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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 4160496, member: 716"] As far as the talent gap, sure, but he was a 4 all the way, and a pretty perimeter-oriented guy at that (more a rich-man's Blackwell than a Wallace). And while Boeheim kept us competitive with talent and cohesion at 1 through 4 during those years, it seems like it was always our lack of depth at the 5 that ended seasons early and prevented us from getting past UConn in the conference. Other than Magloire, I don't remember too many recruiting targets we struck out on, and we obviously didn't have any great bigs matriculate and then not pan out (Eric Williams, Bobby Lazor, Charles Gelatt, those guys weren't really difference-makers). To win that many games over that time period with such a glaring weakness was really remarkable. [/QUOTE]