(02-09-2019 11:36 AM)TribeInTheBurg Wrote:  Nate has learned how to play good defense (including shot blocking) while forgoing a lot of challenges when he's in bad position. It doesn't take a lot to get into foul trouble, but he's shown a couple of times that he can adjust his play to the officiating and is able to play when he is in foul trouble. That's been a big part of more minutes for him this year.

Nate is a great player and has huge upside. He is maturing during this season. He is making dumb fouls less and adjusting. This does not offset 9 games this season that he has two fouls in the first half and averaged playing less than 12 minutes in the first half--our record in those games is 2-7.

Hope you are correct! Today's game with Hofstra is the time to start- the opponent he has his best career game against when at the Kap last year he dominated Gustys (who his coached benched) when Nate had 8 blocks, 31 points, 11 rebounds plus 2 assists while shooting 13-21.