteran players struggle mightily against weak competition is/was pathetic.
 
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I posted my usual top 20 points on the Trove after the game. But there is one point I want to post on the free board.


1. The Carrington Experiment

We are all guilty and that includes me. I stated in the preseason after watching a practice and a second partial workout that Dylan Addae-Wusu had to start. He was playing that well. But as we have seen in the 4 games to date DAW is not a PG. Sha knows that. The fans know that and so does the media. But knowing that DAW should be starting, where do you play him?

Dylan is a swing but Jenkins and Coleman man those positions. And with Harmon and Dual adding little that leaves DAW at the point. An issue former SHU coach Kevin Willard faced (unsuccessfully) with Khadeen Carrington years ago. Playing the point, running the team, controlling tempo is something that takes years of experience. It does not happen overnight. We have not been fair to Dylan, and with the said he's under a ton of pressure. Most not of his doing.

Time to ease up.
Agree. He's never been a PG and he isn’t anywhere close to being solely to blame for the offensive issues thus far.
 
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Always plays hard will always give you points , rebounding , assists and steals in every game . The problem is he is not a point guard.
#NeverForget when DAW when 0/13 from the field with 0 points while being a main ball handler with Kadary out last season against Providence at home.

A 4 point loss that was the differential of dancing vs NIT
 
#NeverForget when DAW when 0/13 from the field with 0 points while being a main ball handler with Kadary out last season against Providence at home.

A 4 point loss that was the differential of dancing vs NIT
Hey it’s not his fault. He has to dribble the ball more now. Give him a few more years to understand how to throw a bounce pass to a moving target..
 
Add it to the pile that results from a poor start.

We had a poster literally start a thread on Richmond supposedly causing chemistry problems when his two replacements here are already AWOL. You can’t make it up.

When Sha rights the ship with this group some normalcy will return.
 
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Tough situation. Bad for everyone having him play PG. Hopefully he can improve as the season goes along.
 
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Everyone knows Wusu isn't a PG. He's a role player who was going to be an important, veteran leader for us. Problem is the team is in bad shape as it's 2 Point Guards have been unplayable (for a variety of reasons). As a result Sha is asking Wusu to pick up the slack at a position he clearly isn't suited to.

Most of the players have been playing tentative and without confidence - Wusu especially. Sha has his work cut out for him.
 
I know that I'm going to catch a load of crap for this but here goes--- you really cannot put all the blame on Wusu when it should go directly on SHA . His team, his players, his staff, his game plan--the gears are not meshing and it falls on player evaluation. NOT the end all excuse of NIL.
This time last year, this Board was calling for the benching of Dawes.

If you did not see the team figuring things out last game, you are not watching.
 
The two offensive boards against Hofstra off of Toumi’s 0-4 stint late in the game go overlooked because Dylan then missed his own two free throws, losing us the game. Can’t make it up!

He’s a serviceable player playing out of position. I’m not even sure what his position really is but it’s certainly not point guard.
 
Always plays hard will always give you points , rebounding , assists and steals in every game . The problem is he is not a point guard.
He's a tough, skilled player. Glue guy who scored 25 vs. Johnnie's when we roasted them last year. Also had a good NIT. Once we get Dual healthy offense should flow better and all players will look better on offense.

Happy he stayed and let's support someone who is part of our program and who plays 100% all of the time.
 
He's a tough, skilled player. Glue guy who scored 25 vs. Johnnie's when we roasted them last year. Also had a good NIT. Once we get Dual healthy offense should flow better and all players will look better on offense.

Happy he stayed and let's support someone who is part of our program and who plays 100% all of the time.
Also played well in the Big East tournament game last year when they hammered us. He wasn’t the reason.
 
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I posted my usual top 20 points on the Trove after the game. But there is one point I want to post on the free board.


1. The Carrington Experiment

We are all guilty and that includes me. I stated in the preseason after watching a practice and a second partial workout that Dylan Addae-Wusu had to start. He was playing that well. But as we have seen in the 4 games to date DAW is not a PG. Sha knows that. The fans know that and so does the media. But knowing that DAW should be starting, where do you play him?

