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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4251596, member: 71"] I will be stunned if Clingan and Sanogo see anything more than nominal minutes on the court together. Clingan will spell Sanogo next season as he grows into playing at this level. Hurley prefers having four face the basket players on the court at all times. Both DC and AS are close to the basket players who would get into each other's way and clog the lane for any of our wings trying to slash to the basket. This would work as well as when the Knicks tried playing Ewing and Cartwright together. I do believe however that we will be set at the five for a number of years. I recently (BET at MSG) ran into a friend who's opinion carries immense weight with me (he's a good amount older than I am, was a quality HS player in the early 1960's; was a legendary small school college player, had good level coaching roles in the state for many years). His first comment on DC was that he was more skilled than you would expect from someone who had always had such a significant size advantage. But he also warned that DC's conditioning is not at the level necessary to play D-1 basketball but this is common with bigs. Clingan should develop into a high quality big but I'm not sure that it makes sense to expect too much from him as a freshman. [/QUOTE]