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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 4991578, member: 60"]
After a year playing against the bigs on other teams and having to cover for the ineptitude in defense from our guards and wings, I don't care if he didn't even cross half court and not play defense, he gets a pass. He does not play this position. He has been forced to play it. He plays with poor defenders on his own team. Lots of them.

Of course he isn't going to shut him down. It's impossible to expect someone to keep that up.

So he tries to make up with it with fighting ahead of the post and poking balls away and spiking rebounds away.

I cannot believe that people are like "he was getting schooled". YEAH NO CRAP. He's had to carry the mountain he's only supposed to be climbing.

Like, come on. You are measuring him as though he's Etan Thomas or something.

Congrats, people pointed out he got beat. Amazing. Tell me why.

EDIT for TL;DR:

He's playing out of position, he's exhausted and beat up, plays with bad defenders and still is the best player on our team. He got beat a bunch of times, that's the natural result of what has been asked of him.

EDIT x2:

As President of the MBFC, I get a bit heated when it comes to criticism of him. I apologize. But honestly, you have to give him a pass. If we had even decent defenders and had Maliq having to play out of position, we'd be able to have doubles and quick rotations... but we don't. Maliq is doing this on an island a lot of times. It's not fair to him.
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