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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5527298, member: 722"]
In throwing out a bunch of stats in this post, all are in conference when referencing players who transferred from major colleges.

Putting the defense in perspective, last season, Jaquan Carlos led the team in steal% at 2.2, Cuffe was at 2.1. Nobody else was at 2% on the team. Third place was Majstorovic at 1.8%

McLeod, often injured, led us in block% at 7.3, Majstorovic was second at 2.1% and Chris Bell was at  2.0

We were terrible at stealing the ball and terrible at blocking shots. We were 18th in conference in blocked shots, 17th in turnovers forced, and 16th in steals. We gave  up the 15th most points, mostly because we didn't give up many second chance points.

Looking at the transfers in:

William Kyle at UCLA averaged 2.0 and 10.2
Ibrahim Souare at GT averaged 1.0 and 4.0
Nait George at GT averaged 1.7 and 1.8
Nate Kingz at Oregon St averaged 1.6 and 2.1

Putting those numbers in perspective, all of them blocked shots better than Lampkin last season. The worst of them, the incoming point guard, would have been fourth in last years team at Block%

The worst of them, Kingz, would have been the fourth best at getting steals on last years team.

We are going to be massively better on defense than last year, based on the talent we had transfer in.  It's hard to exaggerate how bad we were defensively once Freeman was injured. The only thing we did well defensively was rebound.

This years team is going to do all those little things that add up to defensive stops better than last year.
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