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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 4198807, member: 1001"] I've been saying for two years that Martin is a great smallball four, the problem is we don't have the remaining personnel to make that lineup work consistently. Diggins not being ready and not bringing in a transfer PG is killing this team. After the Maryland loss last year I said that the '21-'22 team would struggle if Diggins wasn't ready and that came to fruition. We simply need more ballhandlers/penetrators/point guards. In terms of a small lineup we can play for extended minutes, we really only have... Cole/Hawkins/Jackson/Martin/Sanogo Cole/Hawkins/Polley/Martin/Sanogo ...and the problem with the Polley lineup is that it's going to get destroyed defensively by dribble penetration. The other problem is that Hawkins is still wildly inconsistent, though he's come on the last couple of games. We can't leave Gaffney out there for extended minutes, nor Diggins, obviously. It hurts badly. A team that only has one point guard is going to have limitations. If we had a reliable second point guard it opens up options with Cole off-ball more. Diggins/Cole/Hawkins/Martin/Sanogo Diggins/Cole/Jackson/Martin/Sanogo Diggins/Cole/Polley/Martin/Sanogo As much as we all love Whaley, he is not the player he was the two previous seasons. Akok was supposed to be a nice stretch 4 option that gave us flexibility but that poor kid is never going to be the same after the injury. Separately, looking forward to next year, what's Karaban's style of play? In the few videos I've seen of him he looks like a slashing stretch 4. Can he shoot it? I don't think I found a clip of him taking a jumper. [/QUOTE]

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