Agree, good luck to him. He has potential but he can't get himself to play under control. I used a saying from a former great NBA announcer when he made bad plays "the mustard is off the hot dog", which sums up how I feel about Curbelo. Out of control, couldn't be trusted, bad execution.. I didn't like his attitude, "I'm going to be me". What if "being me" leads to bad results? That can lead to less probability to winning. Why didn't he get off the bench in the 2nd half of the Houston game? I don't believe Underwood is a great coach but he saw/read the writing on the wall. If he couldn't/wouldn't play under control then it's best for Illinois basketball that he transfers out.
LOL. I will have to remember that mustard/hot dog saying. He was not helping by any objective measure.
Somehow or other Curbelo ended up being subtractive with this unit when he started playing more regularly. We finished 6-5 and our offensive performance especially to a man suffered after XMAS.
It just didn't work as well. I was at the Iowa game at Iowa and the player off ball movement, the ball movement itself, and making the extra pass was all starting to become more consistent. We had four guys on the floor who could all score and we seemed to trust each other and look for each other more. We were hitting a lot of 3's, but we were getting good looks.
We became very stagnant the second half and Curbelo took a lot of shots for somebody who couldn't shoot, and had a high TO ratio.
I know he was recovering, but once it became clear he was not ready physically or emotionally - he maybe should have just sat. RJ and Goode could have played more instead and we could have gotten Hawkins on track earlier maybe.
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