re: Blakeney, Sampson, Mays and Sims

What's sad about that is the way he totally mishandled the point guard situation during the M&M days. Hickey was here already. He had the top assist to turnover ratio in the sec 2 years running and was 1 or 2 in the nation in steals. He was also a big game player who always elevated his play vs the better teams and was our leader. So Jones decides to push him out because he has this super quick stat stuffer on deck named Josh Gray. Ppl can say what they want but Gray was very talented (he's a d leaguer). Nobody could stay in front of that kid and if hedve been coached could've averaged 8 assist per game. Instead Jones big idea was to insert Tim Quarterman at the point. A true wing player who was a shoot first guy and couldn't blow by anybody or cover any above avg point guards either. Grays record starting at point was something like 18-7 while TQs was around 18-16. (Not exact numbers but they Arnt off but more than a couple games). So take away the non structure on offense, take away the horribly coached D and FT shooting take away the poor situational basketball and that group still had enough talent to play yard ball and do something. But Jones would rather be hard headed and play favorites than win games. Yea some ppl say he's classy and a good guy but coaches who do that sort of thing seldom are and what's even more important, he sucks at his job.