Boston seems like just yesterday, but our countdown has us at 20 days out from the 2018-19 college basketball season.
The topography of a freshman point guard’s season is rarely a steady incline. Instead, the complexities of college offenses mixed with adjusting to D1 athletes all over the floor usually lead to a yo-yo effect of occasional brilliance and more often than not frustrations. Turnovers tend to pile up alongside bad shots and defensive lapses.
Nojel Eastern’s freshman season was no exception. He struggled predictably as he adjusted to no longer being the best (and biggest) guard on the floor at the time.