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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4704076, member: 12088"] And yet both of these teams fell short. Guard play turned out to be the difference, not the bigs. I know Geno has said something to the effect that you need a big to win an NC. But I’m not entirely sure what he meant by that, since his NC teams wouldn’t have succeeded without great guards. Did he mean that guards aren’t enough, or that you need some rebounding, or that you need an inside scoring threat to open up the perimeter? I’m not sure there’s an easy answer to this one, especially after last season. Both teams in the NC game were not powered by a big center. I don’t think leaping ability is as important as being strong for a C, and Ice is plenty strong, rather like Aaliyah. Being able to play them together ought to make the paint a scary place even for taller opponents. Leaping is more useful for small forwards like Aubrey, as it was for Maya the Magnificent. [/QUOTE]