His buyout is north of $5 million. He's not going anywhere. You had 8 scholarship players available tonight, and it's really 7 with McBrayer basically playing on one leg. He's slow to close out on shooters and can't explode driving the line, no lift on that left leg.
There isn't a coach in college basketball who could win consistently with this situation. The season ended when Lynch was suspended and Coffey went out. You can't win games with 3 starters out and virtually half the team not practicing due to injury. You can only watch so much film, they can't apply much to practice because guys are dinged up and need to rest.
Not having Coffey tonight was killer with his length on both ends of the floor. It changed everything.
Nate Mason was horrible tonight. Complained about contact in the lane and didn't get back on defense, and his shot selection was awful. He had at least 2 threes that airballed to the side of the rim, not sure I've ever seen that before. BK not being able to corral a rebound, which led to a Bohannon 3, was the back-breaker. It got back up above double digits after that and we could never recover.
Nice to see Jelly and Fitzgerald step up tonight, but this team needs Mason at his best to have any shot to win.
Remember, next year the front-court is Murphy, Curry, Oturu, Stockman and Jarvis assuming everyone stays healthy. That's a hell of a lot more depth than we've had in a long time.