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Lenny, which three games did Bailey start? The first three. Which games did Joey start? The last 31. Do you think Wojo just started Bailey for sh*ts and giggles? The plan was to start Bailey and have Joey come off the bench. Joey outplayed Bailey and took his starting spot. If Bailey had outplayed Joey, that starting lineup wasn't changing.You'll notice I'm saying "starting" not "play more minutes."
Do you think Markus didn't start the first 4 games as a freshman for "sh*ts and giggles"? Do you think Wojo planned to have Markus come off the bench that year? Or was he easing him in?
At least 2 of the games Bailey started were against cupcakes. Do you really think Wojo chucked his season's plans on that small a sample?
That would be the world's shortest leash - hard for me to believe.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Markus started the first game of his freshman year.Yes. It's not like he couldn't adjust later in the season if it didn't work.You can believe it or not but it is the truth. The plan was always to have Bailey start and have Joey come off the bench. That doesn't mean Bailey was better than Joey (he's wasn't). That doesn't mean Bailey was going to get more minutes than Joey (he probably wouldn't have). That meant that Joey and Sam together were redundant. They created elite shooting and solid rebounding but problems on defense and made the offense less diverse. The hope was that Bailey could be an athletic defensive stopper to compliment the rest of the starters. In reality, Bailey got stagefright, Joey was game ready, and Wojo adjusted as a good coach should. It worked really well until it didn't. It could be argued that Wojo should have adjusted back at the end of the season.
It worked out phenomenally. Brendan worked hard in the off-season knowing the team would need him all the more in Joey’s absence. The kid with the pouty attitude, slow feet, and high floor/low ceiling is gone and replaced by a bought-in young man who is smiling all the time, long and athletic, with a very high ceiling, who is just starting to hit his stride. Don’t be surprised if in a year , teams are game-planning to stop Brendan and an MU freshman has the kind of game Mr Bailey just had as a result of the focus on Markus.
Markus started the first game of his freshman year.You can believe it or not but it is the truth. The plan was always to have Bailey start and have Joey come off the bench.
Lenny, you can choose to believe that but you are incorrect. There was no injury. There was no reason to light a fire under any butts. The coaching staff thought that Bailey starting and Joey coming off the bench was going to give us the best chance to win. When it wasn't working they adjusted. Im nor sure why this is such an impossibility to you.
Yea. This coaching staff has been totally on point with their playing time decisions and starting lineup personnel. In fact on point is probably an understatement, Wojo has been brilliant in this department!
In 1925, a slumping Wally Pipp was replaced in the Yankees’ starting lineup by Lou Gehrig. In 1926, I wonder if some joe in the stands at a Yankees game told whoever would listen, “The plan last year, the plan you see, was to start Wally Pipp over Lou Gehrig!” If he did, I’m not sure why anyone would care or what point this joe was even trying to make. The better player ended up with more playing time. Maybe this joe was just trying to show off his insider knowledge or something. If that was his purpose, I hope someone pinned a star on him!
If only Wojo had your very large coaching brain at his disposal, Ners, we'd have won 8 of our first 7 games.I think your 64th "permanent" ban came after you spent weeks arguing that Wojo's game-tying play against Creighton was stoopid, and that anybody who pointed out that the play worked was even more stoopider.
Wojo couldn't dunk in high school.
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.
You really didn't need to give Ners the opening to re-litigate this for the 973rd time.
How many permabans does it take to get someone legitimately permanently banned?
Not to be the pessimist because I think Bailey will deliver more consistently this season but keep in mind that Bailey "flashed" during the road Georgetown game last season when Markus went down and then never delivered that level of performance again.
not an Amoroso-at-the-Great-Alaska-Shootout abberation.