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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 804005" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>If we assume our 5 most talanted are the following. </p><p></p><p>Sturdivant, Smith, Devoe, Coleman, and Usher. You wouldn't be trading the third best player. You'd be trading your 5th best, likely one of Sturdivant or Smith. And the issue is not only would they be the 5th best, they'd be the 5th best providing something the line up already has. Diminishing returns is a thing and whoever is worse between the two will just be filling similar roles and so their addition, even as the 5th best would be less. While we played with 2 PGs last year it was primarily more 1.5 with Jose and Mike, especially as the year went on, because we learned that Moore's defense was more valuable than Bubba's ball handling. </p><p></p><p>As far as the Michael Jordan thing goes, it's a nice quip but MJ wasn't going to play center. Knight knew that, but what he said sounded better than, "draft MJ and trade whatever scrub you have at SG for a solid big and you'll be better off". </p><p></p><p>Small ball worked for us last year because we had a combination of Jose and Moses who were 4th year extremely experienced players, and both great individual defenders. While ball pressure played a big role in how we prevented teams from exploiting our weakness, Moses played a huge role in that as well. Neither of those are back, and with our 5 most talented we don't have the same level experience either in the ball pressure or in the post defense. Also while it worked to a decent degree, I'm pretty sure it was our worst defense under Pastner. It's just the offense was by far and away our best and the difference worked in our favor.</p><p></p><p>Also, and we saw this last year, you can't really just plug in one of the bigs when you're getting punished by a bad match up. If the defense is geared around playing that super small lineup then suddenly putting in Howard or Gigi for whoever would require both that individual to come in ready to play, which makes little sense to believe would be a thing, and you would need the other 4 players to be able to adjust which is extremely unlikely with the limited practice time in college. Could it work despite that? Sure. Maybe Deebo is just a bigger Steph and Smith is the second coming of AI without the attitude problems. Even then though, we'd still be better off with Howard/Gigi over Sturdivant (and probably that's even more true the better the new players are). Because it's not about the 1st or 2nd starter. It's about the 5th starter, and that will almost always be more about what the team needs than strictly individual talent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 804005, member: 2299"] If we assume our 5 most talanted are the following. Sturdivant, Smith, Devoe, Coleman, and Usher. You wouldn't be trading the third best player. You'd be trading your 5th best, likely one of Sturdivant or Smith. And the issue is not only would they be the 5th best, they'd be the 5th best providing something the line up already has. Diminishing returns is a thing and whoever is worse between the two will just be filling similar roles and so their addition, even as the 5th best would be less. While we played with 2 PGs last year it was primarily more 1.5 with Jose and Mike, especially as the year went on, because we learned that Moore's defense was more valuable than Bubba's ball handling. As far as the Michael Jordan thing goes, it's a nice quip but MJ wasn't going to play center. Knight knew that, but what he said sounded better than, "draft MJ and trade whatever scrub you have at SG for a solid big and you'll be better off". Small ball worked for us last year because we had a combination of Jose and Moses who were 4th year extremely experienced players, and both great individual defenders. While ball pressure played a big role in how we prevented teams from exploiting our weakness, Moses played a huge role in that as well. Neither of those are back, and with our 5 most talented we don't have the same level experience either in the ball pressure or in the post defense. Also while it worked to a decent degree, I'm pretty sure it was our worst defense under Pastner. It's just the offense was by far and away our best and the difference worked in our favor. Also, and we saw this last year, you can't really just plug in one of the bigs when you're getting punished by a bad match up. If the defense is geared around playing that super small lineup then suddenly putting in Howard or Gigi for whoever would require both that individual to come in ready to play, which makes little sense to believe would be a thing, and you would need the other 4 players to be able to adjust which is extremely unlikely with the limited practice time in college. Could it work despite that? Sure. Maybe Deebo is just a bigger Steph and Smith is the second coming of AI without the attitude problems. Even then though, we'd still be better off with Howard/Gigi over Sturdivant (and probably that's even more true the better the new players are). Because it's not about the 1st or 2nd starter. It's about the 5th starter, and that will almost always be more about what the team needs than strictly individual talent. [/QUOTE]
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