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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 5351318, member: 1329"] Two thoughts to consider. The first is that this is a biased selection of games (despite understandable reason to pick these). He got more minutes in these games in part [I]because [/I]he was effective and/or his skillset was needed. It's sampling bias. Secondly, you're just underselling some of his issues. He didn't do a good job consistently playing defense with his feet. The fouls are a problem. In the 2nd Xavier game for instance, he just fouled 4 times in 25 minutes. He wasn't unlucky with fouls or any other sort of minimization. He fouled 4 guys. In the first Xavier game, he fouled 4 times in 19 minutes. One of them was the horrible make-up call (though he did grab the guy, but they usually let that go), but the rest were clear fouls. I thought most of the times you wrote bailout or judge for yourself were good calls. He's aggressive and swings down, jumps into attackers, and reaches in, and defenders lose protections when they do those things. Overall, he averaged a foul every 7 minutes in the games you picked, which would foul him out in games if he got starting caliber minutes. And again these were the games he earned the most playing time through good performances. Other games were even worse. He had 4 fouls in 12 minutes in the Dayton game. There's a lot of "11 minutes, 2 fouls" in his game log. Fouling is bad, and there are trickle down effects that lead to more points for the opponent even if it didn't directly translate to points in the moment. Especially since he had such a marginal steal rate relative. Also, sometimes you noted an error, but then blamed someone else. Like on the Karaban dunker spot thing. Could he and Karaban have communicated and done a better job having Karaban guard the guy in the dunker's spot or have Ross actually rotate to that guy if Karaban was sticking with his man? Yeah. But in the end, the communication didn't happen, and then who was he guarding on the play when that particular communication didn't happen? Nobody. He was in no man's land. [/QUOTE]

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