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[QUOTE="0.2 YNdeeR, post: 5005074, member: 8125"]
Brown is a talented player and a humble young man. He's absolutely good enough to play major minutes, some at the 5 but most at forward. It's great to hear that he's planning to return. This year, because of injury he was forced to bang for 35 minutes OOP against low post anchors of premiere ACC programs - UNC, Duke and (more recently) Clemson. Even against V-Tech, without help it was difficult for him to stop the opposing center (Kidd 6-10). So of course the staff is looking for a 5 who can start and give us 25+ minutes of inside scoring, rebounding and rim protection (Naheem and/or Patterson to back up). This will not only solve an obvious weakness in our roster but also allow Maliq to grow as a scorer.

Those arguing he's aok in the middle ala small ball lineups on NBA rosters ... as a Knicks fan I don't see the comparison. Just for one NBA example, the Knicks have Robinson (hurt but 7-0 feet), Hartenstein (7 feet) and Sims (6-10 250). Thibodeau almost always has a big on the floor, as do most of the NBA and college teams I watch. Is there situational "small ball", yes. But that isn't the ONLY lineup successful teams put on the court the majority of the time at any level. We just got stuck this year.
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