Kerr Krissa

[Basscat1987]

Am I the only one who would love for him to get more minutes? I don’t know how many he’s averaging but I doubt it’s more than 15 a game. 12 lastnight. I know he hasn’t shot it great but u could argue he’s the 2nd best shooter on the team based off career stats. I just want more than 12 minutes a game from him.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Yes but he needs to get better defensively; helluva facilitator and shooter though.

 

[DraftCat]

He struggles to get shots off. He's shooting from the NBA 3 point line in a lot of his attempts.

I'm fine with how Pope is using him right now... he's an energy guy.

 

[bnewt]

I like the speed and passing he brings, but he does hurt on defense. He also takes some bad shots

 

[Fox2monk]

He struggles to get shots off. He's shooting from the NBA 3 point line in a lot of his attempts.

I'm fine with how Pope is using him right now... he's an energy guy.

I love him coming off the bench. He’s a spark plug.

 

[megablue]

Here's an interesting observation: So far, Kriisa has taken 26 shots, with 24 of them being three-pointers. He has only attempted 2 free-throws, making both. As of right now, throughout his five-year career, he has attempted 837 shots, with 671 of them being three-pointers (80.2%). He is 121/153 from the free-throw line (79.1%) and is shooting 36.5% on threes for his career. Hopefully, he has the ability to be more than a one-dimensional scoring threat. If not, he will be much easier to defend, and will not get to the line very often. I agree with others here ... he is not strong defensively.

 

[Bungalow Bill]

Not me. Not yet anyway. Teams are putting him in the pick and roll to get mismatches. So far we're much better with Butler in the game. He can get to the rim and is such a great defender the pick and roll doesn't work much against him. KK will get better as we progress but we'll need Butler on the floor against the better teams until he does.

 

[JimboBBN]

Butler is clearly better than Kerr, so he needs the majority of the minutes at PG. And as others have said, I love the energy KK brings off the bench. I think it’s just right the way it is.

 

[KA4Prez]

He's a 15-20 MPG guy as a backup PG. He doesn't do enough to justify playing when Butler is also on the floor.
The guy who needs more run is Brea. He needs to shoot 8-10 threes a game.

 

[JonathanW]

Kriisa has averaged 15.3 mpg so far this year. And that is with him making <30% of his shots. So, you would expect the minutes to go up from there if he starts making a decent %.

As for last night, I don't know why but Pope played the team differently than the prior 5 games. Last night was a more traditional 8-man rotation with 4 guys playing 28-33min. Because our bench is almost as good as our starters, that is not the optimum way for this team to play. Most nights (vs P5 schools) our starting/best 5 aren't going to be significantly better than the other team's best 5. But our bench will be significantly better than theirs. So we need to keep our guys fresh, while wearing their guys down or force them to go deeper into their bench than they want.

 

[megablue]

Kriisa has averaged 15.3 mpg so far this year. And that is with him making <30% of his shots. So, you would expect the minutes to go up from there if he starts making a decent %.

As for last night, I don't know why but Pope played the team differently than the prior 5 games. Last night was a more traditional 8-man rotation with 4 guys playing 28-33min. Because our bench is almost as good as our starters, that is not the optimum way for this team to play. Most nights (vs P5 schools) our starting/best 5 aren't going to be significantly better than the other team's best 5. But our bench will be significantly better than theirs. So we need to keep our guys fresh, while wearing their guys down or force them to go deeper into their bench than they want.

I could be wrong, but I think the shorter bench may have been because we needed ball-handling against WKU's pressure MTM and Almonor played only 7 minutes because Carr had such a phenomenal height advantage against those defending him.

 

[WeWant9]

I love him coming off the bench. He’s a spark plug.

Yeah, he’s the type of guy who is great off the bench. He also seems comfortable with it and even said at the start of the season Butler is the guy at pg.

 

[Fox2monk]

Yeah, he’s the type of guy who is great off the bench. He also seems comfortable with it and even said at the start of the season Butler is the guy at pg.

I love his attitude and the fact that he isn’t scared at all. He will pull for the game winner,
.

 

[twwilliams9]

Here's an interesting observation: So far, Kriisa has taken 26 shots, with 24 of them being three-pointers. He has only attempted 2 free-throws, making both. As of right now, throughout his five-year career, he has attempted 837 shots, with 671 of them being three-pointers (80.2%). He is 121/153 from the free-throw line (79.1%) and is shooting 36.5% on threes for his career. Hopefully, he has the ability to be more than a one-dimensional scoring threat. If not, he will be much easier to defend, and will not get to the line very often. I agree with others here ... he is not strong defensively.

Man that was a deep dive into his game. Kudos

 

[megablue]

Man that was a deep dive into his game. Kudos

Thanks, but this website has these stats for all players and is easy to review:

Kerr Kriisa College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Kerr Kriisa - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more

www.sports-reference.com

 

[UKSanders]

Am I the only one who would love for him to get more minutes? I don’t know how many he’s averaging but I doubt it’s more than 15 a game. 12 lastnight. I know he hasn’t shot it great but u could argue he’s the 2nd best shooter on the team based off career stats. I just want more than 12 minutes a game from him.

Butler is clearly better than Kerr, so he needs the majority of the minutes at PG. And as others have said, I love the energy KK brings off the bench. I think it’s just right the way it is.

To be fair, too, Butler is only averaging 22 mpg, so while they aren't evenly split, it isn't like it's 30/10 for the PG mins.

Also, don't forget the staff has been heavily analyzing output per minute data, so substitution patterns have more meaning now. With that in mind, they may be giving Kriisa less minutes b/c he just performs better in shorter spurts.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

I think he's playing plenty for what he brings to the team.

 

[Basscat1987]

I think he's playing plenty for what he brings to the team.

If that’s the case then we should really start seeing Williams minutes go down. He is a liability on offsense, his defense isn’t what it was hyped up to be. Just bc you’re defensive player of the year at Drexel doesent mean it’s going to translate and to me it hasn’t. His best skill is passing but he is also turnover prone with some of those passes. Try’s to make a pass that isn’t there, etc., and the fact that he seems to give half ass effort the entire game is a sight for sore eyes.