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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 5107750, member: 1329"] Lyman played 19 minutes in the game against Shaq as part of a zone defense. Shaq had 27 and 16, shot 50% from the floor. He mostly played in the wing in the zone while Shaq was guarded by Sellers or Cyrulik. Occasionally had him as the low man or doubling. Shaq dunked over him a couple times on passes over the top of the zone. You don't get just credit for doing it. It has to be effective. He had moments and games in his career (Barros in the NIT), but All-Time top 10 is a tough bar at a place like UConn. He played 14 minutes or less a game his last 3 years. 8th, 9th, and 8th on the team in minutes. There are just better candidates to me who played more for better teams and were thus overall more impactful defenders over their careers. That's how I based the criteria. From the same team, Scott Burrell led the nation in steals. And in that game against LSU had [I][B]2 [/B][/I]sick chase-down block. That's more deserving of a spot than a bench spot defender, but he's still only 2nd team. Other 2nd team guys for me: Andre Jackson was the best defender in the starting lineup on a title team with a top 10 defense. Steph Castle was a defensive stopper in the starting lineup on a title team with a top 5 defense. Brimah is 40th in the NCAAs over the last 43 years in total blocks and was a league DPOY and also averaged 2.3 blocks a game on a title team off the bench. There have been something like 150,000+ players during that span. That's 99.97% percentile. He has a better career block rate than Clingan or anyone on UConn over the last 15 years (though I had Clingan on 1st team for a reason). I'm not pulling any of those guys for Depriest. [/QUOTE]

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