It doesn't make you a bad person but it makes you (and MiR) sound like people who didn't watch any games last year.
I'm assuming you're bent over the "he'll never be Jake" comment? I'm real comfortable with that.
This team is Angel's when the game is on the line, like it was last year down the stretch. Or at least it should be.
Of course "he'll never be Jake" - no two players are identical. But if anything the team will rely on Angel MORE in situations where we need to create offense than we did on Jake in 08-09. Who is Angel's Denis?
First of all you're being hyper-defensive about Angel. I'm not minimizing his importance. I listed all of the things we need him to be and then said he doesn't need to worry about being rah-rah. If you couldn't tell by the responsibilities I listed for him I think he is the most important player on the team. Now that being said...
It was his team last year by default, we had no other guard that had the capability of taking over anything, see the other thread that is now about Will. If Frank had the choice I don't think he would have preferred for Angel to be out there like that in situations like the Baylor & KU games. We were better for it late in the season and this and each successive season. It wasn't his team in the abstract term that is being bantered about in this thread, pretty much a rehash of the last leadership thread, but it was his team in the fact that the ball was in his hands when it mattered.
As far as the 08-09 comparison, there isn't a perfect one because unless there is another guard has a hell of an unexpected breakout. Angel is going to have to be a little of both Jake and Denis.
