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[QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 3815434, member: 34"]
There's small ball in height and there's small ball in basketball size.

Cole is a "short" 6.1".  He doesn't have a long reach and isn't particulalry quick.  If he can keep his man in front of him, he is an effective defender.  But he can't make up room once his defender gets a hip on Cole.

I'll assume you refer to Polley as the 6'8" PF.  Well, that PF averages 2.6 rebounds per game.  that's not a PF.  That is being the second tallest player on the floor.

Adams, Martin and Whaley are decent heights for their positions.

For those of you hoping for something enjoyable to watch while Bouk is out from a purist standpoint, prepared to be disappointed.  Dan Hurley's comments in the Courant this morning of not having a team capable of winning games if the score gets in to the 70's is all you need to know.  His math and the math he does with his staff says UConn can't score 70 ppg without Bouk.  They're all going to be rock fights.

I wasn't thrilled at the choice of using Martin as the player to win the game at DePaul.  Just having him back his man down and hoping his layups go in or he makes his foul shots seemed like a low percentage play, but it worked.  Against SJU it didn't.  Two games, two different results.  Get used to seeing plenty of Hurley and Adams as they are Hurley darlings.
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