Stand by it. All you did was show me an 11 game stretch where the team was horrible and his minutes increased from 19.6 MPG in the first part of the season to almost 35 MPG in the 11 game stretch of when he started.
I am not shocked his production went up when his minutes per game almost doubled.
Talley first 12 games: 19.6 MPG, 5.0 PPG, 2.8 RPG, 1.0 APG, 41.2% FG, 9.0% 3FG
Talley last 11 games: 34.6 MPG, 10.3 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 2.5 APG, 47.2% FG, 40% 3FG
His shooting numbers went up from poor to decent.
Other than that, he was pretty much the same player but was just getting much more playing time. You said he was junk against the early season cupcakes but his per 40 numbers are not that much different between OOC and Big 12.