I decided to look at those nine players — those who received at least 1 percent of the possible R.O.Y. vote last year — to see just how many minutes everyone is getting. Of course, Rubio just came back and has played all of two games, so I yanked him out. Shumpert has missed the first part of the season too, so I yanked him. Here are the other seven with bar graphs showing what percentage of their games this season have come at the different minute levels. There's a point in here, and you really can't miss it.

The other seven sophomores in our field have had two appearances with fewer than 20 minutes combined this season out of 129 games. Half of Isaiah's appearances have resulted in fewer than 20 minutes. Some 72 percent of everyone else's games have resulted in at least 30 minutes of burn. For Isaiah, that figure is 0 percent — he hasn't played 30 minutes or more once this season.

Add in that Isaiah has a few DNP-CDs (which aren't represented above), and you get the picture.