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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1770813, member: 405"] We lacked interior presence last year once we lost Diagne (or Thomas Bryant, or Chris McCullough). Any of them would have added about 3 wins to our team last year, just from the better interior defense. This year, we only have Frank returning at guard, and I don't think he's going to start, so that means there is going to be an adjustment period for Gillon and Battle to learn the defensive slides. If you recall a couple years ago when we were playing Kaleb Joseph and Cooney at guard, Joseph was poor at keeping his man out of the lane, and it made for foul trouble on our bigs (although somehow Rakeem Christmas managed to not foul of very many games). So this won't be our Best defense, but it will probably be very good by about January. [/QUOTE]