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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 5657132, member: 60"]
Keep doing these. Love 'em. One quibble: Notre Dame is not good. They aren't atrocious, but they are not good.

Burton, as you noted, did not play. He is, by far, ND's best player.

They have one guy with over a 20 PER, Burton, who did not play. They have three other guys total with over a 15 PER which is average. They are 114th in 3PT% defense and 196th in overall FG% defense.

We beat a bad team because our guys have innate talent, imo. Credit to them. If Donnie broke a team rule, then he should have been benched. That's life.

Starling's hot start was not an indication of anything. It was an anomaly. And when he has these games they have proven, over the course of starting 102 games in his career, to be an outlier. It is why his career TS% is 50.3% and his TS% this year is 50.1%. I would wager he does better against bad teams.

Donnie and Nate Kingz should still get the bulk of our shots. They are at 60.8% and 59.6% TS%. However, JJ is one FGA/game below Donnie, with a TS% 10 percentage points lower than Donnie.

JJ had a great first half. No doubt. Kudos to him. It's not normal and after 100+ games, it's much more likely than not that it was because it was a bad team and he is due to have a good game every once in a while.
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