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[QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 5395905, member: 16"]
Yes, getting George and Kingz is a step in the right direction. The talent pool is much closer to a top 7 ACC team than it has been in a few years.

That said, SU needs to take a long, hard look at the assistant coaches. This team desperately needs a coach who can teach man-to-man defense.

Yes, a lot of defense is effort, but this team has been lost on the defensive end for the past two years. Some of that is fast-twitch talent, but a lot of it comes down to coaching.

There won't be any coaching changes, but there should be. A top defensive assistant could help this team early in the year when they're still learning each other on the offensive end. I'd be okay returning to straight zone if it was as dogged as it was in the early 2010s.

But man-to-man with flashes of zone is the right move in today's college basketball landscape. There are too many great shooters who can stretch the zone to its limits.

I wish they'd be proactive on the coaching side because I have less faith in the coaching staff than in the team they're assembling. Hopefully, I'm dead wrong, and Red shows out next year.
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