Jonesy on media day:
It’s been written and spoken that Penn State may deploy the best backcourt in the Big Ten this year and that could be true enough. Tim Frazier’s ruptured right Achilles tendon very early last season forced off-guard D.J. Newbill to learn the point.
Now Frazier is back for his fifth year as a senior and from the looks of this afternoon’s practice is fully recovered. And the Philadelphia-bred junior Newbill is a more well-rounded guard than he ever would have been had Frazier not been hurt.
It looks like a potent duo, especially considering a new NCAA initiative to call fouls on any continuous hand-checking. Both guards can go to the rack with alacrity.
But two major questions remain for a Nittany Lion men’s basketball team that struggled without Frazier to 10-21, 2-16 in the Big Ten:
1. Who can consistently make a wing 3-pointer and potentially open up the floor further?
2. Is it realistic to expect that anyone among of a gang of thin and gangly forwards and centers can merely stay competitive once the Big Ten grind rolls around?
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