Griz basketball signs fifth recruit
The Griz basketball program signed its fifth recruit as Lloyd Phillips out of Allen County Community College has decided to play for the University of Montana.
Phillips is a bit small at 5'10" but he's only going to be a sophomore and has the ability to shoot the ball as he made 48.3% of his shots from distance while averaging 17.2 ppg and 3.5 assists this past season.
The guard position is pretty stacked with these type of guys as the Griz now have four young point guards if you toss tweener Zach Graves into the bunch. It's five total if you decide to count Matt Martin as a 1. The starting job is all locked up in Cameron Rundles but it will be a fight for the spots behind him.
Rundles has shown he can play the two in the Big Sky so this will a lot with two point guards on the floor. It will make be easier for guys like Phillips, Graves and Cox to find time if Staudacher and Martin aren't knocking down shots.
I can just about guarantee you that Cam will play mostly at the 2. I'll bet that one or both of the new JC point guards will get tons of time. These are 2 pretty accomplished recruits. Phillips had one of the top JC 3 point percentages in the country.
It's lookin that way. It's probably better that we have too many PGs and not enough SGs than the other way around. I'd hate for our starting 1 to actually be more of a 2-guard.
I got a chance to see Lloyd Phillips play in the jayhawk juco conference this season and i thought he was a high major player that didnt have high major size the grizzlies got a steal he can really shoot the ball and also can take his man off the bounce at will he will help the grizz alot