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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5664016, member: 405"]
I totally agree.  If you look at Donnie's stats, in particular, he gets a lot of rebounds, but they are almost exclusively defensive ones.  Same thing with Will Kyle. For all his hops, he gets very few offensive rebounds.

Now, part of that is the structure of the offense.  I've seen him play a half dozen possessions of hi-low post for the entire season, the game when Donnie started on the bench.  Sadiq and Kyle had some nice passes with White in the low post.

Doesn't happen with Donnie in there, because he's mostly up high, or at the elbow.  Kyle up high setting screens, too.  We have nobody down low to get offensive rebounds.

As for the effort gap, I thought the point of having a squad that is deep and athletic (and we do have that ...) is that you have to use effort as the minimum ante to get in the game.  You don't hustle, you turn away from a guy running to the hoop on a fast break, then sit the hell down.

Red just doesn't seem to be tough enough to be a head coach.  You have to break some eggs to make an omelet.
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