I thought he made some valid points.
I love most everything about Denis, but I can admit his shot selection drives me up a wall sometimes.
You can't make valid points when your stats were wrong.
For starters, Clemente shoots less than he did last year:
http://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Kansas%20St.&y=2009http://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Kansas%20St.&y=2010Also, these two lines combine to make Kitchen look like a complete idiot:
The only way to fully prove this would be to figure the actual number of offensive rebounds gathered off Clemente’s misses and compare it to the number of offensive boards resulting from other players’ missed attempts. Without knowing, I bet the percentage favors other players’ misses.
In other words, I don't have any stats, but I can guess other players misses are rebounded more.
This is also a brutal, mainly because he claims to be using "statistics":
Faced with statistics, it is a difference in opinion, and Martin’s obviously is the more important one compared to all others. He has no problem with the shot selection. Or, at least he feels a greater percentage of the shots taken are “good” shots.
The coach also has stated that Denis does a good job of taking care of the basketball, pointing to the increased assist/turnover ratio. The assists are up, I agree, but not by a huge margin. The turnovers...well, I guess the wry response is it's hard to turn over the ball when you're shooting it more often.
His turnover rate went from 19.5% to 13.5%. His shot % went from 28.9% to 27.3%.
In short, Kitchen is an idiot.