Just my two cents, don't have inside info, but have first hand experience as a player (probably not the easiest player to coach also)....
Playing time is really about the only leverage a coach has on a player. When you play at this level, you have an obsession with it, and when you are on the bench, it's brutal. When you get benched outside your normal rotation or minutes, you start to battle a lot of demons. Your choice is to go the coach and see what you need to do, or continue on the path you were on.
From my experience, this late in the year, coaches rarely change rotational minutes based on specific instances of quality of play. They make take them out for one minute to discuss something they saw, but rarely will they make a significant change.....unless.. they need to change a behavior. That behavior may be sport related, off the court, on the court, classroom, communication, it's hard to say. But many times when dealing with kids that age, playing time is the only way they have to get their attention. Do you want to lose a game because of it, no. The Baylor 3 point barrage was so quick, I don't think BDJ's playing time would have mattered much. Obviously, the KSU game turned abruptly as well.
I don't know it for a fact, but I would guess there is a pretty significant reason his minutes have dropped, and if not injury related, probably not anything to do with how he was playing when he was on the floor.
Playing time is really about the only leverage a coach has on a player. When you play at this level, you have an obsession with it, and when you are on the bench, it's brutal. When you get benched outside your normal rotation or minutes, you start to battle a lot of demons. Your choice is to go the coach and see what you need to do, or continue on the path you were on.
From my experience, this late in the year, coaches rarely change rotational minutes based on specific instances of quality of play. They make take them out for one minute to discuss something they saw, but rarely will they make a significant change.....unless.. they need to change a behavior. That behavior may be sport related, off the court, on the court, classroom, communication, it's hard to say. But many times when dealing with kids that age, playing time is the only way they have to get their attention. Do you want to lose a game because of it, no. The Baylor 3 point barrage was so quick, I don't think BDJ's playing time would have mattered much. Obviously, the KSU game turned abruptly as well.
I don't know it for a fact, but I would guess there is a pretty significant reason his minutes have dropped, and if not injury related, probably not anything to do with how he was playing when he was on the floor.
