Practice, we talking about practice?!

[StillWarriors]

Buzz's recruiting method invites PT problems. Next year will be even worse as he will have more players of roughly the same ability and all will be deserving of PT-----but there are only 200 mpg and divided by a rotation of 13 that leaves about 15 mpg for each. There will be some unhappy campers

On the otherhand Al McGuire recruited for a rotation of just 8 which left 25 mpg for each (the other 5 were on his development/practice squad). PT availability was the key to Al's being able to recruit the quality he did.

Given all we've seen with injuries, transfers etc...., there's no way I'm going to worry about having too much talent on our roster. We'll just see how it plays out. Might we lose someone to a transfer here and there if the roster is loaded, I suppose so. I'd rather take my chances on that though then intentionally thinning the talent level. I'd say bring in as much talent as you can, and the cream will rise to the top and dictate how the minutes get allocated.

[muwarrior87]

Given all we've seen with injuries, transfers etc...., there's no way I'm going to worry about having too much talent on our roster. We'll just see how it plays out. Might we lose someone to a transfer here and there if the roster is loaded, I suppose so. I'd rather take my chances on that though then intentionally thinning the talent level. I'd say bring in as much talent as you can, and the cream will rise to the top and dictate how the minutes get allocated.

Agreed. We've had major injuries each of the last few seasons.  That could mean a rotation cut down to 10-11 players. Finding 15-25 minutes for each, depending on how they're developing and practicing, and it's a lot more important to get the talent in case of these injuries. I doubt many people thought Cubillan would log major minutes at the point this year before Cadougan got hurt.

[Doctor V]

Agreed. We've had major injuries each of the last few seasons.  That could mean a rotation cut down to 10-11 players. Finding 15-25 minutes for each, depending on how they're developing and practicing, and it's a lot more important to get the talent in case of these injuries. I doubt many people thought Cubillan would log major minutes at the point this year before Cadougan got hurt.

when you are a program like marquette, you always take elite talent if you can get it even at a similar position, IMO. from that point on it is the coachs job, and not an easy one, to keep his team balanced and his players happy, and to decide who deserves to play the most and who the least.

that said, i personally dont think frozena deserves to play more than williams. again i know buzz is trying to prove a point, i just dont think embarassing a kid is the way to do it. EWill was the only kid that stuck with Buzz post miami beach's exit, hes been committed to buzz and the program for 3 yrs now, and by all accounts seems like a nice kid. I think you have to show the kid some appreciation and respect even if hes coming along slowly, assuming he has not been disrespectful to you

for the future, i think one of buzz's biggest challenges will be his distribution of minutes and i think he needs to work on that if he wants to continue his recruiting success. dont get me wrong, to this point is seems that all of his players love him as a guy and love playing for him, but if hes got 10 guys that are top 100 type talents and he gets stuck in a rotation of 6-7 players and the others get 5-10 mins a game, future recruits may look at that and think twice...

also, saying we need to put guys on the court that can help us win in january and in orlando is fairly unnecessary, especially when frozena steps on the court

ps- is anyone else annoyed by the borderline obsession big robert gets? people are gonna rip me as heartless, but dont get me wrong i like the guy too and love when he gets to play cause he works his behind off, but its a little over the top and prob makes the kid more nervous than a guy trying to win a game at the freethrow line

[savwa]

I agree, players like Otule and E.Williams should get more PT in garbage time if nothing else just for experience so they have something to reflect on when the BE season starts.  I can understand people saying that putting Otule out there when the other team doesn't have a 7footer for him to guard is a bad match up for him defensively but the flipside is he should be able to get some easy buckets working on the offensive side when MU has the ball.  Maybe some work in game time situations albeit against smaller defenders will give him some confidence and should definitely give him time to develop his post game.  If the bigs don't get PT they will always be big stiffs and you'll never know if they could be any good.