Riley Kugel was sick: Thats why he didnt play much

Thanks. I didn't think it was his performance. Must have tried to give it a go but didn't have anything in the tank.

 

I said that I believed that would be the case in the insider. Just made sense.

 

I had the flu a month ago and I felt like I was dying. Drove myself to the ER and I NEVER go to the ER. The last previous time I went to the ER I had and emergency appendictomy. but I had the Influenza B. Was far worse than the two times I had covid.
Go RILEY!! Get well soon!

 

Get better Riley! (For the Bama rematch.)

 

But I read in multiple threads that he got pulled for lack of effort and a bad attitude…

 

I would move Aberdeen into the rotation over Riley.

 

Why?

 

Aberdeen is PG and Riley is a combo SG/SF.

We essentially play three guards as our starting line up (Clayton, Richard, Pullin). Subbing in Riley for Richard or Clayton makes sense. Subbing in Aberdeen for either of those guys doesn't make sense to me. Aberdeen to give Pullin a break does but Riley for Pullin makes no sense unless you want Clayton to run point.

 

I definitely wouldn't. He's shooting 23% from 3 and aside from the Baylor game, he's shooting 17% from 3.

 

I couldn’t figure out why he got pulled, bc there didn’t seem anything egregious. So, I went back and watched his segment. He was totally disengaged… didn’t get off his feet for rebounds; didn’t get on the floor for a loose ball. Those actions… or inactions… make more sense if he was sick. He just didn’t seem to have anything; didn’t seem in it whatsoever.

 

We don’t have enough of a sample size from Denzel to know how he will do, but I like his handle, I like that he can score at the rim, I like the form on his shot, and he looks solid to me on defense. We do have a large sample size on Riley. Looking at Riley’s advanced stats, here is how he stacks up in our 8-man rotation:

True Shooting % - 8th
Effective FG% - 8th
Turnover % - 7th
Offensive Win Shares - 8th
Defensive Win Shares - 7th
Win Shares - 8th
Win Shared per 40 Minutes - 8th
Offensive Box Plus/Minus - 8th
Defensive Box Plus/Minus - 7th
Box Plus/Minus - 8th

It’s pretty apparent that Riley is playing the worst of everyone in the rotation. However, he is better than Denzel in most of these categories, although Denzel is 2nd behind Zyon in Turnover %. I would give Denzel a shot to see what he can do.

 

Aberdeen is a big and strong kid. There is no reason that he can’t sub in for any of the 3 starting guards.

 

I don't know . . . Kugel's play has been consistently egregoaus throughout the season.

 

I like Aberdeen a lot. At this point, however, Riley can have much more impact on a game than Denzel when he is clicking. Riley can give you 25 points on any given night. I don't think Denzel is quite there yet.

 

is Kugel well?

 

I’m assuming GC doesn’t have a built-in spell check, LOL.

 

I like to give Brent a hard time every now and then . Truth is, he probably posts from his phone quite often, which means that spelling is optional.