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[QUOTE="pearl31, post: 1280253, member: 1531"]
Grant is not 6'9 and has no back-to-basket game whatsoever. Southerland was a perimeter player that was allergic at times to mixing it up on the glass. Neither K.Josoph or Fair were natural 4s whatsoever but both played extended minutes there. And all of those teams were very successful teams, going against some very big/rugged opposition at times. A team simply does not need a hulking beast at the 4 these days in the college game to be elite.

"Compete on the glass with the big boys"? are the 10.5 rebounds per game that TR is averaging so far in the ACC an aberration? Do you really think there are many other teams in the country that can roll out a set of power players that NC does? Kentucky... who else? You seem to be basing your stance entirely on the 3-rebound number from Monday night.

Let's try it this way - please define what an "ideal" 4 for Syracuse would consist of - what his attributes would be. For me, in JB's system, we need one of the 2 forwards (whether he be labeled as the 3, 4 or whatever) be able to:

- Rebound at a high level
 - Be mobile enough to quickly get out on shooters and then recover back into the lane
 - Finish strongly through contact around the basket

The other forward, then, needs to be able to:

- Be a shooter/scorer, out to the 3-pt line
 - Handle the ball competently
 - Be mobile enough to quickly get out on shooters and then recover back into the lane
 - Provide auxiliary/complimentary backside rebounding

To me TR is CLEARLY more naturally adept at the first set of attributes than the 2nd - starting to do those things well, and will be doing them very well by next year.
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