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Message: [QUOTE="reedny, post: 1284692, member: 1423"] Comment removed. As to your reference to the round mound of rebound, obviously it's not just the height, it's the weight, as well, for rebounding. There are many examples of this in the OBE, and some this year. Jerome Lane was a pretty good rebounder at only 6'6 -- but he was 230 -240 and a beast. So was Shane Behanon ... both had the muscle to play PF even though they were "undersized" in height. You saw what Mitchell did from G-Tech, early this year. Kid is just slightly taller than Tyler, but goes 270. No surprise, he had 11 rebounds (TR had 4). We went -10 on the glass and barely got out of there with a 1 point win, thanks to Rak. Then there's the shot-blocking: TR basically gives us none (averaging a half a block per game). CM averaged 2. Since you played "college" ball, I assume you recognize the difference. And I assume that you can figure out that it's better to have two guys that can post up, rather than one, because it makes it easier to get the ball inside without having to wait for the the post player to keep switching with ball reversal to stay on the strong side. And I'm sure you also recognize that it's much easier for a 6'10" player to get tip-ins/put-backs than a 6-7/6-8 200 pound guy, as it is for the bigger player to score with a baby hook or drop step (which we've seen from CM but never TR). And when we face the big teams we're headed for down the stretch (no, it's not just UNC), these differences are going to show up again and again. Pitt's going to throw Uchebo and Young (6-10/6-9) at us, and Louisville is going to have Onuaku and Harrell, and Notre Dame is going to have Auguste and Burgett ... it's goes on an on. And in pretty much every case TR is undersized to compete on the glass, and we're going to go -10 or -15 on the boards ... usually a sure-fired recipe' for loosing unless your team is efficient offensively with a deep bench (we have neither). So for about the 10th time, other than smallish teams, mostly OOC or the bottom half of the league, where we can get away with an undersized PF, it's painfully obvious that we're far better off with the player, if healthy, that JB had in there in the first place. Why is it such a problem for you to concede the obvious? [/QUOTE]

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