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Message: [QUOTE="kcc1442, post: 2711993, member: 2577"] Nova won a championship mainly because of what I am stating. That every player on that team could shoot the 3. They spaced the floor better than any team that I can remember in the last decade. 1-5. Not because they had a guy or two that could rebound. Yes rebounding is important. More fundamentals and want and will though. We won a championship with DD as a pick and pop specialist as our 4. Nova when Paschall and Spellman weren't in the game at the same time played with Bridges at 6'7 205 as their 4 man. Length, will, and fundamentals on rebounding is more important than brute strength. My biggest point of this whole matter is that their are NO more 4's in basketball on successful team that can't shoot it from outside. Go look at ANY NBA team stat page. If they don't shoot the three they are a 5 (and there are less and less of those anymore) or a PG ala Rose, Kyle Anderson (their are very few of these) that are main facilitators and distributors to the 3point guys. Hence, we need a guy like Polley for our 4 spot. Yes he needs to get better at rebounding but we do not want a guy in the mold of a Diarra, Yawke, etc. in order to be highly successful in todays game. Now could we win some defensive battles if the aforementioned Diarra et al. could defend on the perimeter well enough, sure maybe but not enough against good competition. [/QUOTE]