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Message: [QUOTE="bendm, post: 4510605, member: 9151"] Chief has been the biggest proponent of the "double big" concept but he's not articulating how it would actually work on offense. So can you explain how would it be different than last year when we had to pair whaley and sanogo? the board was almost unanimous in it's contempt for that double big pairing as it almost always resulted in our "10 pts in 10 mins" slow starts. So riddle me this. Clingan needs to be within 5’ of the basket on both ends of the floor to be effective, so what would sanogo's offensive role be when playing next to him? If Clingan is in the game there would be an automatic double on sanogo whenever he catches the ball down low. Either because Clingan is on the perimeter setting a screen but his defender isn’t bothering to guard him, or because Clingan has brought his defender into the paint thereby bringing an extra defender into sanogo’s vicinity. So it seems like sanogo would be forced to stand in the corner shooting 3s when Clingan is in the game and that’s not how to effectively use our leading scorer imo. Whaley was more athletic and a better midrange shooter than either sanogo or clingan, and the double big pairing still completely gummed up our offense, so how would this be different? [/QUOTE]