Bummer! This team will miss his energy level for sure. That being said, Bittle fits Altman's style of play much better than Kepnang if he can make a decent jump in the offseason. As the poster above noted, I wish Altman would have stuck with Bittle more and let him work through some things. But I know that it is a difficult coaching decision to let a player learn lessons on the floor when you are consistently in very close games and sitting on the bubble all year.
Mistakes are amplified and one or two can cost you a shot at an NCAA tourney bid, which is exactly what happened in the early Stanford and ASU games. I think this is why he was riding the veterans a little more this season.