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Message: [QUOTE="Chief00, post: 4839677, member: 11108"] I think with Samson he just needs to not over commit defensively on screens 20 - 25 feet from the basket, which then puts him out of position for defensive rebounds. We miss not having the strongest dude out there every game ( Adama) and the guy we have to try to replace that is out (Donovan). I do feel Castle and Newton combined do help make up the difference with toughness, but just don’t have the length against 6-9 kids. If Adama had come back this season would have been very different I believe in how we handled Donovan’s foot recovery. We don’t really have a Big muscle back up with Donovan out. I guess we are trying to make that happen with Stewart. One lesson here is on the elite level we need to have the Double Big as either part of our starting lineup or at least key rotations. Without the Double Big scheme if we have two good bigs it is viewed as a zero sum game for playing time. [/QUOTE]