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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 143550, member: 40"]
You took a casual comment that I made a bit too literally, if that's your point.
 
As for ostensibly not fitting the system, he fits in all ways but one. This team lacks a hard-nosed, aggressive power forward. A blue collar player like Crowder fits the bill. I didn't say that Boeheim should have recruited him, or that I wish he was on our team. Just that given how rebounding seems to be our main achilles heel, that a player with his tenacity would be an asset. And with his offensive versatility, he wouldn't have an issue fitting into our system.
 
I agree that he doesn't have the length at 4 that Boeheim prefers [the lone measurable that doesn't fit the system]--he's certainly no Hak. But we spend a lot of time with two 6-7-ish guys playing the wings in the zone. Crowder is about their size [and even given your point above about him being 2 inches shorter, he's one of the top, most effective 4'2 in our league--that allegedly 6-5 guy had 8 rebounds against us today and hurt us all game on the offensive boards]. And given that he has no problems playing man-2-man for Marquette or moving his feet to cover guards on high switches, I don't think that he would have a problem spacially covering his assignment in zone.
 
If you don't feel the same way, then I'm cool agreeing to disagree.
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