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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5081175, member: 722"]
My hope is that our defense uses a lot of help close to the basket... Lampkin puts a body on the  offensive player inthe post, and usually we play him straight straight up.  Trust the shots are going to miss often enough, and will get enough of the rebounds with this current team.

Sometimes, though, Freeman or Bell can serve as weak side shotblocker on Lampkin's guy, or one of the guards can sneak down to poke the ball away without leaving their guy open for threes.

Generally, though, Lampkin is going to be hard to get post position on... He's just strong enough to push guys into positions where they're not comfortable.

I'm hoping that Lampkin is consistently able to get good position when he's the secondary defender when his teammates get beaten of the dribble on the perimeter. He's not going to fill the Fab Melo, Chukwu or even Edwards role as a great shotblocker.  But he can play the Rick Jackson, Onuaku role of denying space and making them shoot tougher shots.  Having to worry about Lampkin Mountain will make it easier for other guys too get blocks or steals from opponents dribbling to the middle of the defense.

Lampkin's bigger weakness will be if smaller guys try to get him moving laterally in space.  Then it's a  contest to see if he can abuse them in the post  more effectively than they can score on him at the perimeter. Or we zone for some possessions to reduce Lampkin's exposure.

There is so much you can do when you've got the biggest guy in the court, especially when he's an all around good passer. My bet is that we can outscore teams trying to play a smaller guy against Lampkin most of the time.
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