Originally posted by Ed B
Supposedly the reason DerMarr Johnson has been such a bust with the Hawks is that he couldn't read the playbook when they gave it to him, honest to god, all he did at Cincy was just run around on the court and play street ball.
Yep Dermarr is notoriously slow to pick things up.
I'm not a big Huggins fan I think he's an excellent coach but I think he's essentially a pimp for players who for the most part have no business being in college. Not that any other school doesn't accept athletes that wouldn't get in as students, even Stanford does, but the guys at Cincy are there to do 2 things, lift weights, and play ball.
Dontonio Wingfield played one year there, he reported withdrew from school with a few weeks left in the season sparking rumors he was going pro. One teacher was quoted as saying "he didn't withdraw from school at all, he never showed up in the first place I haven't seen the kid all year."
Again the guy can coach but his teams seem to come up short every year and I have to think it's a function of the type of kids he recruits. They are all hungry players who play all out all year, during the season other teams take nights off, CIncy doesn't. but when the tourney starts everyone plays hard and suddenly Cincy isn't as good as they looked before.
Hell Lavin beat them last year!.
