Rhode Island MBB's 2017-2018 Rotation - Splitting Up the Minutes
In the 2017-2018 season, the Rhode Island men's basketball team will still have an abundance of talent; they just need to find enough minutes for everyone to get in each game and contribute. Consequently, I decided to try to help split up the minutes. (The (rounded) minutes per game are based on mathematical calculations, as well as the minutes that each player should average when Dan Hurley uses his standard lineups.)
E.C. Matthews: 28 minutes per game
Reasoning - The highest-rated NBA prospect on the roster
Jared Terrell: 30 minutes per game
Reasoning - The most clutch shot-maker on this team
Jarvis Garrett: 20 minutes per game
Reasoning - Garrett is a much-improved free-throw shooter that embraces any role on the team
Jeff Dowtin: 24 minutes per game
Reasoning - Jeff Dowtin has Atlantic 10 Player of the Year potential.
Stanford Robinson: 28 minutes per game
Reasoning - Robinson is arguably the team's best wing defender and he earned ample playing time after his performances on 2017 Senior Night and the Round of 32 game against Oregon.
Cyril Langevine: 26 minutes per game
Reasoning - He is a "Man-child" on the glass and blocks shots like Hassan Martin.
Nicola Akele: 10 minutes per game
Reasoning - Akele is a useful tool for trying to get a quick three-pointer.
Christion Thompson: 10 minutes per game
Reasoning - Christion Thompson is the perfect man to spell Jared Terrell, E.C. Matthews, and Stanford Robinson when necessary and Hurley does not lose much, as a result.
Andre Berry: 14 minutes per game
Reasoning - Fourteen minutes of Berry time means fourteen straight minutes of points on the offensive end for Rhode Island's basketball team.
Michael Layssard Jr: 12 minutes per game
Reasoning - Michael Layssard Jr. stretches the floor offensively and he is an improving defender. Layssard Jr. has the talent to be in the starting lineup.
Michael Tertsea: 8 minutes per game
Reasoning - "Big Mike" is a tower in the paint that opposing offenses will have trouble trying to score on.
Daron Russell: 16 minutes per game
Reasoning - Russell is a winner that gives Dan Hurley another multi-dimensional guard to work with.
Ryan Preston: 18 minutes per game
Reasoning - Preston plays as a stretch four that has the potential to be a hybrid between Kuran Iverson and Hassan Martin.
Will Leviton: 0 minutes per game
Reasoning - He knows how to do bench celebrations well.
Eric Dadika: 0 minutes per game
Reasoning - He knows how to do bench celebrations well.
