Jessie Drain
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depends how the season plays outā¦ IMO we take another embarrassing loss TA move into the starting spot ā¦ likely for sharp
i know this will upset people (who love sharp) just going by the context cluesā¦ one being that sampson noted last week sharp was having some rough practicesā¦ sampson has noted uzan is vital, noted lj is his guy and has full unwavering trust in himā¦jojo is safe (none of those 3 are coming out) andā¦ and jwan isnt a secure but more than sharp
Sampson rotates the starting line up after every noteable loss if there are starter quality benchā¦ he is super superstitious and wont rotate it otherwise.
i note this as losing to anyone at home, or get beat badly away like 10+ to great teams, or losing at all to bad conference team even awayā¦
Iām thinking he starting having problems with the knee/leg before the Vegas trip.
Is it the same leg he had problems with last year?
Arceneaux had 9 rebounds
Mehā¦our starting lineup (save for injury replacement) has been pretty consistent for going on four years running now. Donāt know if I remember drastic changes there, except for maybe when Reggie Chaney replaced Brison Gresham the Final Four year. Sharp would probably have to fall off a cliff for TA to supplant him. Maybe Iām wrongā¦you are, as they say, the MAN!
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Do you think thereās any chance we could see this lineup?
- Uzan
- Cryer
- Sharp
- Arceneaux
- Tugler
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The E8 team moved around quite a bit but some of that was due to injury
Right, when Sasser went downā¦that put Taze Moore in thereā¦then I guess once Josh Carlton turned into a beast, Chaney lost his spot, tooā¦but my point is, itās been quite minimal.
becuase we havent had starter quality bench the last 3 yearsā¦
21- lost sasser and markā¦ we played ramon as our1st guard off the bench, he wasnt going to start
22- we had freshmen sharp and arcenueax as the 1st guards of the benchā¦ with sasser, shead and tramon startingā¦ the gap was too wide
23 - we lost terranceā¦ with mylik/ ramon and dunn the next guys - also noting we took almost no bad losses, @away at kansas is probably the only 1 that would count
we havent had starter quality bench since then
go back to the years when samspon was saying " we have 7 starters but we can onnly put 5 out"ā¦ we rotated who started after bad losses - think the dejonn, grimes, mills, sasser, hinton years, or before thatā¦
just on the court? 100% ā¦weāll 100% see that vs any small team we playā¦ if yoou mean starting? possible , but i wouldnt bet on it unless roberts just falls off the deep endā¦ his offense still suspect but his defense and rebounding actually improved alot in recent games, so i dont tihnk samp would bench him
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Yah looking back through old years on basketball reference itās definitely pretty rare. With that said two years when weāve seen the most change up with the starting five (2019-20 and 2021-22) came the season after we graduated a senior PG (GRob and Jarreau). So maybe it wouldnāt be that crazy to see more rotation than normal this year.
So far Sharp has been our best offensive player, by 3pt%, eFG%, TS%, PER, Points per 40, also has the best free throw rate of the guards, by a long way.
By metrics and counting stats, Sharp is well ahead of the pack.
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context of the shot mattersā¦ and that should be evident by the fact that mercy is ranked higher than LJ in PER
shooting only high percentage most open catch and shoot 3s doesnt make you the guys,
sharp is shooting an absurd 53% from 3ā¦if you told me he became drastically more aggressive on offense and went down to 40%ā¦ his per would go down but his impact would go up
sharp hasnt taken over any game this year, is most catch and shootā¦ and he has stat padded a few games this year, scoring in bunches after the game was decided (butler and ND as examples)ā¦ theres no way you are watching the film and think Sharp has been the #1 guy
So, are you saying the trend has been that we made a indefinite/permanent change to the starting lineup after 1 bad loss or just any change? Cuz Iām going back to since 2021 (four years) and outside Moore for Sasserās injury and Carlton for Chaney in 21-22, only one player (Walker-2) outside the five that normally started games that season started more than one game. TA may get a spot start, I guessā¦I donāt know if that qualifies as a lineup changeā¦Iām saying I donāt see any major changes to the lineup unless Sharp falls completely offā¦TA should still be your sixth man.
I guess we should clarify if you mean TA will eventually win Sharpās permanent spot for good because thatās been Sampsonās trend?
If you want my two cents as an outsider, itās not even close.
Sharp is a much better player than Cryer in nearly every way. Any advantage Cryer might have at the line or toeing up an open 3 is largely theoretical, and itās negated by the production and opportunities Sharp is going to actually produce.
My biggest question about this team offensively is the fact that Iām not so sure Sharp is best suited to be a high volume number 1 option. He has certainly done a fastastic job so far and thatās the role he is needed to play. But ideally, you would want him to be more of a number 2 where efficiency is a more of the goal and he can bring his skill set without the ball in his hands into play more.
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why is that your time frameā¦ even goin back just 1 year we were heavily rotating starters based on bad losses
my point heavily resides in having āstarter quality bench playersāā¦ you chose a time frame we did not have starter quality bench playersā¦
- true freshmen ramon was our 1st guard of the bench inn 2021ā¦
- 2022 freshmne sharp was the 1stt guard of the bench
- 2023 we took almost no bad losses and there was also no starter quality bench
we have his entire tenure here and oklahomaā¦ when ever sampson has felt we we have starter quality guys on the bench he has rotated them in after bad losses, and kept mix matching till about when it got close to the end off connference play
He has 39 2 point shots and 38 3s. He also gets to the line more than Uzan and LJ combined.
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our hall of fame coach disagreesā¦
also you once made a post that a bench players of yours was better than lj too but i thought was wild
my bad looked at the wrong column. LJ is 55 2s and 68 3s.
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