Dylan is a swing but Jenkins and Coleman man those positions. And with Harmon and Dual adding little that leaves DAW at the point. An issue former SHU coach Kevin Willard faced (unsuccessfully) with Khadeen Carrington years ago. Playing the point, running the team, controlling tempo is something that takes years of experience. It does not happen overnight. We have not been fair to Dylan, and with the said he's under a ton of pressure. Most not of his doing.

Time to ease up.
Willard had an issue w an inability to recruit point guards and turn his shooting guards into point guards, which was frustrating not being able to let his 2s play their natural positions. Happened with quincy as well. You gotta roll w jenkins, daw, coleman. Frustrating how highly ranked zion and dual were and getting zero production.
 
DAW obviously has his flaws, but if you like raising an NIT banner than you should be giving him a ton of slack. He was the only guy that actually showed up with energy and effort in that first NIT game last year and basically willed us into waking up towards the end of that game. Without him we don’t win the NIT last year.

Give Sha some time to work his magic.
 
There isn't anyone who would be critical of his hustle and effort. He is undersized to play forward, doesn't shoot well enough to be the shooting guard, and does not handle the ball well enough to be the point guard. That being said he is on the roster and can play a role. It is up to Sha to make the best use of him so he can contribute until someone else forces Sha to move him to the bench where he can be the 6th man etc..
 
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Look up Posh's stats from Dayton and get back to me. Has scored 9 points total in 3 games. He only started 1 game and got moved to the bench. Dayton fans are trashing him online wondering what his purpose on the team is.
It’s hard for posh right now. His head may be in Ohio, but his hearts in South Orange
 
It’s hard for posh right now. His head may be in Ohio, but his hearts in South Orange
Maybe he wants to be the first to apply for an in-season transfer. The NCAA loses every other case against the players. Maybe we can get him on the roster by the new year. 😂
 
Poah is a career 11 12ppg, 4-5 assists and 2 steals. Something must be wrong. Idk why we didnt land him.
 
It’s hard for posh right now. His head may be in Ohio, but his hearts in South Orange
Too funny!!!!

Now when players aren’t playing well it’s that they are in a bad situation and would do better here.

But when players flourish in other systems, we should never have let them go.

You can’t write a better novel.

Always what we don’t have. Always these guys would be stars here and better than what we have
 
I think the Wusu situation is because Shaheen needs a veteran to bridge the gap to Dual. But Dual isn’t even remotely there yet.

I believe Sha knows Wusu isn’t the season answer
 
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DAW obviously has his flaws, but if you like raising an NIT banner than you should be giving him a ton of slack. He was the only guy that actually showed up with energy and effort in that first NIT game last year and basically willed us into waking up towards the end of that game. Without him we don’t win the NIT last year.

Give Sha some time to work his magic.
we wouldn't raise the NIT banner because we would have been in the NCAA tournament....
 
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There isn't anyone who would be critical of his hustle and effort. He is undersized to play forward, doesn't shoot well enough to be the shooting guard, and does not handle the ball well enough to be the point guard. That being said he is on the roster and can play a role. It is up to Sha to make the best use of him so he can contribute until someone else forces Sha to move him to the bench where he can be the 6th man etc..
And yet, Dylan is asked to be all of the things you describe.

Why? Because he has the ability to do so. He's not tremendous at any one thing but he's versatile and effective at many. It's a valuable piece to have a player fill multiple roles depending on the need and situation.
 
This is on Sha. Dylan gives everything he's got on the court every play. He's not a PG.

Why do we always have such issues with the PG position? This has been going on for years at SHU. I long for the days when we had Sha, Barrett, Hurley, Greene and real PGs running the show at SHU. Amazing with Willard and Sha former PGs that we struggle so much at this position.
 
One of these years we're going to get a legitimate, true PG & the offense will look so much more efficient.
 
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