And for those touting his shooting, just go rewatch the Kentucky / UCLA game where a team took away his strengths.
Ball shot 4-10. 1-6 from 3 point land and got to the line twice.
He has almost no half court game. He isn't quick enough to beat a player like Monk and get to the line.
Meanwhile Monk went to the line 15 times that game on his way to 39 points because Ball could not guard him one on one.
So essentially this comes down to you watched one game, the one where he played more than half of it with a tweaked hamstring and came away concluding he can't play? I'd like to see anybody guard an athlete like Fox playing with a tweaked hammy.
If you watched the game UCLA defended Fox the same way both games, go under the screen and make him shoot the jumper or runner. Both games he put up points but in the first game UCLA was able to keep him from constantly getting to the rim and in a breakneck pace game their defense held UK to 41%. In the 2nd game UCLA couldn't keep Fox out of the lane, he essentially single handedly fouled Welsh out(in 18 minutes) and UK shot 49%.
Let's rewatch the game, 45-42 Kentucky, Lonzo in transition pulls a long 3 pointer, Monk hits him across the shooting arm, the ball falls about 4 feet short is outletted to Monk who took off and laid it in 47-42. both announcers immediately pointed out Lonzo was obviously fouled on the play, and it not only took away a 3 pointer or 3 FT's, it gave UK a layup since virtually everyone except for Monk stopped because the foul was so obvious.
So that 4-10 1-6 only 2 FT's should have been 4-9 1-5 and 5 FT's.
BTW the guy you keep calling Monk is actually Fox. And for the record 10 of those 15 FT's he took were in the last 2 minutes of the game when UCLA was fouling to try and catch up.
But let's not let facts get in the way of a good debate.
