I'm not talking about who he plays, but when he plays them and for how long. He will tighten up the rotation and get a better sense of player roles, it is a gradual process though its not like we are going to see February's rotation on Saturday. The Colon example is poor, throughout the season WHEN Luis got his minutes significantly changed. It wasn't uncommon for him to get no more than 5 second half minutes. Energy also lost a lot of minutes after the game at Missouri. There were games when he didn't see the floor at all when he started some games in the non-con.
i don't see how to link the graph itself. have to go to the page. uncheck the other stats to clarify the graph.
http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/player/kansas-state/chris-merriewether/game_statshttp://statsheet.com/mcb/players/player/kansas-state/luis-colon/game_statsfor colon, i don't see any pattern of changing use. with merriewether, it looks like less variance in mpg later in the season, and fewer games with very high (for him) mpg.
there's no data for game situations when players played, just off memory, i recall colon's role as unchanged, start games, start 2nd half. play 3-5 minutes then come out. come back in, for another 3-5 minute bout later in each half.
merriewether, i don't recall as well, if he has such a defined role, i don't think i noticed it. i do, of course, recall him figuring prominently in end of game situs late in the season.
i guess i do agree that martin will begin to establish more defined roles for some players, and mpgs of a few players may become slightly more consistent. i strongly disagree however, with the idea that there will be a dramatic change in player minutes, variance in player seeing the court, that early season rotations are wildly different than later season rotations, and that rotations to date have had much of an impact on performance to date.
basically the idea that kstate has played less well than they could have because martin assigns player minutes differently early in the season vs later in the season.
