As I stated somewhere recently, a Moon specialty is having quality players or all-A10 caliber players and not filling the roster around them properly. Glaring weaknesses in spots, weak benches, etc. Wasn't Joe Kirby in the bench rotation for TJ and Shawn'dre's final season. No slight to him, but he was a walk on, where if there was a strong bench, that was probably an NCAA team. The gap between TJ and Shawn'dre and the freshmen that year (Buckingham, Sherod) had what, only Fore in it? The portal should be able to provide immediate patches, but the system...
And as stated here and many other times, an inability to string together quality recruiting classes year after year, with upper level players in them nonstop, is a big issue, particularly after NCAAs/2+ years of success. It's almost like the staff is trying to recruit role players who will never threaten starters' minutes. But then when the big class or star(s) graduate(s), you're left with a bunch of role players and maybe 1 or 2 top level A10 type players, the Burton senior year being the most recent example.
We have had offensive success with short guards, but I think at this point is has to be said that we are generally poor defending the 3 as a result of those same small guards, especially when we go 5'9", 6', 6'3" in the guard/wing positions. We are not altering shots, affecting sight lines, and generally making things tough on shooters. And the switching onto bigs is obvs a 20 year problem.
I'll also say that for whatever reason, especially the last decade, Moon only recruits white guy centers, even for the project guys or the backups like Friendshuh, big Luke, who were total non-factors. Seeing Hunger as a backup on GW, reminded me that we recruited him and failed to land him, so even our misses are the same archetype. It's a second example of the staff being indoctrinated in the Moon rut of what a position is, they cannot envision it another way or recruit outside of that archetype.
