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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1919197, member: 40"]
Good question--last year's team lacked someone who could break people down and create off of the bounce consistently.  Gbinije could do it, but it wasn't his natural game.  Richardson did it intermittently [see:  UVa].

This year, we have three guys who can create off the bounce, for themselves and others--Battle, Gillon, and Howard.  Some of that needs to be proven in terms of how it fits into the team offensive concept, but those three CAN all do it, which will give our offense a dimension it generally lacked last season.  All three of these guys can get into the teeth of the defense and score in the lane, or create an easy look for an unguarded teammate on the baseline [if a big rotates over to cut off the penetration].  I'd expect we're going to get 3-4 more easy baskets per game based upon this capability alone--and anticipate that Lydon, Roberson, Chukwu, and Coleman will all be the beneficiaries of lobs / quick dump off passes for uncontested shots inside that weren't there last season.

For the record, I wouldn't expect Lydon or White to be the guys we'd want trying to make plays off of the bounce this year.

We'll have good to very good shooting, good floor spacing, adequate inside scoring, we should force a lot of turnovers which will lead to easy plays in transition, and we have the components to create off of the dribble for themselves and others that we've lacked the past three years.
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