bird_call wrote:Eye of the Jay wrote: He will play and play quite a bit. If he's a guy who wants to be the star of his team and log 30+ min per game then CU isn't for him. He will get a solid 20-25 minutes per game and more if he proves himself in the system.
Publicly, Frankamp is leaving Kansas over playing time issues. Over the previous three seasons, are starting 1 and 2 guards are getting ~30 and ~28 minutes, respectively. This year we have a four man rotation of 1s and 2s and they have all gotten 20+ minutes because Dingman has been out of the lineup and we've been going small. I'm not at all sure that will continue once we have DIngman back.
If Frankamp is 3rd in the rotation, he'll get 20+ minutes. Is that enough playing time for him?
It might be playing time, I suspect it is more than that. As I pointed out early in the thread, Self's high-low offense is effective when it has a solid offensive post player or two. When it isn't the offense seems to degenerate quickly. They don't run ball screens or a lot of screens for their guards and they don't do a lot of movement like we do either. When they don't have a big post presence, their guards do a lot of standing around and then driving into the lane for contested layups or chucking up contested 3's. Given that Self can recruit athletes that are much more suited for that offense than Frankamp, there's a real reason for him to get out while he still can.
Last year he essentially wasted a year of eligibility playing and, well, not playing with the only consistent extended minutes coming in the tournament. Before that, he was stuck behind Tharp who was an awful shooter and even more awful at holding onto the ball. Given that Self has already shown that he loves the athletes when his post players aren't delivering and given that he was stuck behind a couple of players who readily showed their inability to shoot and distribute last year, I don't think there was any question that Frankamp should have gotten out.
Also, if he's looking for only minutes, he's looking in the wrong places. WSU is loaded with young guards and is already 2 over their scholarship limit for next year (something would have to give for him to go there and it wouldn't be pretty). Colorado's offense has been a mess this year, so I'm not sure how he thinks he fits in there. In any case, he would get minutes here and would be valued and used in a way that maximized his talent.