Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Chief00, post: 5265793, member: 11108"] I don’t question Samson’s effort, aggressiveness or athleticism. He is also a fine person. I also recognized he started the game much later than many of his teammates, so some of my criticisms should be expected. But, he was not effective defensively on the High Hedge. He average 2.9 fouls a game playing 19.3 minutes. Translated to 40 minutes, he would have 6.01 fouls per game. That’s not an illustration of someone who is making good defensive decisions but rather someone putting the other team into the early penalty and part of the many reasons we took 157 less foul shots than our opponents. In the post Samson is still learning not to go for the first fake and to also position himself defensively to rebound. Reed did that much better than Johnson, with 160 defensive rebounds to 73 for Johnson. Reed had 87 defensive rebounds more or 119% more,with similar minutes. [/QUOTE]