re: Darcy Malone experiment

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Now, why go to the trouble to recruit a 7-footer who is regarded as a good prospect, meaning ER3, and let him waste away on the bench.

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I'm curious as to why he started the first three games and is scarcely seen the court since.

I get that he's raw and not ready. From what I saw his movement is his biggest liability. He moves very slowly and stiffly and he was absolutely getting exposed in pick and rolls, among other things limited movement exposes.

But didn't they see these things early? Yet they chose him early to try to develop (I guess) and left our other two bigs who have a year in the program on the bench. Odo was tried a few games, now Malone. Interesting.

And it's reported he's been sick. I do know there was an OOC game early in the year when we finally pulled away late and Johnny told him to go in and he refused. Johnny had about a minute long conversation with him on the bench then and he finally got up and went in, but his (Elbert's)body language was still telling.

May have something to do with it.