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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4990110, member: 71"] With Clingan and Castle gone our defense next year won't be able to replicate what we did over the final months of this past season. We need to accept this as seeing players capable of what either was capable of is rare and having both in the same lineup is likely a once in a lifetime occurance. There is no reason to believe that we cannot still be very good, while at a more mortal level, defensively this upcoming season. Defending is too much a part of Dan Hurley's personality. It is too much of what the staff teaches and the fan base loves . It is too important a part of the process of winning important games once we transition from winter to spring. Individually and as a component of the team, each player will develop to become as good of a defender as he can become from now through next season. We will need a different approach. We may play faster (to play to our current strengths), stressing a little more transition offense and defense as we may realize that our half court defense won't be what it had been. We may add more wrinkles to our half court offensive sets as we may have more scoring options than we had. The final scores of our games next season may have an additional eight, ten twelve points for both us and our opponents when compared to this season. Just because we may not be able to win in the same manner that we won this past season doesn't mean we cannot still win. [/QUOTE]