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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 2805530, member: 2133"]
Which is true, but I think expectations different for a lot of people.  It's fortunate that SU has had some stellar do-it-all centers over the years, but it's been quiet on that front for a while.  JAB has said that big men are dinosaurs from the past or something to that effect, I think.

If someone is expecting more than blocks and some rebounds out of Chukwu by this point, then they're disappointed in his game (not his effort).  If they were expecting Rudy Gobert, then they're really disappointed.  If you want a giant in the center of the paint to swat shots and just be a body on offense, then he's been serviceable to exceptional [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&year_min=2019&year_max=2019&class_is_fr=Y&class_is_so=Y&class_is_jr=Y&class_is_sr=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&conf_id=acc&games_type=A&c1stat=mp&c1comp=gt&c1val=50&order_by=def_rtg']depending on the metric.[/URL]

Chukwu is a one-dimensional center (blocking shots), but that one dimension is all-league quality.  If JAB's absolute priority for his center is to just block shots, then Chukwu is practically engineered for him.  The only center in P5 basketball with more than 100 minutes played and a similar block percentage to Chukwu is freshman McD AA 5* recruit [URL='https://syracusefan.com/threads/c-moses-brown-ny-to-ucla.116849/']Moses Brown[/URL].
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