Looking at Ighoefe’s page on the Sports Reference website to see if there is any justification for the bashing you guys keep laying on this kid. Unless its stats are in error I do not get your criticism. I may add that unless I was not paying attention carefully enough, I think some of your commentary on Ighoefe has been just short of hyperbole.
After the second darn game of the season one of you actually posed to Ewing the question of Ighoefe’s worthiness based on his having the worst plus-minus results of the Navy game. That was not only a disservice to Ighoefe (that stat did not tell the entire picture of his performance) it came across as a direct attack on Ewing’s intelligence as if he wasn’t properly gauging the worthiness of his player as well as you.
On your podcast you openly wished for Q to stay out of foul trouble for the very purpose of Ighoefe not getting as much playing time. A very eye-catching take considering how you are simultaneously craving reduction of minutes of the starters in general in order for other dudes to get court time.
Now you are salivating at the mouth over the idea of a small ball lineup, but only when Wahab is off the floor. This too keeps Ighoefe on the bench as much as possible.
It is as if the root of what ails the team, and what gnaws at you the most, are minutes given to Ighoefe.
I think more context us needed. Take the whole turnover rate numbers. According to Sports Reference Ighoefe has committed four turnovers in three games. Even in non-starter’s minutes that is not awful for a young big. Furthermore it is not that terrible when you consider Iggy has only turned it over once in his last two games. Three of his season’s four turnovers came in game one when admittedly he did look all sorts of lost. Those Turnovers weren’t the throwing bad passes or dribbling off the feet variety. They were the picking up a charge on a post move or setting an illegal screen variety.
From my vantage point he looked too wound up in that season opener but he has begun to settle down. He picked up zero fouls and turnovers in game 2. His initial non-dunk shot attempts were awful flicks that did not even touch the rim while his most recent ones were either close misses or made baskets.
The fouling issue is still a concern but he is a key contributor on the boards and he is also the best in-the-paint defender on the team. I do not get the rush to throw him overboard.
Looking at Ighoefe’s page on the Sports Reference website to see if there is any justification for the bashing you guys keep laying on this kid. Unless its stats are in error I do not get your criticism. I may add that unless I was not paying attention carefully enough, I think some of your commentary on Ighoefe has been just short of hyperbole.
After the second darn game of the season one of you actually posed to Ewing the question of Ighoefe’s worthiness based on his having the worst plus-minus results of the Navy game. That was not only a disservice to Ighoefe (that stat did not tell the entire picture of his performance) it came across as a direct attack on Ewing’s intelligence as if he wasn’t properly gauging the worthiness of his player as well as you.
On your podcast you openly wished for Q to stay out of foul trouble for the very purpose of Ighoefe not getting as much playing time. A very eye-catching take considering how you are simultaneously craving reduction of minutes of the starters in general in order for other dudes to get court time.
Now you are salivating at the mouth over the idea of a small ball lineup, but only when Wahab is off the floor. This too keeps Ighoefe on the bench as much as possible.
It is as if the root of what ails the team, and what gnaws at you the most, are minutes given to Ighoefe.
I think more context us needed. Take the whole turnover rate numbers. According to Sports Reference Ighoefe has committed four turnovers in three games. Even in non-starter’s minutes that is not awful for a young big. Furthermore it is not that terrible when you consider Iggy has only turned it over once in his last two games. Three of his season’s four turnovers came in game one when admittedly he did look all sorts of lost. Those Turnovers weren’t the throwing bad passes or dribbling off the feet variety. They were the picking up a charge on a post move or setting an illegal screen variety.
From my vantage point he looked too wound up in that season opener but he has begun to settle down. He picked up zero fouls and turnovers in game 2. His initial non-dunk shot attempts were awful flicks that did not even touch the rim while his most recent ones were either close misses or made baskets.
The fouling issue is still a concern but he is a key contributor on the boards and he is also the best in-the-paint defender on the team. I do not get the rush to throw him overboard.