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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5670423, member: 405"]
Well, no, you said he's a bad player.  You spent about 3 sentences saying so after you posted his stats.  And without his key plays, we would have lost that last game.  So, you picked a poor time to pile on yet again.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.  JB and Red have recruited worse players, by far.  We all know that Red's not a good coach, but how did he 'cause' JJ?

JJ plays too much because other players haven't been better than him.  It's that simple.

If Kiyan Anthony was any good at all, he would have taken at least 10 minutes of his time.

If Nait George wasn't such a turnover machine, JJ wouldn't have played so much at lead guard.

If Nate Kingz was hitting his outside shots for the first half of the season he would have taken more of JJ's minutes at the SG.

BUT THEY DIDN'T.  So JJ keeps getting minutes.  If the other guys played better, he wouldn't get so many.

JJ never got over injuries, and the other guys who were supposed to be the designated stars didn't live up to their billing, either.

Yes, they are.  But Donnie sat out 9 games with his injury, when under Boeheim, he likely would have been back playing sooner, before our season was on life support.

Kyle is the best 6-7 center in basketball, but that's what he is, a 6-7 center who can jump like Stevie Thompson.

Kingz has done everything else that Chris Bell never did, he's been a great defender, drives the ball well, works really hard for the team.  He started well from three in his first 3 games.

But he only had 1 good game from outside in the next 7, stretching from mid-December to mid-January, shooting only 9 for 30 from three.

He's only made 3 or more threes in a game 7 out of 25 times.  That's our best outside shooter.  Betsey only has 3 games where he has made 3 threes.

Maybe if Kingz didn't have that bad month, his confidence would be better and our offense would be better.  Maybe if Betsey could drive with the ball better, he would get more time, too.
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