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Message: [QUOTE="ConnEd, post: 4970308, member: 895"] I’m not so worried about putting out a lineup of smaller guards. TNew and Spencer could both be beaten off the dribble. But when that happened, DC was usually there to negate the advantage, and the guards were smart enough to rotate to the uncovered player or to recover as the penetrator hesitated looking at the mountain in front of them. We’ve seen great success with smaller guards before when they are excellent on-ball defenders. That’s Hass. Solo has the potential to be one, and Nowell looks like he has those skills. And, with it being unlikely that we will have a giant eraser behind them to negate them being beaten, it will be more important to have very good on/ball defenders who aren’t easily beaten on penetration. The good news is that the guards we have fit that mold. [/QUOTE]