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[QUOTE="General20, post: 43429, member: 724"]
I think that the Melo/Keita combo will be fine defensively and rebounding.  I think they will both improve a lot physically and be able to hold their own with any inside combo we come up against this year.

As for post scoring.  I dont think we will have a lot of it.  AO and Jackson have spoiled us by being absolute go-to options in the post for the last few years.   Most college teams dont have that.   UConn did not have a go-to post option last year and they won it all.  There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Honestly, I do think that to win it all we will need Melo to get hot and play great in the tournament.  But we will be good this year even if we dont get a lot of scoring from our big guys.

Another person to be considered when thinking low post scoring is Fair.  He wont be a low post scorer in the traditional sense, but, he tends to be in the right places under the basket and get a lot of easy points - and that was as a Freshman.  I can tell you, from watching him several times in high school, that there are depths to his offensive game we did not see next year.  He had an Edelin-esque floater in high school that I think we will see in college before its all said and done, among other tricky ways to score around the basket.
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