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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5103851, member: 722"]
The biggest need was rebounding (and size in the middle, a little bit of the same thing).

After McLeod was injured (and secondarily Williams was kicked off the team a few games later) we went 10-8.

We were out rebounded in 16 of those 18 games.

In our 10 wins, we averaged a deficit of "only" 4.4 rebounds. In our losses, we averaged a 12.9 rebounding deficit.

If you take out the crazy 94-92 Win against Louisville, where we dominated literally every stat but rebounding (a crazy-19), the average of rebounding deficit in the other 9 wins was only 2.8.

We desperately needed to be able to rebound to get wins.  McLeod and Williams were our two best rebounders by defensive rebounding % and with them gone we couldn't stop anybody.

Lampkin, Freeman, Davis and a healthy McLeod goes a long way to helping that deficit.

Playing bad defense is one thing... Playing bad defense and also giving the other team extra tries every possession is a killer.

I have faith our defense this year will be bad, but that at least we will collect our share of rebounds.
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