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Message: [QUOTE="JustbrewitMan, post: 5097619, member: 7806"] I think Solo stands the best chance to assume the role of Castle on this year's squad. Yea he's not as tall, but he's much more athletic and has the ability to body up and battle big guards and small forwards. He was all over the place in the URI game, forcing steals, disrupting passes, crashing the boards. The things he needs to still get better at (that Castle excelled at as the season went on) are on-ball defense and creating offense. Don't sleep on Ross as someone who may be able to be an additional big guard stopper as needed vs. certain teams (without a significant dropoff in offense vs. say Diarra or Mahaney). Mahaney or Diarra can't assume the role of Newton but they don't need to. They will (especially Diarra, we've seen it already) disrupt via ball pressure. Overall, I'm confident our defense will shore up and adjust for the differing skillsets for our 24-25 squad compared to 23-24. In the Hurley era, we always end up with above-average D as the season wears on. How scared were people about our defense after watching open practice/the first few games last year when Cam was on the court? Yet, he turned from a liability to an asset as the season went on. ! [/QUOTE]