@justanotherfan said in RIP Texas Tech:
This one is easy to understand from the player perspective. Harder from the coaching perspective.
Looking at Burnett’s game log, his minutes were all over the place. Here’s his minutes in order by game on the season. 19, 20, 9, 19, 15, 30, 18, 21, 15, 18, 22, 6. That’s a player that has no idea what his role is supposed to be. That is an impossible way to develop as a freshman.
From the coaching side of things, maybe they saw something in practice. Hard to say. But either way, its a bad look. Either Beard misread his talent, or mismanaged him.
I’m not really so sure about not having any idea on role. If your looking at his minutes.
You look at this - - the 1st 4 games he averaged between 15-20 minutes in 4 out of the 5 games - -thats a pretty consistent fair amount of time in those. - -then he spiked a 30 minutes for one game - - then in the final 4 games he logged minutes he was seeing in between 15-21 minutes a game.
That’s a pretty dam good amount of minutes for a freshen - -actually quite a few minutes pretty consistent in those minutes. - -think it more Burnett then Beard - -he should of been able to figure out his role getting those types of consistent minutes
