Come on Stevie. How do you have one assist and seven turnovers? How do you miss all seven of your field goals and one free throw while missing five 3-pointers? Come on man! Just handle the ball and take care of turnovers. I cannot imagine how demoralizing it is for him in practice when Jaaron Simmons tears him up and shows him what a primetime PG is. Next year's starting lineup with Simmons, Kaminski, Ryan Taylor, Tony Campbell and Mike Laster/Jordan Dartis/Gavin Block is going to be sick. I love Stevie when he's on but he seems to be thinking he's a PTP'er. He's not.

He's definitely had a bad start to the season but he'll come out of it. The rest of the team looks pretty bad as well, we can't get a whole lot of open looks and that appears to be hurting us really bad, although Stevie missed a couple wide open shots in the corner tonight.

At this early juncture, this team is merely a poor man's version of last years team though while having an excellent record on paper, you never really felt would go very far despite the excellent record.

You basically replace a polished Nick Kellog (and Travis Wilkins to some degree) with two guys who might very well be just as good or better down the road, but aren't right now (Laster/Taylor). And you replace Jon Smith with Wadley--another downgrade.

Otherwise, it's the same team. So while it's way too early to tell how this season will play out, I'm not expecting a ton more than last year and in fact, expect less. Hope I'm wrong.

It looked like he and Bean weren't aware that we were wearing our home whites last night. Those two (without looking at the box score) had to have combined for 12+ turnovers on their own.

We are going to see a lot of zone this year.
Neither of our guards are natural distributors of the ball. (captain obvious)
When you pile on the fact that none of our bigs are very good
at interior passing defeating the zone becomes a major struggle.
That can get better as they get more experience together however
probably only marginally as court vision and deliverying a pass properly and on time I think is pretty instinctive to begin with. If we aren't knocking them down from range our guards feel the pressure to try to do things they are naturally good at in tight quarters....equals turnovers.
Having KK available to open inside lanes with his outside threat would go a long way toward masking this weakness. Turning blue holding my breath on that however. Super excited for the future, still cautiously optimistic for this season as I think we have enough talented ingrediants that the final product will get better. That's my story and I'm sticking to it....for now.

Think the piling on is unfair. Stevie showed to be a pretty good contributing PG last year, in spite of JC in my opinion. Christian seemed hell-bent to me early on that Willis was going to be the PG and Stevie got a quick hook before he could even get in the flow of the game. When Willis continued to struggle and JC gave Stevie the floor, I think Stevie responded well. It was his leg injury that forced him out, not his play.

Fully acknowledge that Stevie is having a rough start to the Saul-Ball era. I also expect him to settle down and into Saul's system going forward. Stevie has proven to be a competitor, he'll right his ship IMHO.

I think Stevie will be fine. He was out for a bit before the season started due to a concussion, no? A slow start doesn't surprise me.