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Jun 17, 2022
8:14:18pm
icecougar All-American
There were games last season where I think we should've inserted him in the..
...game for stretches as a defensive specialist to cool down a hot scorer and be a distrupter/agitator. Have him go out and do what Draymond did in game 4 of the NBA Finals.

The Vandy game comes to mind where we let Scottie Pippen Jr get hot late in the game and take it over. Tell a hungry/eager player like Stewart "here's your chance to earn some minutes. Get up in his grill and don't let him touch the ball. Get him so flustered that he wants to take a swing at you. As long as you are doing that I'll keep you on the floor until you foul out."

Could've done the same thing with Jalen Williams of Santa Clara or Nicquel Blake of Pacific (put up 20 pts on us in their upset win) or to harrass Tommie Kuhse in the loss to SMC (Kuhse hit 25 and carried their team to the win) or on Shabazz in the WCC tourney loss to USF. Stewart wouldn't make a difference in games like vs Gonzaga but a lot of the games we lost to other WCC teams or to Vandy, in most cases, we needed that one guy to come off the bench and electrify the team, rally the troops. We typically weren't getting that from Knell, Erickson, Knight or Johnson (we did sometimes from SJ).
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