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I find it amazing that the one position that BYU has routinely struggled finding quality players is suddenly looking to be a strength for BYU for a number of year, going back to Jimmermania of course. Remember when the prospects of Michael Vranes got BYU fans moist?
I have always thought that in addition to the athletic skills not being all too prevalent in the BYU recruiting base, the paucity of high end hoop talent in Utah, location many BYU players come from, hurt BYU wrt PGs. I believe that good PGs have to play, at least in summer ball, with a glut of other good players in order to learn how to get others involved and generally the good PGs coming out of Utah are generally scoring PGs because they were usually the only real good player on their squad. While BYU has had, and currently has, very competent scoring PGs they are also very capable to getting others involved when defenses look to take away the PG chances to score. It will be interesting to watch Matty C. in this regard vis a vis Jimmer. I happen to believe that Matty is a bit more of a true PG than Jimmer, but I think that is because Matty played with better players growing up and I also believe he will have a better supporting cast at BYU than Jimmer had. I also don't think Matty will develop into being as good a scorer as Jimmer but that is mostly just because statisitically very, very few will score as well as Jimmer.
Of course it will be a real hoot if Nick Emery is able to continue this trend. But holy shit people, this is looking like 7 straight years of good PG play at BYU. Am I the only one utterly amazed by this? Honestly we have gone long stretches of Matt Montague, Kevin Woodberry and Terry Nashif and now we have this stretch where we act as if we are serious hoop fans who understand good PG play. This is pretty damn bitchin!
I have always thought that in addition to the athletic skills not being all too prevalent in the BYU recruiting base, the paucity of high end hoop talent in Utah, location many BYU players come from, hurt BYU wrt PGs. I believe that good PGs have to play, at least in summer ball, with a glut of other good players in order to learn how to get others involved and generally the good PGs coming out of Utah are generally scoring PGs because they were usually the only real good player on their squad. While BYU has had, and currently has, very competent scoring PGs they are also very capable to getting others involved when defenses look to take away the PG chances to score. It will be interesting to watch Matty C. in this regard vis a vis Jimmer. I happen to believe that Matty is a bit more of a true PG than Jimmer, but I think that is because Matty played with better players growing up and I also believe he will have a better supporting cast at BYU than Jimmer had. I also don't think Matty will develop into being as good a scorer as Jimmer but that is mostly just because statisitically very, very few will score as well as Jimmer.
Of course it will be a real hoot if Nick Emery is able to continue this trend. But holy shit people, this is looking like 7 straight years of good PG play at BYU. Am I the only one utterly amazed by this? Honestly we have gone long stretches of Matt Montague, Kevin Woodberry and Terry Nashif and now we have this stretch where we act as if we are serious hoop fans who understand good PG play. This is pretty damn bitchin!
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