It's been said many of times.... Connor is not coming to Iowa to play PG -- he will be a SG and maybe might dabble with a little SF because he's 6'4 and the average SF height in college is 6'3.
If that is being said, then this has not always been the narrative.
But as many have pointed out, Fran may be able to get away without having a true point guard because so many people handle the ball in his motion offense (though, I still think he would love to have a top PG running the show).
This HAS become the new narrative, in the past few months, related to point guard. All of the sudden, Iowa doesn't really need true point guards in its system because it doesn't run a lot of set pieces.
That may be true....however, Fran has tried to recruit several true point guards, every year, and has had the most trouble with that position on the recruiting trail. Tyler Ulis was nothing if not a true PG, and a scorer. I think Fran would take a scoring PG every other class, until he retired.
That said, he's trying to make Lemonade...and that is good...what Iowa needs, and this has been a challenge for most of my life watching Iowa basketball save for the Ravelling classes, is MULTIPLE players who can take off the dribble, and get to the rim. I think the 2016-2017 team will be as athletic as Fran has had as Iowa...but also pretty green. As of right now, you don't have a lot of proven players who can take you off the dribble. I am not just talking PG, I am talking one through three positions, and if you are lucky and have a Uthoff skill set at the stretch four, then the four.
If you can get two's who can slash, three's who can slash, stretch fours who can hit the three, and a PG who can at least hold his own out there being guarded by the other team's quicker PG, and exploit the mismatches he brings in size, if we are talking about Christian WIlliams, then you have some angles.