Mann still the man

I suggested in my LSU post mortem that perhaps it's time to sit Charles Mann down again and start J.J. Frazier at the point.  Mark Fox isn't there yet:

"He's been a good player for us and we'll stick with Charles, and hopefully he'll fight his way through this," Fox said on Monday.

To be fair to Charles, it hasn't been all bad.  He's shooting an OK 44% from the field and 36% from the 3-point line and he's pulling down almost 6 rebounds per game.  He's also still getting to the foul line at a high rate...though he's not making nearly enough of them.

Even worse than his foul shooting, though, are his turnovers.  His assist-to-turnover ratio sits at an anemic 1.0 because he has turned the ball over 50 times already this season.  That's way, way too many for a starting point guard.  Much of it is his ball-handling, but some is just poor decision making, which is disheartening coming from a junior who has played big minutes since the moment he set foot on campus.

With a shorthanded team tonight on the road, Mann has to get it cleaned up.  It may be time to experiment more with Charles at SF (something we've already seen a little bit this season) and try to get a few quality minutes from Taylor Echols off the bench at PG.

Either way, Mann is going to be on the floor, and Georgia will be leaning on him.  How he plays is as likely as anything else to determine the outcome in Nashville.

h/t Seth Emerson