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Message: [QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 5318612, member: 6979"] davis is too small to play power forward in the acc...hed be a good small forward but that role is taken, mostly. and he cant shoot 3s and small forward needs to shoot on this roster. mintz was decent defensively but gave up so many blowbys by his man i think eddie covers his man very well, generally...but his help defense is atrocious. on the whole, i agree that hes about the same or better at guarding centers than maliq...but the lack of rim protection is killing this team. as well as the lack of perimter defense. we miss the steals and easy buckets by brown and mintz but other than that, they werent really good defensively. brown was too small for center and mintz was too me first. starling isnt mentally all there on the court,...he kinda just floats around in a haze. his decision making on defense is like adhd or something. hes always nearby. he has improved slightly...but he only looks good because the team is so bad at defense. i mean this team is sooooo bad at defense...they give up almost exclusively easy shots to any decent team. theres just no resistance. i think the top 4 all having good plus minus shows that there are indeed combos that would work with these players...red just isnt creative enough or whatever to find them. he will get there...at some point, i suppose. cuffe and petar need to play for defense...but they dont do much offensively...they still need to play. petar though is too small for center...even though he is the backup center. hes pretty good at pf though...servicable at least, i like cuffe he just needs to reign in his shot selections and get locked in. overall, theres just too many holes on the roster. no rim protection. too many horrible defenders that cannot guard anyone. guards who cannot create shots for teammates. or stop opponents from shooting open shots. overall...the big problem boils down to: this team always loses the "shot quality battle" opponents tend to shoot easy shots and the orange tends to take difficult shots. this is where the frustration with the coaching comes in. some of it is the roster and the players themselves...but its also scheme and coaching. [/QUOTE]

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