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Message: [QUOTE="reedny, post: 1389963, member: 1423"] I don't think your numbers are way off, except some of the freshmen may not play in conference games. And you and Pearl may think I'm playing Eeyore today. But even if we get all that scoring from the starters and bench, we have some defensive issues. First of all, we're going to get toasted up top. We have the same guys returning ... and they got burned at will by the league's better guards last season. I know I'm on a pessimism roll here, but I don't see any reason for a major transformation of our perimeter defense. And I think our interior defense will be significantly worse without Rak and CM. Yes the zone can mask size issues somewhat .. but that's not going to keep us competitive with the better teams in the ACC. We're short, unathletic, inexperienced and thin inside. I don't know how you mask that with zone defense, especially when your front line has no returning starters except a 6-7/205 "PF". [/QUOTE]