Originally Posted by steve
While I agree that DD turned the ball over quite a bit, as he was just not strong with the ball, it's hard for me to agree that DD drained last year's team emotionally. From where he was earlier in his career and even thru his junior year, he had an overall excellent year...
DD is who he is and you simply find very very few to turn around their fortunes in a single year the way he did and be forced to be THE GUY and THE leader.He was neither of those things, nor even close, his first 3 years. He was not all of a sudden going to be a strong physical player nor was he going to all of a sudden be strong with the ball. Personally, he had a much better year than I thought he was going to have..
Defensively is what cost them. Terrible perimeter defense on the 3 ball and even worse dribble penetration allowed.....That automatically improves, imo, this coming season....
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I know he drained ME emotionally. I thought I also saw that on the court.
Agree on your other points. He made a huge leap jr year to sr year. He just has holes in his game that hurt us. DD clearly didn't sync up well with AM and staff and was a much better fit with AG and staff. Based on the large leap he made I'll always wonder what 4 years in AGs system would have done for him.