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Message: [QUOTE="Kembacity, post: 3354847, member: 3815"] I said it after the Maine game and honestly I think the coaching staff said the same things to themselves, Josh just needs to add fakes into his game and know how to time them and he will be not a monster but a guy who can get us 10-14 pts a night and more importantly draw fouls on the other team's bigs who think he's a stiff. He's always seemed to have good footwork and solid hands (at least compared to our bigs the last decade), but he's not an explosive athlete which is fine. If he adds genius timing with fakes to his already good footwork, he can be the kind of big that I feel has burned us for years with our focus on shot blocking. Not superb athletes, but just a nightmare to guard and try to block. Come in and do your spin move and when the defense thinks you're 100% going up with it, you put that fake up, get them in the air, and then bang off them and pop in an easy layup. I know Iona isn't Memphis, and he might not have his way with future opponents quite as much, but a big man who knows how to use a fake and move his feet without traveling, knows how to stay patient in the middle, he can feast on any team. The only kind of bigs that will still give him difficulty are talented and experienced bigs, Juniors and Seniors, which there probably aren't that many of on our schedule. [/QUOTE]