Slightly side topic here but this is best place for it IMO.
My take on the small PGs / guards is twofold:
1. that the sub-six-foot guards who excelled at UR could all already play the day they set foot on UR's campus. I don't think we developed anyone into a starter. Credit due for finding the undersized guys - KA, Kendall, Gilyard (and SDJ to a slightly lesser degree) who could play and getting transfers like Francis and King and Hunt to commit. But does anyone think anyone of those guys showed up as a project and Moonteam made them great? No way, those guys were all straight players out of HS. Francis and King arrived as gunners and were actually very unlike a Moonguard. Argabright showed up and from game 1 you saw him exploiting seams, drawing fouls and pressuring the defense at every opportunity, a breath of fresh air. The guys not as good? They end up as Moonball players - rote passers who run the offense. They are not exploiting the defense. Tyne himself reflected on how as a freshman he couldn't execute the offense and just called the first play he thought of.
2. I believe that recruiting guards of the same archetype (small) actually has more downside than up since - like Tyne - a small guard being just okay on offense is an overall liability on the court because of his size and ability to be exploited on defense. All the undersized guys have to actually be much better than average on offense or be a defensive savants like Gilly (or both) to counteract the defensive issue. The guys listed above are three of the best scorers/players in UR history and AA has a chance to be extremely good. But because several sub 6' guards have had big success in 19 years, the mandate seems to be grab as many as possible. But the busts lead to terrible results. Nelson, B. Artis, Tyne - all losing seasons as starters. Even Kendall, as good as he was, won between 16 and 21 games, never more than that. Shawn'dre topped out at 22 playing alongside the A10 POY. And playing them at both guard spots has worked to bubble consideration exactly 1 year (24-7). And I for one do believe that teams shoot really well from 3 against UR because they have clean sightlines over two small guards and are rarely worried about close outs.
Anyway, we seem to still be stuck on it, so I fully expect a 5'11" SG type to be added via the portal. But maybe the coaches who recruit should try harder to think outside the underrecruited because of size mold.
