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Message: [QUOTE="JustbrewitMan, post: 5098683, member: 7806"] OK here's SJ's last rotation of the game. Probably his worst one of the game but still had positives: SJ re-enters game at 8:52 mark... O1-Due to offensive set flow, [I]SJ gets separated from JB[/I]. SJ does a screen handoff for SB; JB sags way off SJ and stays in the lane. SB shoots a wide open 3 from right side. SJ goes to crash boards from right, but ball caroms to left side & JB gets the Reb. No RebO. D2-JB sets high P-n-R. SJ defends, Hass fouls the dribbler at FT line. Misses FT, it goes towards left block. SJ has JB sealed, he jumps forward to get rebound. [B][I]#55 for URI starts left side, goes under hoop, jumps into SJ. They collide. Refs call a foul on SJ. Really bad call. This is #4 on SJ.[/I][/B] RebO missed due to a sus foul call. #55 bricks 2nd FT; SJ has JB sealed, but the ball goes right side deep, so JB is able to reach/grab RB. Tough to really say this was bad rebounding by SJ if you watch the replay (8:07 mark). AK called for the foul on JB. URI guy misses front end, SB, SJ, and JB all are tangled up, rebound sails high and behind both JB & SJ. SJ gets hand on it, but can’t secure it, but it’s OOB on URI. I’ll be critical and say it was a missed RebO. O2-SJ spends 1st part in screening/passing roles up high. He rolls to right block after screening JStew. JStew drives to corner of FT line, shoots a floater. SJ & JB both go up for rebound, SJ gets one hand on it, but can’t secure it; it bounces hard off the floor & OOB. FWIW, as they go to TV timeout, SJ indicates to the ref that his arm was held on the rebound. Camera angle is bad so it was tough for me to see if true or not. I’ll be critical though and say that if he had both hands up on his jump, he probably should have secured the rebound. Missed RebO. D3-JB sets a high screen. SJ looks ready to high-hedge on the URI guard, but then JB quickly flashes to hoop. SJ backs off and drops to cover JB. URI guard is able to get around SB, drives lane. JStew rotates over, layup is missed, ball tipped right to Hass. O3-SJ sets a high screen. Ball skips to SB, who drains a 3 from left wing. D4-JB & SJ start on left block, JB flashes high, quick screen, SJ defends it well, ball rotates to right side, URI player hits turnaround fadeaway on right block over JStew. No RebO. O4-SJ sets up top of key. Pops out to left side of top of key. SB cuts to hoop. [B][I]SJ threads a perfect bounce pass in the lane to SB. SB hits the layup and is fouled for the and-one. Beautiful play!!![/I][/B] D5-JB gets the ball on left side of lane. JB muscles his way laterally right and drop-steps for a contested layup over SJ. Tip your cap to JB…SJ playing with 4 fouls and likely wasn’t going to contest 100%. O5-SJ sets a couple screens, there’s a foul to put AK to the line. SJ leaves the game at 5:53. [B]TL/DR Summary:[/B] -SJ gets called for his 4th foul after 17min of action. Two (and maybe 3) were pretty soft/phantom calls. No moving screen foul calls (sorry alphasigko!!!) -Had couple of missed RebO in this last rotation that you’d like to see your center get. -Beautiful assist to Solo that resulted in a 3pt play -Mentioned in another post: If you look at Brown's stats while they were both in and guarding each other, I counted [B][I]only 4pts/2reb for Brown directly matched up with Samson[/I][/B]. [B][I]The other 12pts/8reb were outside of SJ's direct control[/I][/B]. Will be interesting to see what Brown does this year vs. A10 competition but he's big, strong, reasonably agile, and has some quick post moves. He was a great 1st-test for 24/25 Samson, IMHO. Of course, this is just one game, and we need to see these important improvements sustained over multiple games before we get too excited. But it’s clear he’s worked on improving multiple aspects of his game and I’m encouraged to see what happens as the season progresses. For those of you who took the time to read these posts, I hope you found them interesting and entertaining. [/QUOTE]

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