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[QUOTE="Jasoncuse, post: 1679345, member: 470"]
Next year's offense will again be pretty bad, I'm guessing.  Assuming both Lydon and Mal are back, which they should be, I'm not sure we have any other real offensive threat to count on. Hopefully, Battle is ready to go right away, and maybe Roberson finds some semblance of an offensive game, but overall, next year looks like a struggle again.

Of course, this was about the defense and who knows what Chukwu can provide. He's 7'3", so there's that built in fallback if his position is bad, but he's another skinny guy that may need some added to acclimate to the zone. Coleman isn't the answer and we've see the interior D and rebounding suffer because he's playing in quicksand. Where we hopefully improve defensively next year is on the wing. I've thought Malachi has been pretty solid defensively, but he's also been bodied out of the way and just can't hand with true big guys. Not his fault. But Roberson has been an absolute trainwreck as a wing defender. If he is going to play any significant role next year, he has to clean this up. If not, I expect Moyer to get a chance to play a lot with Lydon as the other wing and Malachi and Battle/Howard up top.

On paper, the defense and rebounding should be much improved over this year's bad unit, but who knows.
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