Boals clearly does not want to play Evans, but we are getting to the point where he has no choice. I can't wait to see how this develops.

Thought about Sheldon....but take away the Memphis game...and it feels like he's shooting 11% this year from 3-point land.

Sheldon is 21-61 34.4% from 3 this year. He was 6-10 against Memphis, leaving him 15-51 29.4% from 3 outside that game.

For his career he's:
2022-23, 7-23
2023-24, 38-82
2024-25, 21-61

Total, 66-166 39.8%

So he's definitely 5-10% below his career norms this year.

We could certainly use another guy in addition to AJB to step up from 3 with Elmore gone and Pavs not a threat for those games when Clayton is off.

Is everyone on the drugs today?

How is this piling on a player? Stats don’t lie. Just like stats didn’t lie with BRod the last two years of his career. Sheldon has been horrible this year as a 3 point shooter. Dude is a competitor and he would even tell you he’s been awful from 3 this year. Hopefully, he can get his stroke back.

It amazes me how sensitive so many people on this board are.

Here's some clarity for you. Players don't produce the same statistical percentages each game throughout a season. They have good games, they have bad games. The purpose of season stats is to show a player's statistical averages over all the games that season, same thing for career stats. It seems ridiculous to me to produce stats that remove particular games from an analysis, good games or bad games, to make a point about a players performance on the year. Sheldon is shooting 3s at a percentage 5.4% less than his career percentage according to the info you provided (trust you, I didn't look them up), to say that his shooting is anywhere near 10% less than his career is stat-picking. Would it be a good argument if I went back and removed all his bad shooting games from an analysis and claim he's X% range better? No. As Fear said, stats don't lie. So when talking about a season, or a career, why not use the season or career stats and not pick the games you want to include?

To be fair, in my response to your post I missed that you were replying specifically to Fears post about taking away the Memphis game, my bad. But on your own you claimed he "definitely" was shooting up to 10% below his career norms this year and that is statistically ridiculous unless you are stat-picking. That is adding 4.6% to his statistical decrease, and if anyone thinks that is a small number and I'm being "sensitive," that career percentage difference on three point shooting is enormous.

And for shooting vs making, my point was purely from watching Sheldon shoot the ball. Balance, release, follow through, rotation, the dude is a shooter.

+1

You all know I have been a big Sheldon supporter, but his outside shooting has been a huge disappointment this year. If he was shooting it at the rate he did last season it would likely make a huge difference in our results this season. Several misses were wide open and the type of shot that you knew was going in last year. Ajay would himself would tell you it has been a disappointment and wouldn't be upset by the information shared and points made.

I've noticed the same.

I'm much more confident that Sheldon can re-find his stroke from 3 and make up for EJ4s production than I am that a combination of Searls/Evans can make up for a guy performing at a 2nd team All-MAC level.

The only guy we could afford to lose less than Hadaway is Clayton.

If he's out for an extended time I also think we're going to struggle.

Could turn home games against Kent and Appy St and road BG game from Ws to Ls.

Yes, that's my perception, too. As I said in another post, it appears to me that our talent level is higher than what you would think looking at the results on the court. Or, the whole is less than the sum of its parts. I know that's very subjective, but that's the way it looks to me.

For this reason alone should be enough to give Evans more run. I don't get it. There's no 33% rule on redshirting in basketball. At this point what do you have to lose? Getting zero minutes again Akron and only two against Ball State after getting 33 minutes total in the previous three games is so weird. What is Boals waiting for? At the very least he's a body to spell Clayton and Searls some minutes and someone taller than 6'5" who can rebound.