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[QUOTE="General20, post: 4835986, member: 724"]
If Benny can learn how to play defense it will help a LOT.   Brown is a good defender, he's got quick hands and gets a lot of steals, but he's not a good rim protector.  Taylor at the 4 is a good defender, he's really good positionally, and he's strong, he gets in your way and its hard to push through him ... but he's not a good rim protector.  Those two guys dont work well as a 4 and 5 combo.  Either one is fine but play both together and you are missing something important.

McLeod is a shot blocker but he doesn't seem to be able to play more than about 20 minutes a game, so we need another shot blocker out there.

Benny is a good shot blocker, he's tall, he can jump, he has long arms, he has good timing for it.  The big but in all this is that he gets lost in no-man's land on defense a lot.  We need him to be more alert and aware on that side of the ball.  If he can pull it off his shot blocking will help us field a more complete defense for the entire game.
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