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Message: [QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 1615457"] Patterson was not particularly good at anything. Backcourt defense is low on the list of weaknesses (I'd call it a strength) that this teams has. He drove to the hoop okay, but his ballhandling wasn't special and he didn't finish too well. Howard plays good defense at the top of the zone and he has better offensive instincts and ability, imo. BJ was billed as a 3pt shooter and we saw flashes, but his percentage was really bad here. I think he could have improved that and been a decent role player but nothing more than that. His defense was a liability. His presence might have cut into some of Cooney's SG playing time (Mal would be the one to move to SG), but I think it would have been more likely that he'd just get Mal's leftover minutes at SF, with Cooney staying in the high 30's. The team's 3pt shooting would go unchanged; not sure about drives to the basket; BJ didn't do that often, iirc. [/QUOTE]