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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 5066356, member: 837"]
The elephant in the room here is defensive system and structure as well as who replaces Brown. For the Brown piece of things, losing a good defender won't help a bad defense be any better. So if his minutes go to McLeod and Lampkin -- sure there's a good chance we're a bit tougher and bigger inside, but how do we defend in switches on the perimeter? My guess is there's a chance that's a mess.

As far as the system, we spent a good 1/2 the season struggling to figure out how to defend a high ball screen, which is the basic staple of about 99% of college offenses. We weren't great with help as it was, but when someone did help, we struggled with secondary slides. We had guards chasing plays from behind far too often when an opposing guard curled off a screen on the wing (god help us if a team also had a screen ready at the top of the key. If that happened the challenge for the opponent was deciding whether to take the wide open three or the wide open layup.).

I thought Red might go out and try to find longish athletes and build an identity as a disruptive M2M team. We didn't do that. That's fine, but with the potential of Bell, Lampkin and Starling playing big minutes ... I certainly hope our defensive approach is adjusted significantly. Otherwise, yes there's a chance we could actually be worse defensively.
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