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?