Right. He and Morant can go "develop" together, since he's having such success at FGCU.
Let's look closer. He played against two garbage teams and they are in a garbage league.
Against Portland State he was 6-17 from the floor, 0-4 from three, 2 assists, 4 turnovers. We get that line from somebody against a GOOD team and we want the player beheaded. Where he's at, it's good enough to be player of the week.
Then they play some no name school called Bethesda and he goes 7-16 from the floor.
So I'm sure he's happy he's getting as many shots as he wants. Not making a lot, but he's being allowed to take them to his heart's content. No wonder he is happy with the way things are going. And his shots probably won't change much, they continue to play bad to really bad teams.
He's not a bad player, not by any stretch. Once Rashad went down last year, UNLV could have definitely used him. When Rashad was healthy, he wanted more PT, because, of course, he was better than Rashad. But he had a place, he was good enough - was huge in the at Arizona game and proved he could play at this level - but his place wasn't high enough in the pecking order and it really aggravated him.
On this year's team, he's buried somewhere between 8-13, probably on the deep end. Poyser hasn't played a ton yet but seems to be ALOT better than Smith overall.
I think he will put up really good numbers in his league. He's at the right level. Some guys aim too high with recruiting and then they cannot accept that they aren't as good as they thought when they get buried in the rotations. Until he left, and even now, he's not as good as he thinks. Again, not bad, but you ain't displacing a healthy Vaughn. Or any number of players. He's a mid-major contributor, a low-major all conference guy.
He's one guy - from the moment he stepped on campus until the time he left - that I could never get into as a player. From his body language to his actions and inactions, to his attitude and work ethic.... Just a major turnoff as a player.
