Wyking Jones retrospective: An Inevitable End

This was how it was always going to end. This wasn’t hard to predict. Inexperienced, unheralded new coach + wildly difficult roster situation = disaster.

And no, this isn’t 20/20 hindsight. Way back when Wyking Jones was hired, CGB tried to put on a brave face, hoping against hope that there was some reason that this experiment would work despite no particular evidence that it would. But behind the scenes the general mood was despair. Some of the CGB basketball writers chat through twitter DMs. Here is an exchange between Reef (grey) and myself (blue) upon learning that Cal had hired Wyking Jones to replace Cuonzo Martin:

Reef’s comment three days later after Jemarl Baker decommitted?