Sooners quartet needs help from teammates

[Sooner23]

 

[152219]

You can safely add 5 minutes per game to that and possibly 10. Pledger plays the 6th highest minutes in the conference. He is top 7 or above in each of the following categories: scoring, shooting percentage, 3 point shots made, 3 point shooting percentage and free throw percentage.

The conference lists top 14 in steals at 28. Four guys are tied at this number. Pledger has 23 steals on the season so he is not far from making this top list too.

He averages 4 rebounds a game making him the fourth leading rebounder on OU's team but he is third in offensive rebounds. I would suspect (but I don't know this as a fact) that 4 a game compares nicely with other backcourt players. He has less turn overs than both Grooms and Blair. Pledger has 42 turn overs. Osby has 38 and Clark has 37. They have played less minutes and handle the ball less.

Gary is simply wrong.

You misconstrued what I meant...Gary said Pledger could be averaging 15 minutes less/game next year (meaning, he would average less than 20 minutes/game). No chance that happens IMO...he is playing close to 30 minutes/game again next year. May be best if he is down to 28 or so, but his playing time won't drop 15 minutes/game.

 

[vbdad]

Pledger is a great shooter. A bad ballhandler and defender. He will play a bunch of minutes again next year. He is one of our better players but he does have limitations. Who else would we play? Neal is afraid, Blair is clueless and Clark is in lala land. I hope one of the freshman can play a bunch off the bench next year and M'Baye will be the three next year.