College Sports (Basketball)

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Uihoop2023!
PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
Jaland Lowe played 9 games (in two of those games he played 3 minutes and 8 minutes).

Quaintance played 4 games (in one of them played 7 minutes).

That's the sample size you're using to support your point-per-game loophole.

Quaintance was a 1st round pick. Lowe averaged 17 & 6 in the ACC the season prior.

The only comparable one is Ty here (and he wasn't as significant to our team as Lowe or Quaintance).

Z didn't miss any games.
Tomi only missed 1 High Major game (maybe 2 if we count BAMA).
Andrej missed 2 high major games.
Kylan missed 7 High major games, which is significant, but nothing close to a season ender.
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Come on Quaintance was severely injured late the year before and it was common knowledge that he was not going to be ready to start the year. After tweaking the injury his camp made the decision that he wouldnt play for the rest of the season to not jeopardize his draft status.
 
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NarrowJ
Fly Illini Fly! said:
Because they were playing hurt. Obviously scaling the production won’t look good if they were playing on one arm or one leg. (and honestly Lowe’s pts/ast numbers aren’t that bad scaled to 30 minutes)

Let’s say it was an Illinois player, and they only played 4-9 games in low minutes while visibly hurt… would you really be willing to criticize their games based off of scaling that small/injured sample?
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Any players playing hurt (debatable anyway) is merely another coaching failure by Pope.

If it were an Illinois player I’d consider factual data exactly as I am in Kentucky’s case.

Pope put together an exorbitantly expensive roster that couldn’t overcome injury setback headlined by an awful shooter (26% threes at Pitt on volume) as a main perimeter option and paid a ton for an already badly injured center. I think that’s far more significant than trying to claim Kentucky played wheelchair basketball all year.
 
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PleaseMakeABowlGame
This was Indy Illini Fan's reporting about Kentucky"s team last offseason:

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PleaseMakeABowlGame
NarrowJ said:
Pope put together an exorbitantly expensive roster that couldn’t overcome injury setback headlined by an awful shooter (26% threes at Pitt on volume) as a main perimeter option and paid a ton for an already badly injured center. I think that’s far more significant than trying to claim Kentucky played wheelchair basketball all year.
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Poor shooter doesn’t automatically mean not a good player.

Andrej shot 24% from 3 and I’d argue he was our second best player (at worst third).

Lowe averaged 17 & 6 in the ACC. He was a big addition and a big loss.
 
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NarrowJ
PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
Poor shooter doesn’t automatically mean not a good player.

Andrej shot 24% from 3 and I’d argue he was our second best player (at worst third).

Lowe averaged 17 & 6 in the ACC. He was a big addition and a big loss.
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I didn't say he wasn't a good player, but lets be real here: Andrej was a driving force behind Illinois' F4 appearance (.530 eFG%) and Lowe was a poor volume chucker on a 17-15 Pitt team (.396 eFG%).

With all due respect Lowe couldn't hold Andrej's jock.
 
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