I watched the game on tape was it mentioned why Rysheed didnt start?
If there was no reason then I put this lose squarely on lavin. We had an opportunity to go up 15+ points at the start of the game and lavin ran out a lineup with Obekpa, Dom, and Felix out there at the same time!! That can NEVER happen. Total missed opportunity to open the game up big time. Then in the second half it takes him 5 minutes to put Rysheed back in the game while our guys play pitch and catch with each other as we fall behind by 7 points and never again get back in the game.
Plain and simple, the reason Lavins teams take so long to get going is because he tries to be to cute with lineup changes and rotations. He started a new lineup for the Bigeast opener. Unacceptable. Freaking branch has 3 assits in 5 minutes and phil, dom, and gift have more minutes than he does while felix played the same. Unacceptable.
I dont hate Lavin, im glad he is the head of our program but he needs to give up this every game is a new canvas shit and stick to a solid rotation. Thats what worked his first year, and thats what will work this year.