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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3184466, member: 405"]
As much as I don't want to be a "Buddy Basher" (I'm not, I was one of his earliest fans, early freshman year),

BUT - is it just me, or does he look a step slower so far this year?  That's what I'm going to be watching for tomorrow night: can he stay in front of his man at the top of the zone?

Because when you speak of having the instincts to play an effective floor game, you have to have a baseline ability to use those instincts to put you in the right place to make a play.  You [U]can[/U] sag off the guy a bit - especially in a zone! - to make sure a guy doesn't drive by you.  I must have counted 4 times that Buddy was [I]behind[/I] his guy, trying to still make a play on the guy who just went by him down the middle of the lane.  
Most of the time, those kind of plays are going to be called fouls, and he won't be on the floor.

Seriously, I think he was more mobile last year, and whatever exercise he needs to do, he better start doing it, so by January, every ACC guard in the league won't be dribbling into the guts of our zone this year.
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