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[QUOTE="Hurleyman216, post: 4827959, member: 3517"]
I realize they play different positions but I think you’re missing the big picture. What we did last year for AJax was set some slip screens along the baseline that gave him wide open lobs for dunks and it made the defense have to guard him tighter. Samson is perfectly capable of catching a lob (in fact it’s one of the only things he can do right now).

We can’t have him camping out in the paint getting 3 second violations while not moving because everyone knows we aren’t throwing the ball into him for him to post his guy up. He needs to be moving within the 3 point arc, mostly along the baseline with some flashes to the free throw line where we can play some pick and roll action at the top of the key. It’s all pretty basic stuff but none of it was done once Clingan went out. I get that the staff wasn’t thinking Samson would play 30 minutes a game, but we ran the same offense with Samson as we did with Clingan and that’s a big part of what lost us that game. They’re very different players and we need to run some different stuff when Samson is in there.
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