Why Dylan Harper & Ace Bailey Struggled at Rutgers

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00:00Why couldn't Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey win together was what threw me off.

00:05I can never understand how average they were.

00:08That team was awful.

00:10Well, I think it starts with the fact that they didn't have a lot beyond those two.

00:16I think it was hard for Rutgers to be Rutgers.

00:18Rutgers got to be successful in the Big Ten over the previous few years

00:23by being this lunch pail type of team that worked hard on both ends of the floor,

00:30especially at the defensive end, were never a lead offensively.

00:33That was hard to instill into a couple of five-star freshmen in short order.

00:38They had less talent around them.

00:40After Cliff Amore decided to go to Alabama,

00:44they lost a lot of what would have made them a successful team.

00:49And also, Dylan was hurt a lot.

00:50And they didn't get a lot of health as a result of that.

00:54Ace came into the year hurt, so he missed a lot of the preseason prep.

00:57It just didn't work.

00:59And honestly, Scott, the history of this circumstance,

01:03where you aren't used to having these guys, not just five-star guys,

01:08but like the very cream, the guys who are going to be lottery picks,

01:12if you're not used to having them in your program, you usually fail.

01:16When you go back to Washington with Lorenzo Romar, when it ended up costing him his career,

01:23we've seen a lot of coaches that were fired very close to having those sorts of players on their team.

01:29And it's not a great situation.

01:32So I don't look at those two guys as what Rutgers was this year.

01:36I look at them as prospects, irrespective of what they did in terms of their team success.

01:44And I think Dylan is a great prospect.

01:47He fits the mold of what the new point guard is, the Shea Gilgis, Alexander, Tyrese, Halliburton, 6'5", 6'6", guy.

01:54Except he's more physical than either player.

01:56And how that comes into play and how that works for him, we will see.

02:00But he's physically stronger than either one of them.

02:03And then Ace is, it's phenomenal to see what's the narrative that's happened with him over the last week and a half.

02:12Because I talked to Steve Peichel probably before that really started to go.

02:17And Steve is like, this kid is the best kid that I have.

02:21He is just wonderful.

02:23He says, the best explanation of it is, he said, we have like 26 student managers in our program.

02:28And I think I know most of them, but I don't know all of them.

02:32And he said Ace knows every single guy because that's the kind of guy he is.

02:36He connects with people around him.

02:39He plays with great joy.

02:41That's something that Fran Fraschilla from ESPN told me in the article.

02:46He's not the player he's being portrayed as.

02:48They seem to be trying to get him to go to a certain direction.

02:53And I don't know what that direction is, Scott.

02:55But I don't understand it because what you should be trying to do is go as high in the draft as possible.

03:02The difference between the number three pick and the number six pick doesn't seem like much, Scott.

03:06Over the first three years of the contract, the rookie scale contract, it is $8 million.

03:13That's like playing a full year for free.

03:17Why would you do that voluntarily?

03:19Why would you do that voluntarily?

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