Ummmmm....I appreciate your attempt to highlight Nelson’s career games, but that’s cherry picking at its finest. So he had a very nice 25 minutes to end the 2019 season as a freshman. The significance of making improvements from freshman to sophomore year is usually quite indicative of how a player’s career with a program will go.
So let’s dissect the 4 games he had the most playing time after Maryland (not including Prairie View). It was against those juggernauts of Georgetown, DePaul, Marquette and St. John’s in 2020 (the bottom 4 teams of the Big East) where he logged the most time:
52 minutes,
4/9 shooting for 9 points
11 turnovers
8 assists
1 rebohnd
And the brutal defense. Not sure where you see him rise to the occasion. Am I missing something? That’s pretty quality time to judge. I wonder what his defensive and offensive efficiency actually each were for those 4 games.