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[QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 3069984, member: 4819"]
Impressed with the tape on Aviles, it looks super promising. Best part may have been the fact that he covers offense, defense and facing-off.  Offensively he looks like a bigger, but not as fast version of Curry, the way he holds his stick, and the aggression in which he attacks the cage.  Looks to have no problem going behind the back, the one "knock" I could point out is he looks a little out of control in some of the clips - which makes for great highlights, but he may not get away with it in college.

But honestly the biggest thing he may bring to the fold is his face-off abilities, more specifically, his offensive prowess he brings to the field after he wins a faceoff.  SU hasn't had a FOGO with offensive skills since Jeremy Thompson was on the team.  Obviously the Orange have two good FOGOs in Phaup and Varello, but they showed some weaknesses at the end of the year, and having another guy to rely on would be huge. Also neither Phaup nor Varello were any threat to score when they won the ball.  FOGO's are of course the hardest position to predict (Phaup really came out of nowhere last year), so it's really hard to know if Avilies can make the transion, but I think that would be his best chance of seeing the field early.
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