Agree to your point that Kanga does a better job of blocking the middle on defense. However, the +/- indicates that while he is doing that, vcu is still outscoring us by 13 more points in the 12 minutes he's playing.Riley had 32min to Kanga s 12, +\- doesn't tell the story especially on D when he blocks 2 shots has 3 rebounds but more importantly blocks the middle where +\- doesn't take into account. I guess we will agree to disagree on this point.
Mason isn't scoring enough when he's in the game to take advantage of his good defensive skills because we're not getting points inside when Riley is on the bench. That allows the vcu players to play tighter on our perimeter players.