Not playing out of position would help. Everyone commits some questionable fouls at times (and I think Tobi's relative newness to the game doesn't help with that), but it's a lot easier to not foul if you aren't trying to body up someone with 20+ pounds on you.
DL sent him 47 dms between 1 and 4 am, which helped him make up his mind.
Yeah, pace of our bigs fouling is very problematic. I didn’t follow closely but might if be lack of size as much as positioning? Most A10 bigs seemed to push us around. The only big above not mentioned is Wheeler. If he had gotten serious minutes he’d likely been sitting by half most every game.
More like "fouled out" by half. Dude seemed to be trying to pickup fouls.
Also, Tobi doesn't back down from anyone, even if he is at a size/height disadvantage. He competes. And frankly gets called for some things others don't, maybe because he has to put more effort into moving bigger guys (or to not get moved) than those guys do into moving him.
He gets called a lot, but he also excels at drawing contact and makes most of the resulting free throws. You don't often see that level of toughness.
. Tobi works his tail off. If he does find himself in foul trouble it’s because he’s had to slide down to the five due to Fermin’s ineffectiveness and Wheeler’s inability to get on the floor. We absolutely must retain Tobi and bring in help at the five.
I love Tobi as well and certainly hope we can keep him. He does commit questionable fouls because of his lack of basketball experience. But more than anything he is a competitor and wants to stop/contain his opponent. Unfortunately he does not have the weight in his lower body to stop a bigger player and thus uses his upper body which almost always will result in a foul. What most impressed me about Tobi was his screening down low so Zeb and Bam and others could get to the basket. That is as pure a team play as one can get and he developed it on the fly this year. Love the commitment.