so I seem to have forgotten about a promised start to my frosh PF...6 games off the bench before he pointed it out. Probably no recovery, so should I start him or forget it?

Well, in your case I'd sit him and beg him to transfer. 26 LP on a big? His ath aint to bad, and his reb is acceptable if he has high potential there, but you can find someone a lot better. If he was a better player then I'd say start him and you'd keep him + he'd regain his WE at the end of the season.




Why would you offer him a start?

I have to agree with furry. It absolutely makes no sense to offer the worst big on your team a start when he wouldn't even start on my DIII team.

he has good potential:

Joseph Wright:
athleticism: big upside
ball handling: limited upside
durability: big upside
perimeter shooting: big upside
rebounding: big upside
shot blocking: big upside
stamina: big upside
ft shooting: big upside

Frasier can score inside. Promised the start because I spent 90% of my budget chasing a pull down SF that someone else signed, wanted to get at least one recruit (and was in a battle for Wright) so offered the start to seal the deal.

I plan to watch his performance, and if it is hurting the team I'll go to target minutes at lowest setting for him instead of fatigue...just was wondering if I do start him if there was time to make it right by the end of the season, and furry has answered that.

I'd never go target minutes while running the press - even if its a combo. Never. Just start him, give him little to no distro and sub him out at FF while his back up is set to tired. He will probably play 20 mpg or so, but shouldn't hurt you to much. Almost every season I'll start 1 or 2 FR just so I can have some starting level players come in off the bench. You can bench him again come CT time, but make sure his WE is back up to normal before you do. After practices stop, so does having to live up to promises.




At the end of the season he will e mail you and say thanks and that he'd knew you could make it right or whatever. His WE will go back up to where it was. His potential isn't bad if you just need an athletic rebounder who can play solid def. IMO, I don't think you needed to give him the promise. If you sign him with it, I think you could have signed him without it. Its worth about 1 home visit at best.

I am pretty sure that if he starts the rest of the season he will stay and recover most of the WE he lost. I have seen players that didn't start 7 games when promised starts, and they came back.