opposing guards. He has no lateral quickness. I've been shocked by this. He was said to be this great defender.

Is it possible his defensive quality is limited to forwards/bigs, but he's been out of position assigned mostly small/quick guards? Is it possible he won't get back from injury?

I look at these games as the coaching staff testing out his recovery, and the news isn't good. If he doesn't get back his quickness in the next 3/4 games, he's probably going to be out of the rotation for Big 12 play. I see a guy like Crawford or maybe even Trey taking those minutes, Bosko getting more play as well.

Coming off what I believe was an ACL, he was certainly a risky pickup in the portal.

Also, he could have made up for this in part by deciding to become an aggressive rebounder, but he hasn't done that before, and it still doesn't appear he's so inclined.