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Message: [QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4498792, member: 4173"] If you’re not comparing anything, then I don’t know what conversation you’re in . . . And neither do you apparently. You have made the point repeatedly in this thread about starting Sanogo and Clingan together (in your 1st post) that Calhoun did it all the time for 2 decades. So that’s why we’re comparing. And the bigs in question are Sanogo and Clingan - the first a big, muscular, burly player and the other 7’2”. Both play a back-to-the-basket low post game. So, those two are the point of reference for what a “big” is in this conversation. If you think that Cliff Robinson and Jeff King in any way resemble Sanogo and Clingan, and if you think that Calhoun’s use of them together is in any way a precedent for playing our current bigs together, then I can’t help you and don’t know who can. Did you not see those guys play? Now for the facts. Cliff Robinson played in only 16 games in 1986-87. Jeff King started with him 15 of those 16 games, so they started together for about half a season. If that’s thet’s the season you want to use to show that 2 bigs can be successfully deployed together, don’t. It was a disaster, 9-19, 3-13/last in BE. The adjustment that Calhoun made going into 1987-88 was to end the experiment of playing the 2 bigs together. Instead of starting King, he brought him in off the bench. It was better, but they still had problems, again finishing last in the Big East (20-14, 4-12 BE). [/QUOTE]

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