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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3419148, member: 1329"] You specifically asked for a reply and I gave it. "Made up or irrelevant", especially the parts where I used specific examples from recent games. Hilarious political dig, dude. Yeah the problem is that open standstill jumpers don't grow on trees, so he has to take contested ones. And no, contested shots do not equal blocked shots, just made less frequently. Contested 3s for example are made ~5% less often (36% open -> 31% contested). In general, it may all seem like small stuff, but it's the difference between true #1 options on teams who can create their own shots vs. heavy defensive attention and score and set up teammates efficiently, and role players taking too many mediocre shots like Vital. Yes, he's asked to do a lot by the team and that exposes more faults than he might normally show. As I said in my first post on the subject, I wish his role was better suited to his abilities: catch and shoot spot-up shooter, defensive passing lane menace, and emotional team leader. I'm sorry I forgot the important stats, like the fact that he's our leading scorer but not in the top 300 in the country in scoring. Or that he's our leading rebounder but not in the top 600 in the country in total rebounding rate. Or that he's 2nd in the team in assists but not in the top 450 in the country in assists per game. You're damning him with faint praise by celebrating these things. Now for an actually important stat: Of players who have used at least 26% of their team's possessions on the year, he's 244th out of 272nd in eFG%. That's the 11th percentile. Yes, he's taken the most foul shots on the team. He also uses the most possessions. Has it occurred to you that one of the reasons our offense is mediocre in general is because we don't get to the foul line enough as a team (especially since we lack shooting), and he contributes to that as the player who uses the most possessions on the team? Of our 6 recent losses, every single team gets to the line more per FGA on average for the season than we do except Villanova, who still had double digit more FTAs in the game we played against them. I've enjoyed having Vital on the team the last 4 years and he played a pretty good game on Wednesday. [/QUOTE]

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