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[QUOTE="hoopsupstate, post: 159674, member: 13"]
People are really understating what Fab means to this team.  He is our only [U][B]PHYSICAL[/B][/U] presence.  No one else plays a physical game except maybe Dion.  Teams have no fear coming inside against Keita or Christmas.  If you've watched our games this year, players would come into the lane and either get stuffed, lose the ball or just get rid of it.  There was none of that going on last night.   Fab takes up so much space it allows all of our other players to extend on defense. I heard people say  today that he only averages 7 points a game.  True, but he also takes away 8 points per game with blocks and how many other does he alter and how many point blank misses are there because he intimates the hell out of people.  His blocks also leads to some run outs, which we had ZERO last night.   Without Fab we have 5-6 losses left on our schedule.  Did you notice our pick and roll offense was not there last night.  Without Fab, it really hurts Scoop and his ability to pick apart a defense.  Fab sets great screens and when he rolls he takes two people or Scoop can just lobs it back to him.    What hurts us the most is that our whole subsitution pattern is gone because Fab is missing.  CJ is no longer coming in when other teams are subbing and he cleans up the offensive boards because Fab takes up so much space.  Hopefully, Fab will be back on Tuesday.  If he's not, this place is going to be in a complete melt down over the rest of the reason.
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