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Message: [QUOTE="Bazz2014, post: 4474244, member: 10369"] Whether or not Samson starts will have little to nothing to do with his potential impact on this team. Last night was the perfect case and point for that when Hawk and Tristan cooled off and Joey and Hass came in and completely changed the energy and complection of the game. This does not strike me as a team where anyone is getting their nose bent out of shape about who is on the floor at tip off. Every single night can be “your night” to go off. Joey did it last night, Don did it to win PKI, alleyne was clutch against butler…. We have an incredibly small sample size on SJ this year but the coaching staff was very high on him coming into the season and they haven’t been wrong about much yet in 2022. Coming back to the game slowly, getting his mind and body back into the flow of things without having a huge amount of pressure on his shoulders to be “lights out” right away is a recipe for SJ to overperform if the preseason outlook on him is correct. It also gives him plenty of time to carve out a nice role for himself as a dynamic defender who gives us a completely different set of tools to work with than Karaban. Hopefully, his return also takes some pressure off AK who has been forced to play a much larger role than anticipated in his first true year as a husky (and in my opinion, he has exceeded expectations even in those games where he was picked on). The last thing I’m worried about is who starts at the 4, and frankly it should be the last thing AK or SJ are worried about, either. [/QUOTE]

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