One of the downsides of playing for a high level program like Gonzaga is sometimes the expectations are just too high to be realistically met. Case and point: Silas Melson.
Silas Melson’s redshirt freshman campaign was cut cruelly short by Josh Perkins face getting obliterated. So Melson had to get his seasoning on the fly, and as we all detailed, it was a rather rough ordeal. The same thing carried over his sophomore season, where Melson and Josh Perkins were filling in the shoes of Kevin Pangos and Gary Bell Jr., a task that could never be completed properly.