(04-23-2020, 10:10 AM)Papa John Wrote: In winflop's defense, he was probably referring to his own opinion--not Muir's--given the expectations for MBB even without Terry. Having said that, even if next season ends up like the most recent, i.e. NIT-bound, I would vote to give Haase a chance to develop the younger players who stay in school beyond 2020-21 and see if he can continue his recruiting success.
This past season was the first in which Stanford has had a talented, true point guard since 2003-2004 when Chris Hernandez was here. (In Trent Johnson's infinite wisdom, he moved him to shooting guard for Chris' last two years, but that's another story.) The point (pun intended) is that, no matter how good of a coach you are, unless you have obscene talent at the other four positions, you're not going to have much success with a middling point guard. Hopefully Terry will return. Regardless, I think we can assume Isa Silva will be around for at least one season beginning in 2021-2022. And the way Haase is now recruiting, he'll (hopefully) continue to bring in talented point guards.