A lot of items are being placed at the feet of the coaching staff in terms of recruiting talent, lack of depth, Mawot Mag being injured but it's simply not the case.
Here are you starting B1G Point Guards and their PPG averages for the season.
13.4 INDIANA
11.3 NEBRASKA
10.0 PURDUE
9.8 MINNESOTA
8.3 MICHIGAN
16.3 MARYLAND
10.0 ILLINOIS
18 PSU
12.6 MSU
17.2 NW
10.0 OSU
12.4 IOWA
12.2 WISC
8.2 RUTGERS
I would say 8.2 is probably not the standard, but the difference between 8.2 and 12 PPG is an enormous gap in scoring in conference games.
So I just figured I know the guard play impacts the offense and RU was fine through the MSG game at MSU
Mulcahy accumulated 128 points in 1st 12 B1G games. 16 points at Purdue, 15 vs Maryland, 12 at Northwestern, 12 at MSU, 11 vs PSU at the RAC, 11 at Iowa....not all wins obviously, but games were Mulcahy was in the league average of PG production.
The last 8 games, have not been ideal, for any starting player, in any lineup, but it impacts everything, when it is your starting PG
45 points in last 8 B1G games is 5.625 PPG. RU is 2-6 obviously in the last 8 games.
Could RU easily have been 3-5 with Minnesota in the win column?? Sure, but I could easily offset that RU had no business winning at Wisconsin without Caleb playing and certainly no legitimate chance down 19 early in the 2nd half at PSU.
5.6 PPG from any starting PG is not going to win many games. It's beyond just scoring, any player can hit a shooting slump, but the overall play is so severely below B1G PG standards, that your offense is going to completely unravel.
5.6 is 3 to 4 PPG below Minnesota and their PG. If I take a closer look at Michigan's PG, Dug McDaniel in all B1G games, he is at 10 PPG.
We can discuss a bunch of items, but leaping past this wide of a gap from our PG play, vs what may be far and away the least productive PG in terms of PPG in all of the B1G, is a open and easy way to bring things to a point.
We have no real options to remedy this for the Michigan game and it's not solving everything. But the team needs a guard that can at least reach the 13th best production out of 14 teams, if we are going to remotely compete in any game.
Here are you starting B1G Point Guards and their PPG averages for the season.
13.4 INDIANA
11.3 NEBRASKA
10.0 PURDUE
9.8 MINNESOTA
8.3 MICHIGAN
16.3 MARYLAND
10.0 ILLINOIS
18 PSU
12.6 MSU
17.2 NW
10.0 OSU
12.4 IOWA
12.2 WISC
8.2 RUTGERS
I would say 8.2 is probably not the standard, but the difference between 8.2 and 12 PPG is an enormous gap in scoring in conference games.
So I just figured I know the guard play impacts the offense and RU was fine through the MSG game at MSU
Mulcahy accumulated 128 points in 1st 12 B1G games. 16 points at Purdue, 15 vs Maryland, 12 at Northwestern, 12 at MSU, 11 vs PSU at the RAC, 11 at Iowa....not all wins obviously, but games were Mulcahy was in the league average of PG production.
The last 8 games, have not been ideal, for any starting player, in any lineup, but it impacts everything, when it is your starting PG
45 points in last 8 B1G games is 5.625 PPG. RU is 2-6 obviously in the last 8 games.
Could RU easily have been 3-5 with Minnesota in the win column?? Sure, but I could easily offset that RU had no business winning at Wisconsin without Caleb playing and certainly no legitimate chance down 19 early in the 2nd half at PSU.
5.6 PPG from any starting PG is not going to win many games. It's beyond just scoring, any player can hit a shooting slump, but the overall play is so severely below B1G PG standards, that your offense is going to completely unravel.
5.6 is 3 to 4 PPG below Minnesota and their PG. If I take a closer look at Michigan's PG, Dug McDaniel in all B1G games, he is at 10 PPG.
We can discuss a bunch of items, but leaping past this wide of a gap from our PG play, vs what may be far and away the least productive PG in terms of PPG in all of the B1G, is a open and easy way to bring things to a point.
We have no real options to remedy this for the Michigan game and it's not solving everything. But the team needs a guard that can at least reach the 13th best production out of 14 teams, if we are going to remotely compete in any game.
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