Here's Friday's Dear Gary ...
Dear Gary: Roy Hibbert soft? Maybe in your eyes. Georgetown didn't know how to utilize the big fella. He showed me he can play. Just thought I'd let you know.
-- Jim
Thanks so much for letting me know, Jim. And I didn't really call Hibbert "soft" as much as I pointed out how the word "soft" seems to always surround him, and that's true, by the way. I once asked somebody close to the Georgetown program a simple question: Why isn't Roy Hibbert awesome? The answer: "He's too soft." So that's where that comment came from, and it seems like I've been arguing with folks about Hibbert for years, but I can honestly tell you I was happy to see him go 17th. That's higher than most mock drafts had him and higher than I thought he'd go, and though I've never been a big fan of Hibbert's game he does seem like a nice guy who deserves good things and I like seeing nice guys who deserve good things get good things.
Either way, I'll stand by my initial point from last year, which was that Hibbert would not help himself in any tangible way by returning to Georgetown for his senior season. I don't think anybody could argue that he did, and don't tell me about his degree. He could've got that degree in the summers or at any point once his basketball career was over. So I still don't believe Hibbert helped himself with that senior year, but he obviously didn't hurt himself as much as I thought he might.