Did you cite egwu as an example of player development. He was literally the same player for the last 3 years. He's a glaring example of not developing. Look at all of his stats. Or his just about average (mostly sub average) win shares all 3 of his last years.
Who are you basing that on? My eyes and comparison to other coaches in the B1G who are great developers of young men when looking at what they do with incoming freshmen to exiting players. And stats in comparison to those players in other programs. example - kenrick nunn had an Ortg of 106.7 and a Drtg of 103.3 when he entered the program. Last year he had an Ortg of 104.9 Drtg of 105. Even if you assume drtg has a greater dependency on his teammates (which in some way it does) his ortg has shown non-statistically significant improvement at best. And I know he missed last year but abrams may have improved but if you get your star player to an ortg of 97 that's notthing to hang your hat on. I don't have time to look through them all. but these are examples.
I don't know if I'm feeling comforted right now but I know we're not the last 3 weeks bad. So there's that. And as TT posted, the first 3 months were not some kind of mirage. I just wanna feel a win vs. a non Reds team.
he cited "the last few appearances" as reason for evaluating the trade negatively (which doesn't even take into acct. that it allowed us to have zobrist). Not fwar.