Sunday, February 28, 2010

In Case You Were Wondering (About Harris)

Freshman C.J. Harris played 14 minutes yesterday against North Carolina. Coming in, he was averaging 28.2.

Harris took three shots (two from 3-point range) and missed them all. For the second game in a row, he didn’t score.

Over the last five games, Harris has shot 15 percent from the floor (five for 33) and 12 percent from 3-point range (two for 17) while averaging 3.6 points. Before the slide, he was averaging 11.2.

So I asked Coach Dino Gaudio what was going on with C.J. Harris.

“I just think C.J. is a terrific kid who, like a few in that locker room, has just lost his confidence a little bit,’’ Gaudio said. “We sat down with him and put a C.J. Harris clip together where he was playing really well. At Gonzaga. He shot the ball really well against Purdue. We had all those shots he made just to say `Hey C.J., you’ve done it. Here look,’ just to try to make him a little bit of a pick-me-up-tape, if you will.’‘