Originally Posted by
mapei
>The guy I'm intrigued with is Macklin. He seemed terribly shy, deferential when on the court last year. He might well have the temperment to play the pivotal role in the Princeton. Whether he has the skills and poise is another matter. If he does, Georgetown is going to make a real run.
Me too. At first I thought Macklin was the logical choice to take the starting spot vacated by Jeff. That way Summers could keep playing the 3, PE2 could keep coming off the bench, etc. But the conventional wisdom seems to be that Macklin's role will be to sub for Roy. Last year, sometimes Jeff would sub for Roy, and PE2 would sub for Jeff when Roy went out. At other times, Macklin would sub for Roy.
At any rate, I wouldn't get too bogged down in thinking that someone always needs to play the high post in JT3's system. True, they have done it a lot but not exclusively. With Jeff gone, he may need to adjust to the strengths and weaknesses of his personnel. And it might make sense - not saying that it necessarily will happen - to run a more guard-oriented offense next year because they are absolutely loaded with talent there: Wallace, Sapp, Crawford, Rivers, Freeman, Wright. I mean, wow. In a way, you can say that Georgetown's strengths (Hibbert and 4 guys who can play point guard well) are exactly Duke's weaknesses (no proven 5 and only one proven 1).
Not to mention Summers, who has oodles of talent but is still growing in consistency, the sometimes electrifying PE2, and the big-upside Macklin. All these guys may not fit the classic Princeton as well as last year's team did, but figuring out how to use them all successfully is a nice problem for JT3 to have.