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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2007732, member: 40"]
I think you are overrating Roberson defensively by a wide margin.  He's never been a strong zone defender throughout his entire career.

I have no problem with your hard line stance on White.  White could be a difference maker as a shooter offensively if this team ran a structured offense that could get him the ball where he can be effective, because White cannot create on his own.  However, our guard play stinks, our offensive execution blows, and we don't run that kind of offense.  So White has struggled.

But again, this isn't about Roberson v. White.  Roberson isn't going to play out there in a lineup with Lydon and Thompson [or Coleman for one of those two] because he lacks the ability to play on the perimeter or do anything offensively.  All three of the other bigs can at least put the ball in the basket.  So JB is going with them over Robey.  Now, tbonezone brought up some really compelling arguments the other day about whether the rebounding is more important than other issues we're having.  That's an interesting discussion--especially given how sorry our rebounding has been.

But I don't view it as a White / Roberson issue.  Roberson has lost time because JB has elected to play Lydon at the 4 and Thompson at the 4 ahead of him.
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