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Message: [QUOTE="HW611, post: 5351329, member: 14096"] I understand part of the reason for these looking good is the fact that him playing longer probably means he’s playing well. I was just looking for a way to cut down the games watched while getting a lot of plays to judge. But that’s a fair point. Maybe sometime next week I’ll do the 10-15 min non-cupcake games. Xavier part 2, I only contested one of the fouls which the announcer also called a bad call. Out of the other 3 only one of them came from on ball defense which maybe the worst one from his on ball defense of the bunch. In Xavier part 2, his 4 foul calls was the play where Reed doesn’t stop ball in transition, he undercuts a guy on a rebound, the cheap foul call discussed, and this supposed to be block here: Realizing some of these timestamps are pulling up the wrong play. But it’s at 1:21:27 [MEDIA=youtube]4Ave3yQF8Wc:3506[/MEDIA] Only one of those fouls came from Ross’s on ball defense. Haven’t checked the film on the other games to speak on those. But for these, he’s not fouling a ton when he’s on ball. I didn’t assign blame to anyone in particular on the exchange with him and Karaban either, just noted everything that was going on. Wouldn’t say he was in no mans land as at some point he had committed to the player in the dunker spot and that’s when the pass to Maddox was made. He just had no business being there and that should’ve been someone else’s responsibility for the exact reason of Maddox being that open. But that’s not a blame one guy thing rather than a he and Karaban both had to do a better job of communicating on that. If Ross stayed attached to Maddox it may be an easy dunk instead if no one picks him up. One more thing about the fouling, as a guy who’s main job is to come in strictly to play aggressive defense the foul numbers don’t surprise me. Especially since his minutes were usually limited. If you’re in a big role, like Castle for instance, there will be instances where you may fall back on certain plays to avoid picking up a foul so you can stay on the court more. In Ross’s case, he’s not worried about that so he’s more likely to pick up cheap fouls that come from playing hard more than the average player who is getting extended minutes. Feel like that’s important context to note. While also typically guarding the other teams best player. If he had a consistent role that the team had to rely on him to be on the court as much as possible for, I think he would be smarter about how he used some of these fouls. [/QUOTE]

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