I still disagree, because Yogi Ferrell isn't all that... and still say that not having a replacement is a bigger and only issue. Consider lsoing Blackmon vs losing Bryant. Replacing Blackmon's role with five other guys who can shoot... pffft no effect. Replacing Bryant with no one, would have killed us.One of the travesties of the end of the season was that we completely stopped cutting Troy on the baseline. That play was his best contribution to the team, and it just disappeared. And, yes, combined with Troy also running point so much late (that wasn't happening nearly as much during the B1G season), it's pretty easy to see that's a coaching problem.
I said this after senior night, and I still think it, after looking at Crean's smug face, and realizing he saved his job, his ego was back full-force, and he was going to screw things up and overthink us right out of the postseason. One of the reasons we won the B1G was he realized he wasn't a genius. But, paradoxically, winning the B1G was exactly what he needed to be convinced again that he was, in fact, a genius.
I wasn't joking with my original response to you. Yogi's value will be most apparent when our Yogiless team next year is Creaned right into a .500 record and the NIT bubble.
We're replacing yogi with no one. We can replace Yogi's scoring easily. We have a better defender. What we don't have is a ballhandler - who can facilitate. A PG. So yea, we'll suffer. If we had a decent backup PG on roster (we don't) it wouldn't be an issue at all.