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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4388199, member: 37"] Only if players got into the paint, were taller than him, and our shot blockers were away from the basket. That happened but not as frequently as your statement implies. Cole was an above average perimeter defender. And an argument could be made that part of the problem in which his players were able to drive by him was because he was over utilized. That problem was mostly due to Gaffney and Diggens not able to be reliable backups. This was a miss in recruiting. I will asterisk this last statement by saying recruiting at any level isn’t easy but with all the restrictions and competition at the college level for a limited talent base plus the age factor in which the bodies and minds undergo major transformations (anybody with teenagers knows this) make projections of how a player will develop very difficult. [/QUOTE]