Minnesota Ute

This is the second time this season that I’ve watched the girls and boys play back to back, and I have to say that objectively speaking, if you like basketball like I do, the girls are just a lot more fun to watch. They make a lot more buckets, and space the floor nicely. Frankly I’m a bit amazed at how far the girls game has come. Because I…[Read more]

And therein lies my concern. I’m still a little shocked that we lost to OSU. It seems to me like the book is out on us, apply a bunch of pressure and we just crumble.

I hope I never get to that point. I’ve kept fighting through Giac, through Boylen, thru the bad and getting worse Krystko years.

I’m not gonna lie, it’s getting old and I’m really glad (I can’t believe I’m saying this) that the women are fun to watch this year. Hope they get really hot for the second half of the season, they really need a…[Read more]

Yup, it’s always mix and match with him. And no rhyme or reason, or so it looks, for the lineups he chooses. I’m sorry to be a broken record, but yet again, I see no reason why Keanu shouldn’t be starting and playing most of the game. On the flip side, I can NOT understand why Keller is seeing any minutes. At this point, I’m almost hate…[Read more]

Only time will tell whose right, but I am totally out on Smith. OSU game was another piss poor performance. Once again, it was another shot for Craig to play Keanu more and once again he only logged 15 min, while Ezra logged 27. And once again, he was productive and Ezra was also reasonably productive but not comparatively for the minutes. And…[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]

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]

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]

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.

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]

I think you are underselling jake. His season numbers are waaaay better than Hunter.
Not to be a broken record but it should be: Mike, Gabe, Jake, Keanu, Lawson.
Ezra off the bench and Keller has no biz on the floor unless foul trouble requires. Guards off bench is toss up but Miro should be down the list similar to Keller n

I largely agree, although one caveat, the only thing worse than lack of confidence is misplaced confidence. This is what I’m seeing with Ezra/Keanu RE Smith. For whatever reason, despite Keanu putting up really good number consistently all year, Smith just seems to not believe in him. But with Ezra, he keeps giving him the nod no matter how…[Read more]

The player usage would suggest otherwise, but regardless, I don’t think that’s the right way to look at it. His impact isn’t in the shots he takes necessarily, it’s in his overall productivity. He is better than Ezra in almost every category, and they are very similar players; same height, same hops, same position, same strength. So why not…[Read more]

Yeah, he is a tinkerer and I just don’t think that works. You have to put your best players on the floor and let them go at it. I’m struggling with Gabe, by the numbers maybe Hunter should be playing his minutes. Our guards are a mess…

Sorry for the formatting, I guess I don’t really know what I’m doing there.

Let the record show I posted this in the first half…

Not sure what Craig is thinking, Keanu should be 30min a night