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Message: [QUOTE="PAHusky, post: 4496800, member: 3807"] Change for the sake of change isn't necessarily the right answer. You play two bigs last night and Karaban doesn't get the minutes he did. He was our second best player. Does that make sense? Playing the two bigs together doesn't fix our biggest offensive problems, which are our guards inability to get by anyone at the perimeter/get to the rim and our dismal 3 point shooting. Instead, especially if we play with AJax out there, it kills our spacing. AS is not a good enough passer to make a high/low big game work. Playing with the three of them means we have two guys at most on the court who can shoot from outside 12 feet consistently. Playing them together on defense also doesn't help. On offense we can't get by anyone on the perimeter; on defense we can't stay in front of anyone. I think the answer is zone. I don't think the answer is asking Sanogo to play out on the perimeter while DC anchors the paint, as I think it will immediately put AS or DC in foul trouble and won't be effective against most BE teams. Unfortunately, I don't think the solutions to this year's problems are fixable. This team needs a guard who can break the defense down and get a bucket when no one else can. Without that, we're entirely too predictable as everyone is a one trick pony (AS is a black hole in the paint, Hawk shoots 3's or drives straight at the rim, AJax is scared to shoot, Joey C = 3, Newtown is a poor man's Hawk, etc.) [/QUOTE]