I have advocates a shorten bench for a while …
Best run in Pikiell history, that four-game stretch in Feb. 2022, the starters were playing like 35 mins a game. Wonder if he goes to that this year at some point
yep. play the starting five and j mike. Maybe give gavin a little run just to see if he can hit a few shots and develop his confidence. Don’t need to see Fernandez and Oscar as they aren’t here next year anyways. Wolf can play a few minutes to spell Cliff but he has regressed bigtime as well
Agreed, we had much better players back in 2022. Pike could have worked the substitutions differently but at some point he has to take guys out and rest them. I wish he would just take guys out in a staggered fashion as opposed to two at a time, three at a time, four at a time, etc.. I don’t think they were winning that game today no matter what Pike did with his subbing, but they may have stayed competitive later into the game, and also not given up a 19-0 run.
I don’t get it these kids are 21 years old they get a tv time out 4 minutes there’s no no reason you can’t ride them for more time when they are playing so well like that
You should. End of the half and the above substitution at 14 minutes cost us the game. Immediately went into droughts. Both times that was Davis.
Actually Palmquist has a good +/- compared to many others on defense at least.
He's one of the more talented players on the team. He was leading us in assist to turnover ratio much of the season. He's trying too hard to make plays now, which talented guys on struggling teams will do. But he's not part of the bench "issue" anymore than Hyatt and Mag are part of the starters issue. He just needs to play within himself and stop pressing.
As GS has said numerous times, you can play with your hair on fire and let it fly with full confidence within a structure and system.
Of course you don’t but he was yesterday. Both times we went into the long droughts he was on the court.
Exactly why I would never and DO NOT like the wholesale subs Pike makes. When MSU went on that 19-0 run we also could see with our eyeballs it was a recipe for disaster and do not need the analytics to tell us that. That said, the numbers don’t lie and no way that Noah, JMike, Palm and Woolf should be in the floor together EVER. This is why I prefer single subs to spell a guy here or there for a breather so you don’t lose the top end momentum.
Yes and this shows we do have an offense and sets. The issue to me is we get guys who want to play hero ball and once they get any opening want the ISO 1:1 and typically settle for a mid range. Either due to shot clock expiry or just lack of looking for others
It’s why I would shorten my bench and limit subs to 1 possibly two players at any given time.
BPM is 90% garbage.....Real + / - is preferred. Looking at real + /- might only be 70% garbage.
Uh, I'm not too sure. I think the state of the art stat along these lines is an adjusted +/- (i.e. actual plus/minus but adjusted for who you're on the court with and against) which is then regressed back toward BPM to smooth out some of the noise. (I think this is what RPM is?)
