Ben DuBose

He crashed the glass.

He was a shot blocker.

And...

I think with Jabari, that's the presence you need from him.

And he's just 22 years old.

This isn't necessarily shocking.

I mean, it happens to a lot of young players.

But I just think with Jabari in specific, because he's not really much of an offensive creator, when the shots don't go in, it's easy for him to get down on himself because he doesn't really have another reliable way to score.

And when he gets down on himself, you see it in the defensive metrics.

Yeah, I would have as well.

I guess Jabari took some of them.

But as far as the points about his ankle, I mean, his ankle looked just fine on the poster he had in the fourth quarter.

So he was able to explode then.

To me, it's just a continuation of what we've seen really since December.

I feel like when this team really struggled a month ago defensively, now by and large, with a few exceptions, they picked it back up this month.

But...

it was Shingun not defending the paint to the level he did in October and November.

And the silver lining is he's done it before.

I thought last year in particular, he was very good and at times an anchor for this defense.

But for whatever reason,