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making claims that he's the best defensive player in the draft have even less merit when he goes out and commits 7 personal fouls en route to some guy who didn't even get drafted dropping 36 on him did you read the article at all? dont think you even read the title/headline... theyre saying he...

he still cant guard well, had 7 personal fouls in 28 minutes the other night while his counterpart (who is a no-name undrafted guy) put up a monster game with 36 points going back to original comment of 'best defensive player in the draft' (which everyone knows is silly) --> just because you...

aday mara changed the entire game when he was in there opposing offense rim percentages were like 20-25 percent lower with mara on the floor than with him off... morez a fine defender but didn't change the game in this way as someone else said even lendeborg mightve been better too since morez...

mike boynton never even had a top 30 defense at ok st avg kenpom defense rank of 61 made 1 ncaa tourney in 7 seasons missed the nit 4 times in 7 seasons 51-75 b12 record defense probably had more to do with mara and johnson jr than a mike boynton midas touch

surprised you thought youd get any answer other than morez loved it here and evil brad pushed him out lol

this is the take everyone keeps coming back to that holds no water because if it were an issue then he wouldn’t have signed after the season like he did they only left after reneging on like three different contracts they signed

he was 18 mpg as freshman would imagine he could get to your 20+ number easily if he didnt foul so much

whatever i was looking at had this coming years pac12 included after all of stat corrections they were average rather than above average

ah yea i messed up my list... and its 87 power conference teams, not 79 so still firmly in the 'above average' percentile of pc programs and not a 'bad shooting team' not even close

illini were 62 percentile (30th of 79 power conference teams) so far from bad, actually agree tomi needs to hit more of em

do you really think they will rotate 5 post players while the only PG they have gets dnp's? lolz

that ruins the whole post for you? sheesh

yeah i agree with pretty much all of this, just have issues with teh walls of text that only criticize / no positives and then summarize by essentially claiming they know more and are better coach than underwood obviously what you wrote here is a much more balanced take than what i was...

never know how people come up with this stuff... 2 ranked offense nationally is poorly coached and not good in general source: trust me, im assistant coach at local junior hs, forgot more about ball than brad ever knew

it’s an obviously elite accomplishment, people who crap on stuff like that are front of the line in the bet-you’re-fun-at-parties club