Lol.. would love to hear what you think of Gopher players. Conference numbers...
6'6" wing Peter Jok in B1G play... 110 ORtg, 21% usage
6'5" wing Carlos Morris in B1G... 95 and 24%
Anthony Clemmons.. 100 ORtg, 15% usage, 23% turnover rate in B1G
DeAndre Mathieu... 84, 18%, 26%
You can compare Woodbury (117 ORtg, 21% usage) and Olaseni (115, 27%) and claim Olaseni is markedly better...
...wonder what you think of Walker (101 ORtg, 21% usage, 23% turnover %) vs. Eliason (107, 16%, 12%)
sigh.
Couple of things:
- Didn't realize Woodbury's conference numbers were so much better than his overall numbers. Over the course of the full season Olaseni's are much better. Of course, at this point the conference numbers may well tell a better story.
- Similar with Peter Jok and in fact I'd be less likely to dismiss his as being a small sample size as he's played significantly less in his career than Woodbury has. Perhaps Jok has just become better.
- Clemmons's numbers are not good. 23% turnover is bad and I notice you rounded up from 99.3 to 100 on his ORtg. This is in no way affected by Mathieu or Morris. They're also not good in conference.
- Similarly, Eliason and Walker are also decidedly average to mediocre. But it's not like there's some zero-sum game where Minnesota not having quality depth results in Iowa having quality depth. The difference is that Pitino doesn't have other good options (despite the typical message board belief that backup players who don't get playing time are the obvious answer.) Again, my point was that Fran plays a lot of players so it gives the illusion of depth. He's playing bad players because he wants to, Pitino is playing them because he has to.
- You don't mention Uhl (82 ORtg in conf, 27% minutes) or Oglesby (91/53).
So basically, even if you just look at conf only numbers, a strong case can me made for Uhl and Oglesby playing much less. Clemmons likely has to play just because you can't play less than 2 guards more than 5 mins per game.
Now you have a regular rotation for a normal coach.
G: Gessell, Jok, Clemmons: Start Gesell and Jok. 32 mins for Gessell, 28 for Jok, and 20 for Clemmons
F: White, Uthoff, Woodbury, Olaseni. 36 mins for White, 32 mins for Olaseni, 28 minutes for Uthoff, and 24 for Woodbury.
That looks like pretty decent rotation with some obvious weakness at the guard position.
In other words, they're no deeper than anyone else.