There’d be some raw talented kid on the bench not really getting minutes as an underclassman, but a dud upperclassman who’d put in his time still got 25+ minutes. And the dud would usually be *okay* but overall a disappointment.

It really wasn’t until the benching of Paulus his senior year that I ever saw K demote a wack upperclassman’s minutes. Then Hairston. And I was super grateful for both.