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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 5065363, member: 237"]
Here is a question I’m wondering about- what are his numbers purely as playing the 4 vs the 5? If Duke uses him as a small ball 5 is he as effective and more consequently how does he fair when he is being guarded by another 4 and is only guarding another 4? He feasted on causing problems for bigs when they had to try and make decisions against him away from the basket and is good with his hands when he switches.

As a 4 he will see different screening action than as a 5 defensively and will not have the same matchup advantages. It’s one thing we unfortunately didn’t get to assess for ourselves given our sparse frontcourt with Bennys issues and Naheems injury thus Brown was locked into the 5.

Using him in the short roll as a 4 won’t pull out the opponents big man so how does he fair in those situations. If he is going to blow up, which I’ll be very curious to see, will depend on him being as much of a matchup problem as a 4 as he was a 5 on both ends.
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