Ndour sits about 12 minutes of the 1st half because he has two fouls. He ends up with 2. Some similar scenarios in earlier games. Christian has to let him learn how to play with a couple fouls.
As goes Mo, so goes OHIO.
he he did learn to play with 2 fouls. The entire second half. Situationally the move makes sense. A game called inconsistently as last night's game is no place for someone as valuable as Mo. It was more important to get playing time for others in this situation.
To the point of Campbell's playing time, I too wish he had played more but I think it would have been more detrimental than useful. He is in much better shape now and has some confidence. I think early prolonged exposure could have been hard on the confidence factor. I feel like JC has managed the bench very well and will pay off in the end.
go cats.
Understand your reasoning, but disagree.
No he didn't learn to play with 2 fouls, he sat more than half the game.There's now way we're going to lose that game against Ball. We played our D- game, at least in the 1st half, and still won by 20. A great time to give Ndour an opportunity to learn to play with 2 fouls rather than sit most of the 1st half and much of second. Ended up playing only 19 minutes. We need him playing 30+ minutes.
Same scenario against 'Kron where he sat the last 9+ minutes of 1st half with 2 fouls. Only ended up playing 33 of 50 minutes. Maybe a different outcome if Mo plays more?
An aside: I will never forget Al McGuire's decision to play Bo Ellis after committing 2 quick fouls at the outset of the national championship game against N. Carolina which they won. Bo played most of game with 4 fouls. Al stuck with him the entire game. He never fouled out and he played the entire game.
Last Edited: 1/16/2014 3:54:39 PM by stub