Dave Sez

Hodge Stay At Point Guard?

Mike DeCourcy says that Julius Hodge should stay at point guard for NC State. That's funny. Hodge has never really been State's point guard. Oh sure, he handles the ball a lot and even brings it up the court a lot, but he's not a point guard. Those duties were shared largely by Hodge, Scooter Sherrill and Ilian Evtimov last year. Sherrill brought the ball up a lot and Evtimov ran a lot of the Princeton-like offense.

Hodge is and has always been a wing player with pretty good ball-handling skills. He isn't a point guard. There's a difference.

Another interesting tidbit from DeCourcy's article is the nugget that Matt Doherty did some coaching at the ABCD camp this summer. He coached a center named Andray Blatche. According to Doherty, Blatche was "easily frustrated" by the competition. Hmmm, a Doherty-coached player who was frustrated. That sounds oddly familiar, doesn't it?