The House of Blue

It is no surprise to me. I have said all along that Polson, and Hood, would be very valuable pieces to this team if they were only given an opportunity. All they need is minutes.

I agree with you mr, he has done this time and time again. Its almost less normal when he doesn't give us a spark.

And Polson knows that no matter what he does this season, no matter how hard he works, it's back to the bench next year with the influx of great guard play.

Jarrod Polson has been the third most efficient player on this UK team all season, behind Noel and Cauley-Stein. He started the season strong in the Maryland game, and he has contributed without hurting the team in his 280 minutes thus far. He has ended less than 3% of the team's total possessions with an Adjusted Individual offensive efficiency of 1.299 ppp. Compare that to Goodwin, who has ended nearly 21% of UK's total possessions with an efficiency of 0.921 ppp. I would love to see Polson with more minutes and more possession ending plays, and less for Goodwin, say insteat of 3-21 between them, perhaps 9-15 between them, without changin the distribution to any of the other players.

On defensive, Polson has had an average defensive efficiency of 0.913 ppp while Goodwin's has been 0.890 ppp, which illustrates Goodwin's greatest value to this team when he is on the floor. Compare those to Noel at 0.768 ppp and Cauley-Stein at 0.866 ppp, the two best defenders on this team.

With all that said, when Jarrod Polson is a UK team's 3rd most efficient player, that speaks more to the relative weakness of this team than it does the brillance of Polson's play, and I intend no slight to Jarrod Polson's play or contributions to this team, which have been outstanding.