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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 2167409"]
Moyer has a year under his belt learning the zone, which is more than White had, and both Brissett and Moyer are more agile than White ever was.  You're right that we don't know what their effort will be or how long it will take Brissett to get into the swing of things, but I'm optimistic.  White hurt us a lot on defense.  It was overshadowed by his offensive efforts, but he was not a good defender most of the season.

Frank is inconsistent.  He played D well when his head was in the game.  He could obviously go either way.  I'm chalking up TT's issue to not knowing what the heck he was doing on D, hopefully meaning it's not going to be a consistent effort issue going forward.  We will see.  He has the tools to defend well but needs to show that he can learn and apply what the coaches tell him.  I'd imagine this will be almost the sole focus of his development in the off-season.

Washington's D doesn't matter a ton because he won't be on the court much, but I've heard that he gets after it on defense in high school/AAU, so mindset shouldn't be a problem.

Who knows what Chukwu will do; I think offense will hinder his playing time and productivity more than defense.  Sidibe is going to be the starter at some point, I think, so Sidibe is the one that we need to focus on on the defensive end.  He's recruited as a shot blocker and moves very quickly for his height.  I'm optimistic he'll play the middle of the zone well by the time conference play roles around.
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