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[QUOTE="shandeezy7, post: 3176606, member: 720"]
People love to say that, but Buddy only got the longer leash after he earned it. He played 52 mins combined in the first two games against creampuffs and was awful. The next seven games he played 55 mins combined. After that is when he started to come on and earned himself more minutes. 12 points in 17 minutes against Bonaventure. 13 points in 19 minutes against Pitt. 12 points in 15 minutes against Miami. 13 points in 21 minutes against BC followed up by 16 points in 23 mins the next BC game.

Conversely, Carey played 187 minutes in his first 9 games, and after a strong showing in MSG, regressed drastically, but not for a lack of opportunity. 0 points in 18 minutes against Colgate. 4 points in 15 minutes against OSU. 4 points in 17 minutes against Northeastern. 3 points in 23 minutes against Georgetown. 4 points in 19 minutes against Bonaventure. 0 points in 12 minutes against Georgia Tech, which was the last time he saw anything over 10 minutes.

The "Buddy didn't earn more playing time over Jalen" crowd doesn't have much of a leg to stand on when actually analyzing the stats. Jalen had lots of opportunities and didn't capitalize. Buddy took advantage of the opportunity that he was given (eventually at Jalen's expense) and made the most of it. I mean people act like he should be playing at Le Moyne, and yet he averaged 8 ppg in ACC play on 56% from the field and 41% from three. He was our most consistent deep threat, by far.
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