Minnesota Ute

I’d have to go back and look to see when I first started ramping up my criticism, but I believe it was around the BYU/Houston games because he had good minutes and put up solid numbers in victories over OSU and TCU, only to fall off the map against BYU. Anyway, regardless of when it started, it’s beyond ridiculous now.

Keanu’s BPM for WV game…[Read more]

That is no excuse. If you don’t have the talent, then you take your 5-6 most productive guys and they all get the majority of the minutes and you take your next 2-3 most productive and use then as needed. The problem with using talent as an excuse for the merry go round is that your 5-6 best players need as many minutes at live game speed to…[Read more]

Oh Please, dude is a rebounding machine.

It is not comforting to hear everyone finally coming around to what I’ve been saying for weeks if not a month, but at least the ones making excuses for Smith and saying Keanu lacks consistency will disappear. He has been nothing but consistent, but as I said again on late last week, there is something Craig “doesn’t like” about Keanu, because…[Read more]

My son’s experience echoed this as well. The kid he kept losing his minutes to was 6’8 and started playing late. My son was only 6’4 but twice as thick and had been playing post with this group of kids since they were in 3rd grade (going largely undefeated in school and traveling ball for years). The coach, who was new to town, seemed hell bent…[Read more]

Trust me, we do not want Pitino, he kind of seems like a neppo baby to me. I saw no evidence that he was much of a coach/leader at Minnesota.

Hopefully when Gabe realizes it, he says: Well, there is only one thing left to do…

It’s been on my mind because I watched a youtube video that provided the only rational realistic explanation that I’ve heard for the Luka Donzic (or however you spell it) trade. As the theory goes, Mavs tank, so that the franchise can move to Vegas. Good for…[Read more]

I can not endorse this post high enough, you are exactly correct. Not to make this about me, but as I’ve relayed in other posts, my middle son went through this exact thing in high school. Like Craig, he had certain players that played consistently (for Craig that seems only to be Gabe), but the rest of the lineup is a crap shoot every…[Read more]

This is the second time this season that I’ve watched the girls and boys play back to back, and I have to say that objectively speaking, if you like basketball like I do, the girls are just a lot more fun to watch. They make a lot more buckets, and space the floor nicely. Frankly I’m a bit amazed at how far the girls game has come. Because I…[Read more]

And therein lies my concern. I’m still a little shocked that we lost to OSU. It seems to me like the book is out on us, apply a bunch of pressure and we just crumble.

I hope I never get to that point. I’ve kept fighting through Giac, through Boylen, thru the bad and getting worse Krystko years.

I’m not gonna lie, it’s getting old and I’m really glad (I can’t believe I’m saying this) that the women are fun to watch this year. Hope they get really hot for the second half of the season, they really need a…[Read more]

Yup, it’s always mix and match with him. And no rhyme or reason, or so it looks, for the lineups he chooses. I’m sorry to be a broken record, but yet again, I see no reason why Keanu shouldn’t be starting and playing most of the game. On the flip side, I can NOT understand why Keller is seeing any minutes. At this point, I’m almost hate…[Read more]

Only time will tell whose right, but I am totally out on Smith. OSU game was another piss poor performance. Once again, it was another shot for Craig to play Keanu more and once again he only logged 15 min, while Ezra logged 27. And once again, he was productive and Ezra was also reasonably productive but not comparatively for the minutes. And…[Read more]

Very good point on Ezra creating. I have a little love/hate relationship with that though, because sometimes it seems like when he is backing people down, the rest of the team sort of stops and watches. And too many times, especially against good athletic teams, he backs them down only to get blocked, his shot altered to miss, or he is fouled and…[Read more]

Very good analysis, my only caveats to everything you said is that, because he is generally more consistent, we’ll never really know (at least this year) what type of player he could have been if he played the 30 min per game. It’s easy to say that, for example, that Ezra single handedly won the BYU game. But Keaunu played just 11 min to Ezra’s…[Read more]

If you don’t like recency, here are 3 terrible games for Ezra that aren’t recent.

Iowa St: 24 min, 2-7 for 4ps, 28%fg, 4 rb, 0-2 ft, and 2 turnovers
Houston: 21 min, 1 pt, 2 to, 0-4 for 0%fg, 3 rb
Baylor#1: 20 min, 1-8 12.5% 3pts, 6 rb

I challenge you to come up with even 2 games that bad that Keanu had when he played more than 17 min.

Baylor…[Read more]

Agree to disagree. While everyone, EVERYONE, has off games, Kenau despite limited minutes coming off the bench, he has been far more consistent than Ezra. His season stats show that.

Keanu Stats

Ezra

Look at these, and sort them by minutes played, look at the games where they played +20 min, then be honest with yourself. Keanu is a no brainer.

It’s a copy paste. It’s one of the stats it gives, not one I cited. Make sense?