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Yormark deciding how bad he hates us.

Yes for the weekends and holidays. It’s kind of a pain, but the alternative is mass chaos.

Does Alta have a reserved parking system now?

Great point on Kuzma. It’s also a shame that w/ three legit NBA players (Wright, Poetl, and Kuzma), we only got one Sweet 16 appearance. Obviously grateful for that one year, but it seems like we had the talent to potentially go deeper than we did. Unfortunately, we ran into the eventual champs that year!

I like Craig Smith and I think he’s…[Read more]

Very good point on Ezra creating. I have a little love/hate relationship with that though, because sometimes it seems like when he is backing people down, the rest of the team sort of stops and watches. And too many times, especially against good athletic teams, he backs them down only to get blocked, his shot altered to miss, or he is fouled and…[Read more]

PAC often got the schedule out during the previous autumn, one thing they did get right.

Would like to know what our dates are as I have work coverage on the weekends about every 6 weeks (that schedule is assigned at the first of the year) and sooner I know the game days the easier it is to find someone to switch weekends with.

Good points. To me, it feels like we have too many guys who deserve 20 minutes per game and not enough guys who deserve 30 minutes per game. The best teams in our conference (and in the country) seem to have 3-4 guys that clearly carry the load and where the team is built around them. We have Gabe and Gabe is great, but he seemed to thrive as…[Read more]

Very good analysis, my only caveats to everything you said is that, because he is generally more consistent, we’ll never really know (at least this year) what type of player he could have been if he played the 30 min per game. It’s easy to say that, for example, that Ezra single handedly won the BYU game. But Keaunu played just 11 min to Ezra’s…[Read more]

Here is a summary of all the games that were either losses or against conference opponents:

Cincinnati: Dawes was hot and got the minutes. Ausar didn’t have that bad of a game though. Both of them had 4 turnovers, but Ausar produced an efficient 11 points in the 16 minutes he played.

Baylor: Ausar was hot and got the minutes. He was basically…[Read more]

If you don’t like recency, here are 3 terrible games for Ezra that aren’t recent.

Iowa St: 24 min, 2-7 for 4ps, 28%fg, 4 rb, 0-2 ft, and 2 turnovers
Houston: 21 min, 1 pt, 2 to, 0-4 for 0%fg, 3 rb
Baylor#1: 20 min, 1-8 12.5% 3pts, 6 rb

I challenge you to come up with even 2 games that bad that Keanu had when he played more than 17 min.

Baylor…[Read more]

As far as off games go, I really miss Worster who we lost in the portal. Was always reliable to have a handful of assists, handful of rebounds, and a few baskets, and made few turnovers. Seldom had a game he didn’t make a good contribution.

Agree to disagree. While everyone, EVERYONE, has off games, Kenau despite limited minutes coming off the bench, he has been far more consistent than Ezra. His season stats show that.

Keanu Stats

Ezra

Look at these, and sort them by minutes played, look at the games where they played +20 min, then be honest with yourself. Keanu is a no brainer.

It’s a copy paste. It’s one of the stats it gives, not one I cited. Make sense?

It’s not recency bias, its season stats. You cherry pick two games, I look at the body of work.

ESPN also said this:

In the most parity-friendly major conference in college football, you rarely get the breaks you need in consecutive seasons. So Arizona State (6-2 in one-score games), Iowa State (5-1) and Texas Tech (6-1, and another from the “also considered” list) are out. In their place roll Utah (1-5) and Kansas (1-5). Kyle Whittingham’s…

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Right you are there Jim. Neither BYU nor ASU will be able to sneak up on anybody next season. Both teams will have bulleyes on them and I’m sure many an opponent has the dates they play them circled on their calendar. Last season, if any QB not called Rising plays down in Tempe, Utah probably wins that game. Hell, they almost won it with…[Read more]

Personally I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility that a player like him might have been much better under a coach like RM. So I don’t think it’s an absolute truth that he wouldn’t see the court. And I agree that he is much improved from last year. But unfortunately the fact that he is playing a pivotal role in certain victories is an indictment of…[Read more]

Awesome.