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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5450418, member: 405"]
I'm not making that argument anywhere here, that we don't have the right guys.  I'm saying we're missing a piece to be considered "complete".  Not that some mythical player is going to "make us".

Just like last summer, I was saying we needed a stretch 4/5 Euro kind of player to fill out our big man rotation, and then we got Petar Majstorovic.  I was very happy with the pickup, because he filled a slot, he was a missing piece.

We knew Eddie couldn't shoot the 3.  Donnie as a freshman [U]should[/U] have been used closer to the basket than he was, but wasn't.

Petar played in a professional B league in France, kind of about on par with Fennell's competition in Australia.  He has some shifty moves along the baseline, he had a viable shot from three.  He played big, if a bit slow. But he gave us fouls and defense and many useful minutes while he was here.

I'm just saying, we need [I]somebody[/I] who can make a shot in the low post.  This shouldn't be that controversial.  It could be one guy or another.  It might be Kyle. It might be Sadiq.  I've already said that 5 times.  SOMEBODY has to be able to do it.

Or it will just be a different version of shortcoming - not having a rim protector last year, but we did have a low post scorer to set up the rest of the offense, when everyone was finally healthy later in the year.  You need to have BOTH.

I'm happy that we appear to have the defensive side this year, or at least enough bouncy guys to throw at that role.  You have to coach both sides of the ball.
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