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[QUOTE="SU94, post: 5427231, member: 202"]
Choose your own path. Rely on numbers that you don’t likely cannot explain. Measure in hundredths of decimals. Or watch the game and realize that nearly every players has strengths and weaknesses, and there are precious few complete players. Ask yourself, who had to take more shots than were advisable, often at the end of the shot clock because no one else could create space to get the shot off? And did it while injured, and not just the left hand. Then ponder, who had to often guard the opponents’ top backcourt scorer? The 5-8 PG was not. Cuffe and Taylor combined barely played more minutes than JJ (who missed 7 games), so they were not. Context matters. The guy covering the opposing “dude” was JJ.

Is JJ a plus defender? No. A front runner for a slot on the ACC’s defensive first team? Nope. Which guard from our program, however, has fit that profile? Jason Hart. Yes. Thirty years ago in the BE. Maybe Triche? A decade+ ago in another conference. It’s not who we are.

You know who else were sub-par defenders: Devo, Pearl, Lazarus (only played hard the last five minutes of games in his one season of playing time), Edelin, Waiters, DeShawn. There are more. Allen Griffen started to play defense as a senior. Gerry was gritty, but slower (and he was never 6-2). So many here should stop acting like JJ is a unicorn of defensive futility just because you found a nifty new statistic that attempts to measure chaos.

And in the end, Alex Kline runs analytics/numbers too,  the caliber of which dwarf yours. And he (and Red) invited JJ back with open arms.
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