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Message: [QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 1278167, member: 60"] You said this, "Maybe because he does 10x more positive and also impacts the ability of others to get open looks?" I missed hitting it verbatim, but I was close. This was in response to BJ getting pulled quickly after one mistake versus Cooney making many. I don't care what any coach allegedly says. I know what I see. His stat line was awful against UNC. 28 points on 26 FGA when he isn't our best player is outrageous. That isn't even counting him barely contributing boards or assists since he was in the whole game. That also isn't counting his poor defensive lapses and his long boards leading to breaks coming from his ridiculous shots against a team that runs. And his decision making with shooting isn't isolated to this game. I guarantee any coach we have yet to play would take that stat line over and over if it could be guaranteed. It's inefficient, detrimental to the betterment of the team and takes possessions away from our best player, who is Rak. Rak is vying to be an All American. TC isn't even remotely in that conversation. I think TC is a good player, but that was a bad game. He is not nearly good enough to pull possessions from Rak. For the year he has 257 FGA and 309 points. Rakeem has 249 FGA and 387 points. eFG%, which accounts for the value of 3 pointers v. 2 pointers, is 49% to 59%. True Shooting %, Win Shares, etc. I can go on and on. They all say the same thing. Our not-best-player accounted for more than double the shots than our best player. It's either bad coaching or bad decision making by TC or both. I don't care how many HoF responses I get from posting this. I'd love to hear all these coaches who are gushing about TC who aren't counting their lucky stars that TC is taking more shots than Rak. Does he have an imapct on the game? Sure. Everyone that plays does. But that is a cop out when discussing this. [/QUOTE]

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