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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4931872, member: 6696"] 1) The player Clingan would guard in this nightmare scenario does shoot over 35% from 3. It's a good thing we don't grade homework anymore. It took me a 5 second Google search to learn that. Disappointing effort. Do you think I'm not going to look? 2) But, please, let me get this straight. What you're suggesting is: [LIST] [*]Clingan guards 6'5"-6'6" 210lb Reese Dixon-Waters. [*]Karaban guards the freakishly athletic 6'9 240lb Ledee instead of guarding his natural position. [*]Clingan parks himself in the paint to block shots in the help-side and leaves his man (a >35% 3-point shooter) open. [*]Clingan closes out and defends the drive on a back peddle when his man catches the ball. [/LIST] What you're describing is putting Alex and Donovan in exactly the WORST matchups for them. It makes less than 0 sense. Alex is terrible at guarding big, strong athletes who punish you at the rim. That's exactly what Ledee is--a bigger, stronger version of Hopkins or Dixon (who we had Clingan guard, btw). Clingan hasn't had a primary matchup of someone under 6'8 his entire collegiate career. I'm guessing that's for a reason. If you haven't noticed, asking a 7'2 behemoth to backpeddle and guard a slasher off the dribble 1v1 doesn't usually go very well. Why again wouldn't we want him defending their center and helping to block shots if they slash to the rim? [/QUOTE]