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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2711808, member: 1414"]
Yes it’s a nice benefit to have a 4 who can shoot and handle the ball.  The Celtics are playing that style.  But they obtained those players specifically for that system, and those guys who are 6’-8”-6’10” who can shoot, rebound, defend outside and inside and handle the ball are rare. They are rare even in the NBA. They are beyond rare in college. We don’t have any of them.  Polley isn’t one. He will get absolutely murdered trying to defend a traditional PF, as Larrier did last year. It was one of KOs biggest mistakes.

You are talking about guys like Donyell Marshall, Daniels, Burrell and Rudy Gay. All of whom were first round draft picks.  The last two of which mostly played SF for UConn. Cliff Robinson was probably our first guy like that and he split time between the 4-5.

You can run that system if you have the players and that includes having a monster rim protector at the 5 and oversized guards.  Hurley may be trying to recruit such a team, but he doesn’t have one now. It will be extremely difficult for him to build such a team.
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