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Message: [QUOTE="SlicinNDyson11, post: 4194985, member: 748"] Interestingly enough our starting lineup with Polley replacing Whaley is #5 in the country in adjusted offense against top 100 competition, the threat of shooting obviously helps open the floor up for driving and post touches for Sanogo. Replace Sanogo with Whaley with the same lineup and we're still 27th in adjusted offense still pretty freaking good. Obviously defensively there is a huge trade off, 250th and 180th in adjusted defense, we all know replacing one of our bigs with Polley hurts us on the boards and just overall defensively. It makes the lineup matchup dependent (see Polley getting attacked in isolations and our rebounding troubles in the first half against Creighton). That said these two lineups are 21st and 41st in net rating against top 100 competition, so we do have some good success with them. The lineup with Polley replacing Whaley is 2nd in the country in net rating when you include all games played. It's had less success in conference play (44th with Polley/Sanogo and 30th with Polley/Whaley in adjusted offense just in conference games) due to the physicality and familiarity of the conference. You would think this lineup would thrive in March once we get outside of conference play where games should be less physical and our opponents don't know us as well. Really good to have in the back pocket for higher tempo games and for when we might need a little more offensive firepower. [/QUOTE]