Haha I said *shades*! Not the second coming! But in all serious, Coach K likes those tall, positionless guys who can slide 2-4 and Collins is very much building us to play the same way. There’s a world where Brooks plays the Dunleavy point-forward spot for us. How many guys have we truly had like that, those 6-7+ guys who could bring the ball down court and run the offense? Maybe Shurna? Vedran? And like... Jeff Ryan?
We literally just tried that experiment two years ago with 6'7 AJ Turner. Didn't go too well.
But perhaps Brooks is a more natural point forward. I agree that Collins is trying to emulate Duke with the position-less basketball. But I think that's more of a factor of Duke just having so many amazing recruits that you just need to get them on the floor regardless of position. Guys like RJ Barrett and Zion are going to play, doesn't matter if you have a more traditional player at their position.
For NU, I don't think we have that luxury and we still need a traditional PG like B-Mac or Juice and a big rim protector/rebounder like Ryan Young. I'm curious to see if we will have two PG sets this year with Boo and Berry.