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[QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 4570483, member: 6520"]
Good info here, thanks for sharing.

One point of yours that I need to quibble with, though. I don’t recall a lot of people arguing strongly in mid-January that we “can’t start Maliq”. My recollection from that time is that most posters were very pleased with Maliq’s progress and were starting to get a little concerned about Benny (to be fair, December was Benny’s best month, so he had earned a little bit of goodwill). But after games like Va Tech (1/11), ND (1/14) and Ga Tech (1/21) - where Benny started but Maliq ended up playing the majority of the game - I saw a bunch of people basically saying ‘who cares who starts’ and/or ‘JB should play whoever is playing better’.

There was definitely more argument regarding Bell vs Taylor, with a bunch of people (myself included) who thought that Bell was unfairly taking the brunt of the blame anytime that SU played poorly. A lot of people were voicing strong opinions that JB absolutely had to bench Bell and start Taylor. There was even a comment made at one point along the lines of ‘anybody who supports Bell starting isn’t serious about winning’, which I thought was a bit over the top. So it’s interesting to see that the team has played better and that Bell has improved - because a lot of people were pretty adamant that this would not happen if JB stuck with Bell As the starter.
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