🙄 No Holds Barred Thread - A Haney/DavetheWave Production

[MaineWahoo]

@norfolk_hoo

I think it’s telling that there are only two guys on that list that aren’t point guards. I am likely overreacting to this year but I think a more in-depth analysis may be useful

This may not be as in depth as you’re hoping for, but I pulled this together a few weeks ago. Here’s the link to the post and I’ll recopy the image below.

1st Years & Playing Time

Somebody may have already done this, but I threw this together. Basically shows minutes played in first year, then total minutes played for the rest of the player’s career after their first year and minutes played per completed season after their first year. Obviously a little rough, but I thought slightly interesting. Players whose first year came after a redshirt are italicized. I left off guys who are so early in their careers it’d skew the numbers (Reece, Shedrick, McCorkle) [UVA Player Mi…

And basically my take away from it was that if you’re a guard who is going to be good at UVA, you will earn at least some meaningful playing time your first year. The only real exception was Devon Hall. Now of course circumstance and roster composition affect this and the sample size isn’t huge, but the Bennett era is not filled with guards who were quiet their first years and then went on to great things. Kind of seems like you either got it, or you don’t, and we can see it pretty quickly. Bigs are obviously more complicated.