I agree with you. Having watched the games to date to me he sees the court better than any of our guys. He's averaging almost 5 assists per game. Other than Reef at 4 per game no one else is much over 1 per game. If Pavs shooting picks up, he should be on the court 30 minutes per game.

Not sure I understand the reaction to Pavs at this point. I get he's a liability on defense, but so is Sheldon, and over the last two games -- the best two we've played -- Pavs went for 12.5 pts/10.5 assists/5.5 rebounds.

He's struggled shooting, but he's a much better career shooter than he's shown, so you would expect that to revert to the mean.

Ajay is an excellent shooter, but doesn't do much else. He's certainly not a plus defender -- on their careers, Pavs and Ajay basically have identical defensive win share numbers -- and doesn't move the ball nearly as well as Pavs.

Just don't see the argument that Paveletzke should be the 8th guy in our rotation. If you were giving his minutes to a strong defender, I'd understand it more. But giving the minutes to Sheldon doesn't solve your defensive problems at all, and makes you a worse rebounding team, too.

I like what you did here, but disagree on PAV. My god…he’s six games into his Bobcat career. Yes…he’s tiny. And it frustrates me when he drives into the lane and tries to scoop a dipsy-doo underhand shot between 6’9 guys….but he’s solid and nobody can complain about his numbers six games in.

And Boals mentioned after the last game that he has been nursing an injury and feeling better. I have no doubt his outside shooting will pick up as the season goes on.

I agree about limiting Elmore’s minutes. Looking forward to Reef getting back and Elmore coming off the bench.

I am legitimately perplexed by the number of people on here who are acting like PAV is “The Whiz” of point guards. Really makes no sense to me.

I am with ya El Gato Roberto

+1,000,000

This 100% will not happen.

The Pav hate is absolutely baffling after the last two games he’s had.

Watched the first two on TV and spent the last few days in Myrtle watching the games court side which, as you were able to observe watching on TV, were unobstructed and allowed view of the whole court. Now I'm not going to get into a back and forth on the kid, nor continually question him or drag him through the mud. Some posters did that last year with IJ and Wiz and these kids don't deserve that from us. So I'll leave it at this post:

He was constantly beat off the dribble and had difficulty beating his defender with the dribble. Someone said he was getting over an injury so maybe he was a step slow due to that – if not he will have struggles in the MAC that tends to have quick point guards (or Mitchell guards the point). The ball was getting stalled in his hands – too much dribbling – and his handle was not what one expects from a point guard – fumbled the ball a number of times especially going laterally to his right. As noted previously, he gets caught in the lane with no escape resorting to an up and under, a hot potato pass to a teammate, or straight turnover. I see his stats, but point guard also means possession guard and beyond the turnover line he also led to lost possessions through the excessive dribbling and forcing teammates into rushed shots or getting the ball out of position.

Elliot showed skills and will start to get time. Mitchell coming back will obviously get minutes reallocated, and, accordingly to folks associated with the program, will be getting minutes at the point as well. Hope some of my observations are him still getting acclimate to new teammates – pg is like qb – chemistry can take time - and/or he felt he had to do more with Mitchell out. We will see.

Rotations and playing time will continue to get refined prior to MAC play. I trust Boals to figure it out. Team seems to have good chemistry and getting the win Friday made for a much more fun day on Saturday of putt-putt and Calabash fish eating in Dirty Myrtle. 3.5 point favorite vs. Texas St – hopefully they can close out the tournament 2 and 1.

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