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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4804545, member: 1329"] I'm interested in what our approach is with Samson. Do we see some double big like we did against Indiana? Adams is a pretty natural candidate to guard with a big. If we play it like normal, we would constantly have fresh legs against Dickinson. That's obviously valuable. But it does allow them to pull our big away from the basket for back cuts and over the top of Karaban to Adams in the dunker's spot or on hi-lo's. That's a pretty big part of their offense. If we go double big, the benefit is pretty much always having a shotblocker in the paint or near enough to help, which could really slow down their offense. But we can't really do this fulltime since Clingan can't play very long in a row without a sub. This would actually let us maybe put Clingan "on" Adams (but really roaming), and let Johnson follow Dickinson to the 3pt line. If they want to try to find Adams for a lob, good luck getting it past Clingan. But since neither Clingan or Samson have shown an ability to successfully stretch the floor on the other end, we're then playing 2 non-shooters and limiting our playbook. We'd potentially have a big edge on the glass though, although we'd be crowding it a bit when Clingan vs. Dickinson 1v1 for rebounds should be in our favor. [/QUOTE]