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Message: [QUOTE="Gabjon, post: 296024, member: 990"] [B]I'm having difficulty getting your point. Are you suggesting (as NMs like indicates) that you think that for JB to put Rak into the PF position last year (when he wasn't ready), that it was not in Rak's best interest? Do you really think Rak would be better served practicing PF in the Melo center and not playing there during the games? That Rak is exposing himself as a PF fraud, and if he only didn't play someone would draft him?[/B] To be clear, I am hoping Rak makes it as a PF. I like that he is being groomed for this position. It is best for him and SU. IMO, it would be premature to abandon this plan. If the plan succeeds SU will be among the handful of schools that can throw those kind of talented bigs at you. I think Rak's time at PF last year will not be in vain. That it is part of the learning process and we need to be patient to get the fruits of that effort. To the other Gabjon, the earlier personality, the one who said earlier in this thread "I'm a big believer that our players should play their NBA positions as many minutes as possible". I think that position needs to be tempered as well. For instance, I do not want Dirty trying to learn how to play the 2 here at SU, even if it is his only shot at the league. SU is not a means to an end. If the move does not benefit SU in the short or long term then I do not want to see it done. SU is not a farm team for the pros.[/quote] No the comments you are referring to are not about Rak's ability to play the 4 they are in response to the idea that of James playing the two. I essentially was agreeing to your earlier post but trying to be polite about it (not that you need to) and I for one do not believe James will ever be a SG here or in the pros, and just because some fool in Minnesota trying to make Wes into one doesn't anything. By the way all wing players work on there guard skills in practice in every school in the country that doesn't make them guards. There is no other Gabjon it's just the post did not post properly. [/QUOTE]

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