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Message: [QUOTE="Storrs South, post: 2471822, member: 7275"] Can I just ask where narrative has come from that Jalen isn't a leader? IIRC, Jalen is the one usually directing traffic and I remember often last season he would get very animated talking to other players after someone made a mistake. In fact, while Purvis/Brimah/Facey were the seniors last year, I always remember that Jalen was the one taking control of the situation based on who was doing the talking and motioning guys around on the court. Some may say he doesn't make others better, but last I checked he averaged 6 assists a game where the only people shooting better than him from 3 were two freshman (Vital/Jackson). And the last time anyone got close to 6 assists a game was Shabazz in 2011-12 (5.8 APG) & AJ Price 2007-08 (5.8 APG) and last to exceed that was Marcus Williams with 8.6 APG in 05-06. He's so good at getting to the rim that he draws a crowd and creates open looks for others and often can make a nice pass to get it to that guy (no guarantee that guy will make it as we have seen time and again). If you want to talk about defense, then yes it's not good and that may be what people are referring to and that requires effort and BBIQ but also can tie into leadership I suppose. I look at these numbers and think it really just boils down to being more efficient from 3, playing better defense, getting to the line more frequently, and getting the FT% back to where it was last year. That's quite a list of to-do items but 10 games (he's actually only played in 9 -- hi scooter!) is still a small sample size. Similar to my post in the Larrier thread, what's frustrating about this team is that we've seen the talent come from these players in flashes but it isn't gelling enough to be play 40 minutes of quality basketball. No surprise, but if this team has any hope of turning this around, it's going to come down to Adams/Larrier/Vital stepping up because as we have seen there is not a lot of room for error with this team. The bigs are better than we thought while simultaneously being as bad (or raw) as we thought they would be. P.S. This team must have a record for most traveling calls since the beginning of the 2016-17 season. [/QUOTE]

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