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Message: [QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 3855037, member: 87"] RF, I have mixed feelings on your take. Now, there are two ways to look at it: 1. what is logically true or 2. what is perceived by a kid we are recruiting. My take on these: 1. Logically, I don't think there is anything at all to the nepotism charges our fanbase have levied against JB. Buddy is clearly, beyond a shadow of a doubt, a quality player. More importantly, he is a [I]shooter[/I]. JB treats shooters very differently. Cooney got gobs of minutes if he was hitting shots or not. GMac, same. Andrew White, same. Other "shooters" the same. Once JB gets convinced you are a shooter - he plays the percentages that the more minutes you log, averages will average out in favor of the good shooter even when they experience slumps. You can disagree with that approach, but that has been his approach with players in the mold of Buddy who don't have a last name starting with Boeheim. Now, Jimmy is NOT such a player. He is not a "shooter." So I don't believe he is going to log gobs of minutes unless he is effective in those minutes. The problem the fans had last year was misplaced charges of nepotism due to misunderstanding that JB was using his "shooter" minutes distro for Buddy and Joe, but not for Kadary (or Kadary suffered the consequently lower amount of available minutes). Anyway - my point is, I do not believe you can expect the minutes allocated to Jimmy to follow the same pattern as those allocated to Buddy. Different players completely and we have a lot (an awful lot) of data on how JB distributes minutes to back that up. In fact, Swider is way more likely to log minutes that make fans scratch their heads than Jimmy is, because he is a "shooter." 2. You may be absolutely right about how a recruit could perceive this situation and say it's a loser. Our own fans are desperate to believe there is nepotism, so why wouldn't a kid from the outside who also has opposing coaches using anything they can get as an advantage promoting the idea. And the whole nepotism thing is probably much more of a real problem in the HS and AAU worlds than it is at an elite college level with millions of dollars at stake so based on Kalumas existing experience base it would be easy to believe. [/QUOTE]

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