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Message: [QUOTE="Colin G, post: 4458689, member: 4427"] Defense and Depth. [LIST] [*]Even without Whaley this team just has so many ways to neutralize the other team's best player/ whoever is hot on that team. We lost the seton hall game 90-87 last year because we couldn't stop Kadary Richmond, we almost lost to st Johns bc we didn't have an answer for Champegnie. We had a really hard time guarding teams that had bigger guards and we didnt have multiple options for stopping them. Now we have at least 3 people we can put on a good opposing lead guard (Hassan, Jackson, Tristen). We also have a better defensive answer to stretch 4 prototype players (whaley was better big defender imo). [*]Spacing is much better without Whaley out there he was an awkward fit in last years starting lineup offensively. Karaban. at the 4 and the 4 guard/wings surrounding clingan/sanogo just works better. I think the awkwardness of the whaley/sanogo fit is why we haven't seen clingan/sanogo as much at least offensively. [*]Depth. Calcaterra, Alleyne, Diarra, Clingan off the bench is YEARS better than Akok, Hawk, Polley, Gaff off the bench last year. [*]We have answers to teams, we are bigger at the point guard and better defensively. We also have many more guards, one could argue RJ Cole/Hawkins were the only true guards that played meaningful minutes last year. With Gaff out there it was only when RJ was exhausted and needed a breather [/LIST] [/QUOTE]