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[QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 3358773, member: 485"]
A glaring weakness of the 2019-20 team was lack of inside defense, and on the other end of the court a lack of inside scoring. We got killed by opposing bigs, and we were too dependent on 3 point shooting because we did not get enough scoring from our bigs.  Marek and Sidibe got abused too often — out-weighed by 30 lbs each against most teams.

Foul trouble for Marek or Sidibe was a consistent issue, in part because they were not physical enough to defend without fouling. When either was in foul trouble, or both, we had no depth.

I expect these two to get a little stronger (not a lot, obviously) and improve their scoring.  Guerrier adds inside (compared to Hughes) as we saw against NC State, when Hughes was out.  He can be a force on the boards and he will get a lot better as a sophomore.  Add the other potential contributors (Braswell, Edwards, JBA, and Newton) — and at least one, maybe two guys will emerge to provide inside depth that we just did not have.  I don’t think we know or can easily project what these 4 will actually do in ‘20-21, other than we can see Edwards can be good if he can fill out his frame.
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