Originally posted by 1cliveallen
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Season before, Luongo was 1st, Lansbury 2nd
I don't get where this idea was that he was inconsistent or not good, he's always been great and he's done a tonne more defensive work in the past. The thing is that we didn't have the creative spark who was being freed up by him because chery slowed everything down from open play. Now that Luongo is showing that he's a great offensive player, people are quick to lap praise onto Scowen who's just doing the job that Luongo did for two years already without any credit. I don't see anyone clamouring to complain about the fact that Scowen isn't scoring goals etc. His job in the side isn't to do that, same as how Luongo's wasn't to do that. Luongo's job was to win the ball and take it forward for the offensive players, which he did excellently, now his job is to win the ball, create, shoot, etc. Scowen's job now is to win the ball back and play it to the creative ones and he's lucky enough to have Freeman and Luongo to play to because it makes him look even better. If he had Chery or god knows who in front of him, fans would be quick to criticise his lack of attacking.
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