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[QUOTE="VaBeachOrFan, post: 1025381, member: 1274"]
Most posters are worried about the lack of experience coming back, but are overlooking a mostly hidden factor that Trueblue touches on. . . paragraphs 2 & 4 above.  Last year's team had to function well in a half-court offense because that's the way Ennis played.  Cooney got hounded because defenses had plenty of time to set up for him and take him out of the game.  Mike G and Christmas didn't shoot, for the most part, and Keita couldn't shoot, so everything came down to CJ and Ennis.  SU's legendary transition game was put into mothballs, and players like Roberson, who would likely have been beasts in an up-and-down game, never fit in.

Throw all that out for next year.  Joseph looks like he'll serve up a steady diet of broken ankles, and if he's as capable of pushing the ball up-court, he'll enable those "athletic freaks" you speak of play in their comfort zone.  And if SU can make frequent open court plays, that will allow Cooney to get open and in rhythm for his threes, making him better as well.  I see . . . possibilities.:)-VBOF
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