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[QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 5132582, member: 37"]
It's not just the inability of our perimeter players keeping their players from driving into the lane.  Ball and Mahaney are poor at rebounding.  That compounds the way Hurley wants Johnson to play on the defensive end.  In the second half of the UMES game Solo picked up a quick foul and was replaced by Ross.  The Ross, Stewart and McNeeley combination demonstrated, at least against a weak opponent, how effective Samson can be on defense with a supporting group that does rebound.

Per 40 minutes our player rebounding this year are:

Reed - 18.6
Stewart - 8.9
Ross - 7.6
Nowell - 7.2
McNeeley - 7.1
Abraham - 6.2
Johnson - 5.8
Diarra - 5.4
Karaban - 5.1
Ball - 3.2
Mahaney - 2.4

Having Johnson start with Mahaney and Ball was a recipe for disaster.  Isolating the problem with Johnson alone however does not recognize the team problem with that line up.  I don't care who starts between Johnson and Reed.  But I hypothesize that a line up with Reed, Mahaney and Ball will be its own problem.

[USER=1414]@HuskyHawk[/USER] was correct in pointing out the strengths of Johnson and Reed.  Now it's up to Hurley to configure lineups to maximize those strengths.
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