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Message: [QUOTE="OttosShoes, post: 5726523, member: 10231"] I don’t know that he was my choice, but over the past two years he has shown two things: 1. A clear upward trajectory. His career has momentum and if we miss him this cycle there’s a pretty decent chance we’d lose him forever and his success elsewhere would seed envy. 2. An ability to scheme defense. People are quick to dismiss the Duke game, but the way he mixed double teams with zone was expert and tactical and left even the Boozer twins looking lost at times. For a long team people wanted Boeheim to ditch zone thinking it was out of date. Gerry and half a dozen other teams this year have shown that zone is alive, it just needed an evolution that is arriving. His offense is, at best, a B-. The asst coach hire will be critical, but I suspect the relatively lower salary he is getting will give us our absolute choice there. [/QUOTE]