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[QUOTE="auror, post: 4838472, member: 1329"]
When he attacked the basket in semi-transition and pushed the lead from 6 to 8 with ~5 minutes left, I thought it was one of the biggest plays of the game. It was a small decision. He could have slowed it down and tried to get a team shot, but that attack mindset is how you win games on the road. Butler came down and hit a 3 and scored on their next 2 possessions after that and pulled within 1. If we get a worse shot there or if Diarra makes the right play but misses the contested layup (something he did a lot of last season), we'd have been down 1 with 3.5 min left instead of up 1. The crowd would have been going even more nuts, and who knows how the game plays out from there.

He's upped his RAPM from 2.7 to 5.4 this season (21st in Big East, not bad for a bench player). From an overall negative on offense last season to a decently positive player (5th best ORAPM on one of the best offenses in the country) this season. Shooting 87% from FT line and getting there more often than last season. 6/13 from 3 in December and January.
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