… Using our physicality, that’s our staple here.” 3. “That’s what we want to carry over from last year to this year. “I like to make my presence known and play physical,” he said. He draws a foul almost every time he’s in there, and eventually the refs don’t want to call them all.” I have to make sure he gets the fouls he deserves. “That’s going to be a standard for him,” Dutcher said. With extended minutes and an expanded role, expect him to be among the national leaders in the often overlooked statistical category. The national leader last season, Vanderbilt 7-footer Liam Robbins, averaged 8.6 per 40 minutes. Perspective: LeDee’s effort translates to 17.6 fouls drawn over 40 minutes. The next big off the bench got four fouls. He fouled out starting center Charlie Henderson in just 16½ minutes. Monday night, the 6-9, 240-pound physical specimen drew 11 fouls in 25 minutes against the overmatched Cougars, seven coming in the opening eight minutes and nine in the first half. Jaedon LeDee is really, really good at it. It is two letters in the expanded box score: FD, or fouls drawn. If our production stays high, we’ll play a deep bench again. We’ll play some guys, and if our production drops we won’t play as many guys. “You have to have depth to press all game,” Dutcher said. It means they’re not proven at this level. The five scholarship players who came off the bench Monday played a combined total of 165 minutes last season for SDSU. The other ingredient for an effective press is depth and, unlike last season, the Aztecs may or may not have it. “Maybe they were getting some of the same shots, but they weren’t going in because they were probably fatigued. “It’s hard to shoot the ball on tired legs,” coach Brian Dutcher said. They made five in the first and two in the second. The Cougars attempted 13 3-pointers in each half.

But mostly what it did was exhaust them, reinforcing the basketball maxim that the dividends of a press aren’t paid until the second half.

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