[honestjchsfan]

I would have started Ulis and Booker over the Harrisons last season after the way the Harrison twins played so uncontrolled. First off, you have two guards who are 6'5 that don't even shoot 40% from the field. Their shot selection was horrible, especially when you had two big men in Karl-Anthony Towns and Willie Cauley-Stein that both shot over 55% from the field. Yet the Harrisons took 145 more shots than Towns and Cauley-Stein that season despite making almost 20% less of their shots. Towns, especially, should have touched the ball in the post on every possession. The only time that happened was against Notre Dame in the elite eight.

At the beginning of the season I would have started the twins given how well they played in the tournament in 2014. After they started taking all the errant shots, though, I would have benched them until they utilized better shot selection and let the offense run through the dominant big men. Ulis and Booker played unselfish and the offense ran so much smoother with them on the court. Booker stretched defenses at the 2 position with his three point shooting (Aaron Harrison shot only 32% from the 2 position while taking almost 40 more attempts on the season) and Ulis played very wise as a freshman. The combination of Ulis and Booker starting combined with the Harrison twins coming off the bench would have either (A) led to the twins playing more controlled basketball and earning their starting positions back or (B) the team would have won a title with Ulis and Booker's unselfish play while the Harrison twins provided a nice spark off the bench.

You are not considering all the all stats. In 2015 the Harrison Twins took a combined 279 fewer shots than Murray and Ulis did in 2016. You are also not considering the twins defensive Skills, yes I know Ulis won SEC Defensive POY but Check the Box score of the UT and Auburn losses this year! Those 2 games cost UK a 2 seed this year! Two below average PGs put 26 and 27 points on Ulis! The twins allowed UK to switch every ball screen they defended the 3 point shot very well. If you check the stats Andrew Harrison actually shot a higher percentage from 3-point range than Ulis did in 2016. In 2015 Andrew turned the ball over a total of 2 more times playing 3 full games more than Ulis in 2016. Ulis was better from 2 point range but IMO Andrew played against better players, big guys like Frank Kaminsky, Myles Turner, Sam Deker Bobby Portis and Kevon Looney! No coach is going to bench his starting guards when they are in a Undefeated run! I do agree with you that UK should have ran there Offense threw Karl Towns by doing so there is a good chance that Kaminsky gets in foul trouble! Cal's game plan is Cal's fault not the Twins.