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[QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 1192381, member: 485"]
Ennis, Fair & Grant were terrific as the core of last season's great run -- can't take that away, despite the 3 and 6 finish.  And Keita was an outstanding defensive C off the bench, who won't be replaceable.

The issue last season was that these guys (and Cooney!) had to carry the load every time out.  They wore down.  They were predictable.  There wasn't much in reserve.  The three sons weren't ready.  The team was in top form in November and where was the improvement from there?  Maybe Grant got better over the course of the season -- who else?

This team is also very thin -- a dangerous lack of depth in the front court, and the kids (Chris & Kaleb) need to prove durable.  The team needs to defend the paint and keep Rak out of foul trouble.   It can run -- it should be able to press to get back into games.  People write about shooting -- we don't need more shooting from deep if a couple of players in addition to Rak can score inside off drive moves or get short pull-ups.   More concretely, Gbinije, Patterson, McCullough, Roberson need to provide scoring off drives (Joseph is a given), in addition to whatever they can do from the outside.
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