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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5761156, member: 722"] That's the thing though, a quality roster, coached well, can absorb those "grenades." Look at Siena last season. Lost their starting center 9 games in, lost their backup center to a concussion, had a few other more standard injury troubles, and then lost a second starter to Disqualification a week before the conference tournament. Because of quality depth, they were able to overcome the early injuries. Then, GMAC went full JB and had an ironman 5 starting at the MAAC tournament, which they won. All you can do is stack talent, manage personnel, develop your reserves, make adjustments when adversity strikes and coach the kids you do have well. I got a lot more excited about GMAC being a coach when I learned about how much adversity he was able to win through last year. Many teams would have crumbled, but Siena actually seemed to get stronger as the season went along. [/QUOTE]