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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 3293979, member: 581"]
Yeah, I'm with you on this one.  They gameplan for him - he just can't function at the same level with defensive attention, mixed with athleticism.  Which puts us in an insanely awkward position if Eli isn't playing as Buddy's occupying the role of shooting guard.  Otherwise, it just puts us in an awkward position against other good defensive teams as, again, he's a shooting guard with a very limited arsenal.

Nevertheless, kid has to play big minutes on the team as constructed.  He can shoot it like crazy, and he's a smart player.  Plus, typically Eli is in the game, and we're not matching up against a ton of great defensive squads this year.

I think where JB fails is that he just pretends like situations do not, or will not, arise where BB can be negated - and when you have a specialist at SG, you better have prepped your back-up option.  Well.

All that being said, this game could have gone just like UVA.  Hughes ties it, we go to OT, and Buddy suddenly scores 15 in OT and we blow the roof off the place.  He definitely has that kind of impact and shooting ability.

It's not an easy decision for JB at times, but I do think he's making a lot of curious decisions regarding PT knowing the limitations at shooting guard this year.
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