Again (for the 6th year in a row)...

jlprk · Oct 12, 2018

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The weird thing is, he hasn't always been like this. His second year at Illinois, he led the Big 10 conference in blocked shots. That's a pretty major conference and he had barely played as a freshman. When we drafted him, I thought we were getting an athletic shot blocker who was very raw offensively. Well, that's kind of what he was at the time.
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Stotts.

Boob-No-More said: ↑

He also blocked 38 shots his rookie year. That's not exactly Mutombo-like, but it's the most he's blocked in a season in limited minutes as a 20-year old rookie. It's also a lot more than ZERO.
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Stotts.

Boob-No-More said: ↑

It seems like he was told to stop going for the block and concentrate on verticality to cut down on the fouls. The thing is, he cut down on the blocks, but not the fouls (5.0 fouls per 36 as a rookie, 5.1 fouls per 36 each of the last two seasons).
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Stotts.

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For whatever reason, any shot blocking instincts he may have once had are long gone.
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I changed my mind. It's because he never got over that major growth spurt.

Rozay · Oct 12, 2018

Boob-No-More said: ↑

Click on the link I provided. I used the basketball-reference player season finder. You can search on anything you want and then sort the results by clicking on the column headings. You can specify a specific season, or range of seasons, player height, age, etc. Plus, the searches can be complex with up top five variables.

Here's the link to the search page:

https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi

Knock yourself out!

BNM
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That’s really cool

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