Guard Stats from WVU Game

Sosa: 6 assists, 3 turnovers, 2.00 assist to turnover ratio.
Siva: 1 assist, 3 turnovers, 0.33 assist to turnover ratio.

Don’t let Siva’s good shooting today cloud your judgement. While Siva looks much more natural on the court at the 1 than Sosa, and is certainly flashier, he just doesn’t have the experience yet, and he makes a lot of freshmen mistakes when he gets rushed. I don’t know that we want to see what he tries to do late in a close game, because it wouldn’t necessarily be good. He will one day be a better point guard than Sosa, but I don’t think that today is that day.

But hey, I guess you know better than Pitino, what with all your D1 head coaching experience. His hall of fame resume and championship ring probably agree with you, if that makes you feel better.

…are you related to Edgar Sosa. Your response dripped with sarcasm and condescention. Not sure where that came from as RealisticCardsFan was simply crunching numbers to come up with a possible justification for playing Siva more. No where did I read that he thought he was better than Pitino. I personally think Edgar is also very erratic and unpredicable. Just because he is a senior does not mean he will make better decisions than a freshman at crunch time.

I like Siva’s play better, and I think despite his inexperience his upside is higher and his downside is nowhere near as low as Bad Sosa’s. But Sosa is still an asset and they way those two boys like to foul there are more than enough minutes for both of them. You might recall being gripped with fear when they both were riding pine and Knowles and jerry were leading the charge. I mean, until Knowles and Smith somehow managed to extend our lead while the S’s were benchbound. No need to dicker over the matter – they both need PT. What this team really needs to to catch a freaking break. Probably this string of bad officiating in games wouldn’t seem so outrageous if we were getting our share of those bad calls as God intended. But lately it seems, especially in crunch time, that we’ve been on the shit end of 100% of those calls. The optimist in me says: This is OK, plenty of season left for the basketball gods to balance the ledger. The less optimistic part of me thinks we’re making up for some bad karma somewhere along the line.

Lets just look at the scoreboard. This isn’t a scientific formula, Sosa starts the game UofL gets down by 13. Siva enters and the two trade off time all throgh the middle of the game but UofL gets lead. UofL is up not sure of the margin but with around 5:00 left Siva is replaced by Sosa and UofL ends up losing the game. The offense looked lost in that last 5 minutes regardless of the zone. Sosa is predictable with the ball in his hands, Siva can do more, tries to probe defenses and pass to different positions. I think the NBA has some kind of formula that shows the productivity of the minutes a player spends on the court, and the teams total points scored vs. the oppositions points scored. Sosa was around a -20 I bet, Siva a +20. This isn’t a comparison of two PF’s this is a comparison of the PG the person who gets the teams offense going. Sosa’s stats seem pretty good, but the team didn’t flow and score as much with him in the game. Siva made some turnovers but the offense just seemed to click better.