I'm not sure how Reeves fits but he's a baller for sure. He would immediately be one of our two or three most talented players regardless of position. Can shoot the rock, too. I wouldn't complain if we got him.
I think people really, really oversell the "we desperately need a pure PG" thing because of last year, and I think the PG thing is to some degree an excuse for the lack of chemistry that was really the issue last year. We definitely need someone to handle the ball and get us into sets but that's something a Shannon or Reeves can do just fine, even if they don't rack up big assist numbers. Also in theory, if Williams is healthy, he's exactly the guy we're talking about - gets some good assists numbers, 2-1 A/TO, guards his ass off. It seems like half of our fans are like "we don't need a guy to score a bunch at the 1" and the other half are like "but Williams sucks, he can't score!" The biggest thing, obviously, is can he get healthy.
The bigger thing IMO is buy in from all the guys on the roster, playing for their teammates, etc. I expect Shannon and Hawkins to set the tone on that - those guys seem all in on our program - which they obviously struggled / failed to do last year. I hope our new guys have different mindsets than Skyy and Mayer did.
It's funny but a year ago we thought we were absolutely set at PG. We weren't.
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