There are 200 minutes of playing time in regulation distributed to 5 players on the court. MCCaffery boys totaled 54 of those minutes tonight. They hogged 27% of the playing time while scoring 4% of the points. They’re playing about 7 times more than what they’re worth.
THIS ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE
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Parse that out with their turnovers, defensive lapses (Pat), and it gets uglier.
Fran is the boyfriend that is good to his girl 50% of the time and the fans are the girlfriend too afraid to leave.
Patrick shouldn't be getting playing time. Connor had a horrible game but that isn't the norm with him. I'm good with Connor getting minutes but bench Pat.
Minutes yes. Over 30, no. 20 tops
Who was any better last night that didn’t play?
Connor hogged his way into being the leading rebounder, selfish bastard
Kingsbury. At least he can shoot. That basket needed to be 5 feet wide last night and at NW.
You’ll never know if you don’t play them. Dix and sanfort need more minutes and who knows what Bowen might have been able to do. One mistake and he’s toast.
He is the first one to know where all his misses are going.
It may have been Dix if he were given the chance. Heck, he grabbed one more board and equaled Patrick's assist total in only 6 minutes of play. Dix's 3 ball just missed as I recall. He is shooting just under 40% from 3 point land this season. On a night where we shot 10% from 3 point land and he only gets 6 minutes in lieu of a combined 54 minutes between Fran's sons? That's criminal.
What an informative thread. Other than giving Dix more playing time, I'm not sure Fran has a lot of good options, which is a problem itself. If Kris doesn't snap out of his funk, what looked like an exciting ending to the season, isn't happening.
I'm not sure how you discount not giving Dix more PT last night. We shot just over 10% from 3 point range; it killed us all night long and you have Dix (shooting at a 40% clip from 3 point region) playing 6 minutes - 1/3 of the time that Patrick played last; who brings absolutely nothing to the table? Makes zero sense to me.
The coach's kids getting favoritism in playing time is fair game for criticism. Fran is paid $3 million a year to maximize the team performance not to maximize his kid's playing time and his own enjoyment in being able to see them play for him. There clearly is a Fran rule that there has to be at least 1 McCaffery on the floor at all times....the last two games given how poorly the starters played and the 1st two backups Sandfort and PMAC played poorly, it is a wonder that Fran didn't take the opportunity to bench some guys and play more Dix/Bowen/Mulvey..but Fran never benches his two boys and CMAC is a 3 year starter when his talent says he should have been coming off the bench for the past 3 years.
This team is doing okay and probably was winning a little more than its talent and we are merely reverting to the average. This is a 3ball shooting team that wins or loses based on how the 3ball is dropping. They don't play great defense, don't rebound exceptionally well, don't drive the ball well, don't have much in paint scoring. We're on track for a little bit above 0.500 B1G season, and maybe 1 win in BTT and maybe 1 win in NCAA tourney....so this is what is defined as a successful season by Fran Fans and no worries. If they do manage to Fade and miss the NCAA tourney, then expect more complaining from the usual suspects, but in the end it is all noise because this is just an opinion board.
It’s an anomaly when a guard leads a team in rebounds. Something ain’t right with the whole team when this occurs
Perkins dominated at Michigan last year and the Hawks won. I don't think it means anything.
Plus look at Kingsbury's arms and shoulders. Built just like his Dad. If the kid does not get a chance by early next year he will leave and you'll never know...
He also led in turnovers, bricks, and hissy fits but whose counting?
That was a very nice surprise but a total outlier performance. He's still averaging about 1 board per 8 or 9 minutes of game action. Sandfort averages more boards playing 2/3 the minutes Connor does and he can actually score and has a future on the team. He just has the wrong last name. Should be his minutes
I agree with most of this, except your list of guys who can come of the bench is not based on anything I have seen. Dix YES! Anyone else has not shown anything to warrant playing time in an important game, especially on the road.
Connor has been in a shooting funk the the last few games, after being hot for most of the previous conference games, but regardless, is still one of our guys we need on the court. Unfortunately, except for being effective at the point of the press and sometimes spotting up as a shooter, Patrick hasn't been giving us much. I don't understand why he can't rebound better, because he is not the skinny kid that came into the program anymore. Hawks must have Kris playing at a much higher level than he has the past few games, AND 1 or 2 of Rebraca, Perkins or Sandfort scoring well.
Who discounted giving Dix more PT? I noted that in my post. The problem is that he is the only viable option, if Patrick is lost and Sandfort is not cooking. IMO, Dix is clearly a better player than Patrick right now, and he plays a lot better defense than Payton or Patrick, even if he isn't hitting.
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