PCTI Players Poll: #13 BMac

The Brat's Preamble: PCTI can bring out the selfishness in anyone. Maybe it's when you get pissed off reading the blog and decide you (YOU!) are going to show out this year - and thereby you've put yourself ahead of the team. Maybe it's in a game when you feel like you (YOU!) aren't touching the ball enough or on the court enough or having your jokes laughed at enough or going high enough in the roommate draft so you do something to change it, usually something that retrospectively you'd chalk up as a stupid decision. (It goes without saying it's easy for me to draw from personal experience here.)

I don't think there's a selfish bone in B-Mac's body. I've known the guy for around half of my life and like probably 99.9 percent of people who know Bryan, I can't say a bad thing about him. In all honesty, I'm not sure I can say the same about anyone else in this thing (except for maybe Beas and Spot.)

But the thing is, sometimes a degree of selfishness is a good thing. Especially in sports and especially in our sporting weekend where the teams are thrown together anew and it often takes guys asserting their will to get things to function. At the very least, it gets you noticed.

By no fault of his own, BMac just sort of blends in especially early in the weekend when teams are figuring out their pecking order. I think we'd all agree that his lack of selfishness is often a good thing. But for the purposes of this experiment, it probably lands him lower on the list than (at least by looking at past performances) he deserves.

Voting Breakdown: highest vote: 9, lowest vote: 14

PCTI Lifetime Record: 2-2, seems appropriate.

Lifetime Stats: 7.2 ppg (T-10 with Skillz), 3.8 rpg (12th, for BMac loyalists like myself, this stat is most surprising/disappointing), 7 blocks (7th), 18 steals (4th, good showing), 39 percent shooting (9th but for perspective, one made shot away from being tied with Abe), 27.9 from three (8th, three makes away from jumping Beas and being tied with Abe for sixth.) and the all important Sabin Productivity Rating: 108 (11th)

Lifetime Bests: 17 points (PCTI IIII, game 5), 9 rebounds (PCTI II, the deciding game 7), 4 assists (PCTI II, game 5)

Other Notes: Interesting that B-Mac's best scoring game happened in a loss at PCTI IIII. History remembers his performance in the late stages of last year's weekend very differently. It felt like he made one back breaking shot after another in the final games but that's not really what happened, although his play in those last few games was certainly solid.

Perhaps this speaks to a little bit of what is working against BMac's image and standing within PCTI. All of us are hyper tuned in early in the weekend. The biggest impressions are made in the first couple of games. After that, everyone gets tired and more focused on themselves and is less likely to observe what is happening around them. For BMAC, his stats play out nearly the same in all four of his PCTIs. He's very quiet early. With the lone exception (oddly) of a pretty solid game in the very first PCTI game, he's never done anything significant early in a PCTI. All his good games from a statistical perspective have been late in the tournament. This certainly also can be traced back to BMacs infamous stamina (pause) that although has shown signs of deterioration in recent years, is still at an elite level relative to the rest of the competitors.

For instance, to go with his solid play late in last year's tournament, he went for 12 and 9 in game seven of PCTI II and had a nice 15 point game in a critical game five win in PCTI I. Obviously anyone would rather have a teammate deliver late in the weekend than early but it's not good for one's image when the same people who are forming opinions are also the ones trying to survive the physical grind.

One other interesting note. BMac had nine (!!) rebounds in all of PCTI IIII. That would be last place. As I'm sure he'd admit, that's unacceptable for a guy like him who has shown that he has the timing and motor to be an impactful rebounder.

Lastly, true to form, BMAC barely registered in the superlative voting. He got a vote for most overrated player....and a vote for most underrated player. He got a vote for most disappointing player...and a vote for most overachieving player. He also snagged a vote for best looking!