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Message: [QUOTE="whaler11, post: 3051027, member: 676"] Surrounded by a certain cohort of teammates - Mouring can hit almost half his three pointers as a junior. Then when he returns as a senior with higher expectations and a different set of teammates that don’t allow him such freedom things don’t go so well. When Vital is the third or fourth option in your offense he can be realtively efficient and productive. With weaker teammates where a defense focuses on stopping him his limitations are exposed. With respect to this conversation, people seem to think players improve in a linear fashion and anticipate the combination of another year and higher usage would lead to positive things for Vital. In fact the opposite is true - more usage exposes him and he becomes less effective. To answer your question more directly - if people better understood Mouring’s career it would mean they understood the context of results and there would be many fewer absurd takes here. [/QUOTE]