When you take over a program that won 2 games you have to quickly evaluate who can help and who can harm what you’re trying to build and quickly cut your losses.
Listen I don’t think the staff is beyond criticism but after 3 years I think they have a pretty good idea of what Watson is.
Only we could take a player that earned the nickname Mel Mel the Abuser in Rucker Park and decide he needs to be called Tinman
You are correct. He signed up to play for Prohm and had no interest in playing for TJ.
When you have a team that doesn’t break 40 in a game, his fat ass probably helps.
I always joked about Kenny's rather ample ass, but he knew how to use it as an asset. If he was posting up he knew exactly how to use his girth to disrupt a player at the moment right before he made his move. This often got even bigger players a split second slow in following his move rather it was a drive, spin or going up for the shot. Just being able to get your shoulder in front of the defender can often be the difference between getting the shot off cleanly versus blocked or drawing the foul versus a clean block.
So he decided to practice until Novemebr first before deciding he didn't want any part of TJ?
For the record, the NET doesn't use scoring margin. I only clarify because a friend who follows college basketball less closely than me pointed that out earlier this season. One of the two components of the NET is an adjusted net efficiency rating—which is often going to be upstream of scoring margin—so your concern is still legitimate, as Otz's staff clearly sticks with the regular rotation until the very end of "buy" games in order to boost the team's efficiency rating as much as possible. I recognize you may know this and were using shorthand regarding analytics, but, again, since I was previously mistaken, I thought I'd comment
Fair but I also think TJ is stubborn on his rotations and largely refuses to play 8 or more. There were definitely games we could have and should have used Watson more for defense but didn’t.
