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Message: [QUOTE="RayIsTheGOAT, post: 4294232, member: 6090"] This. With all due respect to some of the starters of our last couple teams, Hurley is clearly now building a roster full of guys who can score/shoot the rock AND also have size and positional versatility. This makes me VERY excited for this team, assuming he reels in Alleyne and Castle or someone of the like. Hurley+staff's biggest strength, outside of closing recruiting deals, I think is ability to coach team defense and rebounding. Some of these guys he's pulling in might not be A+ defenders, but they have the athleticism and size to be coached to do so. You can't really coach scoring/shooting ability nearly as well as defense. So you might as well target guys who have existing offensive talent and versatility, and coach them up to defend. It feels like Hurley was recruiting the other way around in recent years (emphasis on guys who fit his defensive intensity) and that gave us a hard ceiling in terms of offensive potential that we couldn't break through. I think having several of these guys with individual scoring talent- Newton, Hawkins, hopefully Castle and Alleyne will cover some of the flaws in Hurley's half-court offense.... and also open things up for Sanogo a LOT more. And we can’t forget about a year older Andre Jackson who could be a stud. If teams can't afford to double Sanogo because we have 4 interchangeable scorers on the floor outside of Sanogo, that's going to cause a lot of problems for other teams. [/QUOTE]

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