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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 3409761, member: 237"]
The other thing here is that through the course of a season, those strength gains can be lost. You get into the later part of the ACC and heading into post-season and some of that muscle and strength that has been lost can most certainly have an impact on the body and you start to see that cumulative fatigue more noticeably. A stronger Joe is going to be important for him to stay in form later into the season. All you need to do is look at Gerry. He really started to wear down due to that amount of minutes he was playing and carrying the scoring burden. It wasn't his style to go crazy adding muscle in the gym. Thus with Joe I think it will definitely be beneficial.

The other side of this is being able to deal with the physicality at the top of the zone while teams consistently attack it by screening it. His defense wore down the same as his offense did by season's end. He wasn't a great defender really at any time but the 3s both he and Buddy were responsible for really hurt us.

It is also clear hat Joe is not going to be confused for Jason Hart or Jonny Flynn getting up and down the court. Thus he needs to be able to be stronger when he gets into the paint. It is clearly a part of his game as it was in HS. It also something he had mild success with but struggled at times all the same. He hit some floaters and that stop and pop or turnaround mid range jumper but otherwise most everything was outside the arc.
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