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Message: [QUOTE="jordoo, post: 2235728, member: 569"] It definitely hurts to lose players to injury especially on a team that doesn't have enough scholarship players to practice 5 on 5 to begin with. That said Chukwu was a disaster out there. I will give him a pass with the eye injury and hope it happened before we saw him play and just got worse later on. What were the coaches seeing in practice that made them think he would be a contributor? He couldn't even figure out how to anchor the press which is hardly complicated. He PASSED the ball out while standing directly under the rim!!!!! He's 7-2 where else would he want the ball? Coleman has been injured his whole career. I love his attitude and work ethic but the staff should have planned for a possible injury and had to have known that laterally he was a liability playing the 5 on defense. Moyer would have been a huge help for practices and a possible option for Roberson's minutes that may have given us some offense but again the staff knew he might not be an option very early on because his injury happened over the summer. Now I hear JB talking about Chukwu being a big contributor this season and I think "that's scary". He's also talking up Howard which is again scary IMO. At least we have other options in both situations this year. The bottom line is that the staff did a poor job with last years group once they were assembled and then took far too long sorting things out. I'm not sold a healthy Chukwu, DC2 and Moyer make us any better because it would have been three more guys for the staff to sort out. Chukwu and DC2 were not as good as Lydon on D at the 5 and not a whole lot better than TT. DC2 did seem to provide a bit of offense and he always rebounded. Moyer was so far behind physically because he had a foot injury that didn't allow him to work out and practice. You could even say that Chukwu and DC2's injuries forced the staff to play they guys they should have been playing and to put offensive line ups out there. The staff should have identified this much earlier and perhaps they could have coached up the defense better from the perspective of who would be playing the most and what personal packages they would be in. :noidea: [/QUOTE]

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