Originally Posted by
Newton_14
No offense Wheat, but there is a lot of hyperbole in your post. By your own admission, you only saw a handful of Duke games, mostly the big ones. Up until the first UNC game, Duke made a concerted effort to get the ball to Mason and he had success, including against big frontlines. During that time, the only thing preventing Mason from averaging 15 or 16 points a game was horrid foul shooting. Mason certainly has more that one post move. He was good with the baby jumphook with both hands, as well as a more conventional hook/jumphook with his right hand. In the Virginia game, and a couple of others, he was effective catching it at the left side of the foul line and driving hard to the basket to finish or draw fouls.
He also scored on baseline moves with reverse layin's or dunks. Up until the 2nd week of Feb, Mason was having a really good year, with the exception of the free throws. Ironically, he improved greatly at the foul line from late Feb on, but Duke stopped going inside and started relying heavily on the 3-Ball. The lone exception was the last UNC game, where Mason had one of his better games of the year, almost exclusively in the 2nd half, where he took it to Zeller and Henson time and time again, scoring 17 points on 7/13 shooting in just 24 minutes.
It is fair to say that from the first UNC game until the end, Duke stopped going to the post, and started relying too heavily on 3 Point Shooting. The talking heads on the media ran with that, but it was not reflective of the entire year.
To suggest that Mason has not developed in his 3 years, and does not have a single post move is just a ridiculous statement to make, and not even close to reality.