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Message: [QUOTE="joober jones, post: 2988648, member: 1844"] I'm going to continue preaching the point I've been going on all season - Jalen Adams is not a 2. With Alterique at the point, he's playing off the ball for the first significant amount of time in his college career - as a senior no less. When playing the point, he's in a more secure headspace and can go with a plan and execute. When his shots weren't falling, he could still be an asset by becoming a facilitator for the other guys. That brings us to his quote. If a shooting guard isn't hitting and isn't getting much time handling the ball, there's not much he can do on offense. To tell the truth, he was hurt more than anyone else by the KO years. Not by Ollie specifically, but just the whole set of circumstances that took place during Jalen's first three years. Now in his senior season, he's being thrust into a very different role and is having trouble making the adjustment. Someone said that Adams is like Dyson without the wins. That's close - a more apt analogy would be Dyson without the wins while also being switched to the point in his senior year. JA isn't blameless, but he came in with huge expectations thrown at him from all angles and had more booby traps along the way than any other player I can think of. He still needs to get it together mentally and realize the seriousness and immediacy of his situation. That being said, he's quite possibly the biggest example of "wrong place, wrong time" I've seen in my 30+ years as a college basketball fan. [/QUOTE]

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