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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 5165140, member: 37"] Solo had a miserable first half and was the primary reason Villanova was playing even with us in spite of Stewart’s excellent defense on Dixon. So what were Hurley’s options? It was good to see Nowell get minutes but he was replacing Hass. So that left Hurley with the choice of Mahaney or Ross. It’s not like Mahaney played a lot better than Ross in that first half. He had zero points to Ross’s 3, zero rebounds to Ross’s 3. He did have two assists and 0 turnovers to Ross’s 0 assists and 1 turnover. His defense was slightly better than Ross although that’s debatable. He’s learned to keep his player from getting by him but fouls to stop him from scoring. Ross was a net positive ( although the bar was extremely low with how bad Solo was playing) until that horrible turnover. But Hurley took Ross out immediately after that and only put him in for a few minutes the second half to give Solo a breather. Thus I maintain Hurley utilized him well. The difference between my position and most of this forum is predicting what might happen to Ross’s game if he keeps getting 10-15 minutes. I’m hoping he can improve to the point his minutes will be important in the future. Most don’t think that’s possible and I understand that. But it’s not like there is a better option for Hurley. [/QUOTE]