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[QUOTE="jordoo, post: 2235746, member: 569"]
I hear you and I agree that depth was a big issue last season as was lack of muscle on the front line. I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to have those things. I'm more or less saying the guys we had that got hurt didn't provide all that much in the way of defense and they didn't provide nearly as much offense as the other options. Last season we had three players that provided offense but were really bad defensively. (Gillon, White, Thompson) We had a player that provided no offense but was decent on defense (Roberson). We had a player that for whatever reason lost his game on both ends (Howard) Then we had two players that were good on both ends (Lydon, Battle). That was the rotation and it simply didn't have enough guys who were plus contributors on both ends of the court. Zone defense can hide one bad defender and make up for a couple average defenders but it can't hide three bad defenders. Coleman and Chukwu give you two more guys that were at best one way players. Chukwu zero offense and his D was debatable other than being 7-2. Coleman some offense but his D was very limited because the injuries killed his lateral movement. Moyer if he had been healthy all summer is the only one that may have been able to provide a plus player on both ends last season. That was the real weakness of last years squad, too many one way players.

That is one reason to be optimistic of this years squad. All the guys we brought in look to have the size and athletic ability to at least not be poor defenders in our system. They also all have some offensive ability so we have that going for us.
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