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Message: [QUOTE="6Nattys4Us, post: 5149873, member: 13819"] Combination of no Clingan or Castle and having shorter guards coupled with players needing to up their defense. Clingan - would block 7 a game if teams kept going to him (like Illinois thought they could) - so his presence means "most" teams would be shooting from outside. Castle - we have Ross, but he's nowhere close to the level of D that Castle brought. Hopefully he and others improve. Shorter guards - what we did to Purdue with Newton and Spencer is what teams can do to us with Diarra and Ball. Teams with 6'5" guards can shoot over ours and/or drive without the fear of Clingan. We need help trying to block their 3s and teams are setting up a lot of high screens just for this. Overall lateral quickness needs to be more developed, better coordination on high screens and hopefully players can get better on 1:1 defense skills. It will get better but those are some improvement areas. [/QUOTE]