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Chop: I agree regarding Yurt. It seemed like the staff was really focus on getting abu worked back in, thinking it wouldn’t matter too much because we were going to win that game. Better to win closer than we otherwise would and have Abu more ready for ACC play. Fine if it works, but you’ve got to win the game.
Abu in there took minutes away from Yurt (who is scoring at will every time he gets a real touch), moved Dorn off the four (where he’s been stuffing the stat sheet) and really actually hurt us on offense (Abu loves that 18 footer), defense (that big Euro kid went crazy with 3s), and rebounding (despite our size advantage and shooting woes we lost the board battle). It is a situation where the +/- doesn’t reflect the flow of the game.