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Knell was more worried about mocking the crowd than making his free throws. Hall was irritated because he couldn’t get the slivers out of his butt from sitting on the bench and watching the freshman take over his position.

I agree Holladay. They were being overly aggressive when our bigs had the ball. They were happy with a steal or a foul so to complain after the game is bush league. Always the hypocrites when it comes to the refs. After 1 good year in FB and NIL money to buy a good BB team their fans are back to being whiny a-holes again. It was nice not hearing…[Read more]

Mason also underutilized and I think his recent game minutes are below his season average, not trending the right way.

Keanu def underutilized (IMO), which is why I’m harping on it.

On the other side, Gabe it could be argued is grossly over utilized. But then you look at Miro & Hunter, and think meh, good to see Mike being increasingly utilized. Beyond him the other guards are a toss up. It does make more sense that Craig is using Wahlin more frequently as a…[Read more]

Player BPM MPG
Keanu: 8.2 15.3
Lawson: 7.8 23.2
Wahlin: 5.2 21.6
Mason: 5.2 18.7
Mongo: 5.3 21.9
Gabe: 3.3 28.6
Ezra: 2.2 19.9
Miro: 2.1 21.5
Hunter: 1.9 21.3
Keller: 0.7 10.4

I’ve seen a lot of players shoot air balls in college and the NBA. It’s obviously rare, but it happens. Props to him for hitting the 3 and making 3/4 free throws w/ all the pressure of the world on his shoulders. I have criticized Erickson for his entire tenure w/ us. He made the clutch plays to win us this game = he deserves nothing but love…[Read more]

No kidding. I re-watched the last 5 minutes of regulation and all of overtime. I tried to pay attention to the whistles and I’d love for their fans to call out any specific calls (or no calls) they disagree with. I really don’t see many, if any, questionable calls. They were playing highly aggressive defense whenever Lovering and/or Ausar were…[Read more]

I use this site, click on any header to sort on that stat

Good stuff.

Would be interesting to see minutes per game added to the side of BPM in your list. This would highlight the underuse of certain high impact players and overuse of certain low impact players.

I hear ya, good point. And to this point in the season, the BPM looks like this:

Keanu: 8.2
Lawson: 7.8
Wahlin: 5.2
Mason: 5.2
Mongo: 5.3
Gabe: 3.3
Ezra: 2.2
Miro: 2.1
Hunter: 1.9
Keller: 0.7

And the DBPM still has Jake, Laswon, Mongo, & Keanu in the top 4 spots, but Mason and Gabe fall down the list and Miro & Hunter jump up.

So my question…[Read more]

just think if Utah can make free throws, they win by twenty,

if Utah had 2 to 3 players score in double digits they win by twenty.

again Dawes sit the bench most of the game ! props to Auser and Lawson.

Smith coaching needs improvement at best.

speaking of little bitches, I have been watching Utah / byu games for 40 plus years, they have always had little B;s on the team, this year is d Hall and K Knell cry babies at best.

I don’t mean to pitch Erickson, he is just a guy. But he has got his FT% up to the high 80s this year. He did airball a FT but the game ended with the 3 he hit and 3 for 4 at the line in the last minutes for out last points. Not all league but no other all league guys showed up to end the game. By rule, I gota say thanks to anyone that helps get a…[Read more]

Smith and Ainge forgot to ask Young if he could actually Coach basketball.

Early reviews on him are not good.

Yes. This! It’s like our guards and coaches realized the physicality of the BIG 12 doesn’t allow guards to just pass the ball around the arc. The ball needs to go inside to open up the outside.

It’s interesting how our recent win streak has come about as we’ve gotten more aggressive inside and made a conscious effort to get the ball into the low block. Through most of the non-conference schedule we lived and died by the three – we were the top 3-point team in the country for a while. Now, obviously it really helped our inside presence…[Read more]

This is the second time that I’ve seen Erickson airball a FT. He did it last year as well. I’m almost 60 years old and have been watching organized basketball since the mid-70s and had never seen another player do that, either in the pros or college.

The FT shooting was frustrating, no doubt. Not an excuse but several players did get gassed. FT% in the first half was acceptable, but not great. Second half it dropped but not much. But the OT period we were 4-12 which is god awful while the Y was 0-1 in OT. Still, for the game Utah was 53% vs 40% for the Y. We noticed every FT in overtime and…[Read more]