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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2214336, member: 40"] Well, then if one of the frosh nails down the 3 spot [per my bulleted criteria above], then that question gets answered positively. If it doesn't, things change. That's what some seems to have difficulty grasping--everything is always set in stone until circumstances change. We've got great depth and will go 9-10 deep... until a player or two get injured. So and so is a lock to start and play big minutes... until they fail to produce or prove not up to the challenge. JB wouldn't never sit a senior starter... until it happens. If Marek [or Oshae] are capable of starting at SF, then that solves a huge area of need for the team [love the potential of BOTH of these guys, and think that they might be NBA caliber talents]. I don't discount that possibility. But I will take a wait and see approach before just accepting that it will happen and is a given. Ditto Frank Howard. The board is really split on what the future holds for FH, with some writing him off and others expecting him to bounce back. We'll have to wait and see. Thorpe hasn't even committed yet, even though we expect him to, so penciling him into the lineup is premature. Howard will either shape up and show improvement--in which case he'll garner big minutes--or he won't and he'll be relegated to the bench again. However things unfold will determine if Thorpe starts, plays the 1, the 2, or comes off the bench. Until a few things clarify, predicting things with certainty is difficult. Last year there were people who were 100% certain that Battle was going to start at PG due to comments JB had made, that White was going to play the majority of time at 2G since why else would he come here but to showcase his capabilities for the NBA, that lottery pick Lydon was going to light it up as a 3, Frank was a possible early entrant candidate, and that Coleman was going to play big minutes at the 5. In the minds of some people, those things were set in stone -- until things changed. [/QUOTE]

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