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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 5021539, member: 837"]
Teammates are context. Every argument worth anything is framed within some sort of context. It’s why so much political discourse is worthless — wild soundbites with zero substance are more lucrative/productive.

So when we look at Judah it’s only fair to consider who he is playing with. The first half of the year a good 50% or so of Judah’s minutes came with the lineup of Taylor/bell/mccleod/JJ. With JJ unable to shoot the ball and a system that was heavy on iso with three players who simply aren’t iso players (Taylor/mcleod/bell), the offense looked clunky and a good chunk of our wins were Judah carrying that group on his back offensively.

The second half of the year we got far more of the brown/q/Benny with a more effective JJ. There was better player movement and ball movement and we were downright dangerous offensively in feb.

In my opinion there is no argument on the planet that we were better without Judah than with him. What we were hoping for was more consistent effort on both ends from Judah, better shooting and more unselfishness. That didn’t quite happen.

But he was still our best player, even if Brown was our most valuable player. The criticism he’s taken here, to me, has been overboard. We’re all dying to see this program back in the top 25 and the tourney but pointing at Judah as the primary reason that didn’t happen has no merit, imo.
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