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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 5275704, member: 6798"] Getting long winded again but I have a little time off so what the hell. The exact same thing people do with Spallina's performance against top teams can be done with other star attack, even those other former #1 recruits at the top of the top. Shellenberger's 1st game against ND: 1-2, second game: 0-2, 1st game against MD: 2-1, 2nd game against MD in the semis: 1-1, against Duke: 1-3. Don't get me wrong, I think Shelly was the better player last season and Joey needs to take another step forward to match his impact, but are these stats really all that different from Spallina's against these teams? They tell a similar story to Spallina's games against them. The elite long pole is draped on him all game and he does not blow up the stat sheet, while other dodging weapons pick up his slack (or they don't and the game is lost). And yet you will never find people, whether it is Quint or a twitter troll, analyzing Shelly's performances in this way, while they did it with Spallina every chance they got. ONeill you could easily do the same thing, if not on a level even more extreme than Spallina, and unlike Shelly he doesn't have an early career natty under his belt: Notre Dame 1st game 2-0, second game 1-0, Maryland in the playoffs 3-0, and then on top of that you have in a loss to Penn 1-0, loss to UNC 2-1, the first Cuse game loss 1-1, and do not even get me started on his shooting percentages in any of those games. Stars who are strong off the dodge get contained by a top longpole match up all the time. They have bad games. In the case of Oneill and others like him (Duffy and Millon may carry his torch), that often turns into them continuing to try and start something one on one and hurting the team with their inefficient shooting. I think it is actually a good thing to critique attack in this way, but realize that veeeery few emerge unscathed when you break down their seasons like this. Last year, Pat Kav may be the only one who still looks strong when analyzed this way. A guy like Coulter Mackesy sure as hell doesn't, yet they do not throw that line around with him ever. Why? Spallina is a spot below him on the list and Quint only has a line throwing shade at him. [/QUOTE]

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