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Message: [QUOTE="cuseincincy, post: 1265970, member: 331"] Agree entirely about the soph class. What is unfortunate is the timing in that they are not ready when they are needed. Normally I don't give any excuse about players leaving early, it happens at most of the top programs and you have to be able to deal with it. But SU lost 2 players it shouldn't have. Say all you want about the money blah blah blah bull$h!t. They weren't ready to leave. Ennis and Grant are nowhere near the players MCW & Dion were. Then subtract 2 5*'s in Coleman and McCullough and here we are. BJ's age is not an excuse. Neither is his weight. Plenty of skinny players are able to play well in D1. He's not getting it done but likely will keep getting chances, he's the only guy on the bench that can play . Patterson is playing some pretty good defense and made a beautiful dish to Rak when he drove against Clemson. What really hurts is how really bad BJ and Buss are shooting. Can't have your bench players shooting 25%. Basically we have a 5 man team right now and 2 of them should be coming off the bench. I know many of you think freshmen shouldn't play early and like experienced players. Well get ready for next year when Richardson, Diagne and Lydon play big minutes. If they can't come in and immediately play ahead of BJ and Buss SU is in more trouble than I thought. Roberson is the only one I give a chance to staying in the rotation. He's a rebounding machine and as I've said many times he is tantalizing close to breaking out on offense (I hope). Sooner or later though he has got to stop missing such easy looks. I really don't think it is a matter of recruiting projects so much as they recruited role players. But Obokoh and BJ are not providing even the roles they were recruited for. I would say that Buss is filling his role. The problem is SU needs more than that from him this year. I mean lets be serious, we have 8 scholarship players suiting up for the remainder of the season. The "end of the bench" is in the rotation. Now, before I go to bed here is how I see things working out next year: PG - Joseph, Gbinije SG - Cooney, Richardson C - Ummm, Diagne, McCullough PF - McCullough, Roberson, Lydon SF - Gbinije, Richardson, Lydon That's the 8 man rotation, 3 of them freshmen. Huge HUGE hole at the 5. I can't bring myself to project anything about Coleman but he obviously has the potential to fill that hole. Bryant would look nice there but he's just a wish right now. If have either Coleman or Bryant then Lydon falls out of the rotation but I doubt he redshirts. Patterson would be the next most likely to get minutes unless Howard shows a handle, a shot and can play enough defense. LGO! [/QUOTE]

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