Cam Lard blocked shots. Was he a good defender?
One of Iowa's transfer thugs put up like 30 in the first half in Hilton one year.
Matt Thomas was put on him in the 2nd half. He ended up with 32.
I actually remember Georges guarding a lot of him in the second half.
It was not like White Chocolate was the second coming of Larry Bird and needed one of the better defender in college basketball to slow him down. He just had the best/luckiest half of basketball of his life and regressed to the mean the second half.
I'm not going to go back and look for advanced metrics to support an argument I don't care about. I just don't think there's miles difference between the two defensively
Upperclassman Matt Thomas...
Tyrus McGee...
PRPG! says Tyrus was a better player as a senior of the "four" above.
DGBPM says Tyrus was actually a better defender -- slightly, but yes, he was.
ORTG says Tyrus was slightly better on offense, too.
Both of them were dang good college guards, but Tyrus held his own.