GoBigGreenBasketball
Masters Student
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Age: 52
Reg: 05-19-16
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02-08-17 08:08 PM - Post#221047
In response to hoopla
Lets be honest from the Pros to the preteen leagues politics and positioning play a role. From the Knicks front office and Carmelo's contract to the Buss family fued and Kobe's farwell contract. Those aren't basketball decisions. There's daddy ball in AAU and pressure from Alumni that encouraged Steve Alford to give back his extension. There are a lot of things that go on outside of the game that impact the game.
I'm sure that there's pressures to play certain players, because it's good for recruiting. You don't want to bust a prep school pipeline or tick off a wealthy alum. Coaches have their favorites they have guys they trust over others, they have guys who will get minutes despite their travels, turnovers, lack of defense, or lack of offense. I guess the question is how honest coaches are with the players? I look at Cameron Smiths utter lack of PT and have no answers, he's not injured. He played 33 minutes in a game against Hartford last year, started, scored in double figures, and we won. He couldn't be that bad. We lost to Hartford this year!  He had 1 TO in 33 mins. We played a guy who had 3 TOs in 5 mins!? IJS. We've got guys that per KenPom are nearly invisible at the forward spot outside of Evan.
Go-to guys (>28% of possessions used)
Evan Boudreaux
Significant Contributors (20-24% of possessions used)
Miles Wright
Guillien Smith
Taylor Johnson
Ian Carter
Role Players (16-20% of possessions used)
Ian Sistare
Brendan Barry
Limited roles (12-16% of possessions used)
Wesley Dickinson
Ike Ngwudo
Nearly invisible (<12% of possessions used)
Mike Fleming
Benchwarmers (played in fewer than 10% of team's minutes)
Will Emery
Cameron Smith
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Edited by GoBigGreenBasketball on 02-08-17 08:23 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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