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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5656058, member: 405"]
I've mentioned several times directly to you now that he started off 7-12 from three in the ACC, and has gone 5-21 since then, as we had a four game losing streak. NOT CONSISTENT,

Nine blocked shots in his first 6 games, one in his last 7 games. NOT CONSISTENT.

He had only 4 rebounds and no blocked shots in our home loss to Miami, and he failed to get to the line even ONCE in 32 minutes. He played soft and we got Big Boyed by a team we should have beaten.

I just gave you the recent numbers, and we just had a 4 game losing streak against the worst teams in the league.

People talk about efficiency and advanced metrics like they are straight from God herself.  And yet one of the statistically most [I]inefficent[/I] players for us was Saint Gerry McNamara.

I can't count how many times (after the Championship Year) he had a 4-17 game or a 5-23 game, and he would hit the game winning shot. SO MANY TIMES.

Some players are clutch and refuse to lose games.  Some players drop their heads and stop trying when they are losing. Donnie wasn't even there for our biggest games of the year.

What games has he won for us this year?  I would say Florida State and Georgia Tech.  Those were his best efforts in games we actually won.  That's about it.

Sure, he's putting up numbers, but nobody's calling him an all league player, let alone all american.  Nobody's got him on their draft boards.

He's a huge talent, but he plays soft, and he doesn't play inside-out enough.  He also isn't strong enough defensively.  He's statistically pretty good on the boards, but so was Eddie Lampkin.
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