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Message: [QUOTE="Chief00, post: 4227099, member: 11108"] What I am advocating is at least one more shooter in the starting line-up. I have no problem with playing two bigs, but in fairness during those years you almost always had at least two very good shooters on the court to start the game vs. one high shot volume type scorer we have now. Charlie V could shoot, Rash Anderson, D. Brown and of course Ben Gordon was a shooting lottery pick. So we almost always had two shooters on the floor. I love Hawkins game, but he’s a year away body wise from being a great one. I will say this about Gaffney, I remember he shot over 50% from 3 on Team Rio in the AAU circuit and shot around 80% from the FT. He can shoot and gives us another ball handler. At UConn, when he is comfortable, he has several games in double figures against the better teams we play. Chief also likes having another ball handler. And despite some putting him down that way, over his career Gaffney’s assist to turnover ratio is pretty good. Having said all that, I think Polley also is an option to give us more shooting in our starting line-up. All I can say, is we won’t get very far with our current starting 5 in post season. Too many very slow starts that make the game too difficult and the odds of winning diminished. We need at least a shooting threat. They wouldn’t leave Hawkins, Gaffney or Polley consistently wide open on the 3 line, which will give Adama space. [/QUOTE]