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Re: Bigs for 2015 and 2016 (Who would you start?)

Postby LHS81 » Sat Mar 08, 2014 10:53 am

SMUer wrote:Frazier at center?


NAH! 5'9 Nic Moore is going to move from PG to the post.
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Re: Bigs for 2015 and 2016 (Who would you start?)

Postby OhioBrownFan » Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:00 am

Hell, maybe we can get the water boy to coach for Larry Brown next year...Should be a heck of a team
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Re: Bigs for 2015 and 2016 (Who would you start?)

Postby stangsup4 » Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:13 am

2014
SF: Sterling Brown
PF: Markus Kennedy | Ben Moore
C: Yanick Moreira

2015
SF: Sterling Brown
PF: Ben Moore
C: Elijah Thomas

Got Frazier backing up the 2 and we will always see one of Mudiay/Moore on the court. I would also not be surprised to see Crandall get a lot of minutes next year as a defensive specialist off the bench.
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Re: Bigs for 2015 and 2016 (Who would you start?)

Postby StandUp » Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:22 am

Another National Power, Arizona, plays 6'8" Aaron Gordon at the 3. Very similar size and skillset to MK. No perfect comparisons out there. Again, it is just good to know who National Powers play at the 3 if we want to be elite. Hope that LB starts to play more of our bigs together. This is an asset that LB really has not fully realized yet. We have depth at the 3, 4, 5. Most teams cannot matchup with us our today. Cannot wait for 2014 and 2015!

No doubt about it, if we need to play small, based on matchups Sterling Brown can play the 3 in a three guard lineup.
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Re: Bigs for 2015 and 2016 (Who would you start?)

Postby OhioBrownFan » Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:33 am

StandUp wrote:Another National Power, Arizona, plays 6'8" Aaron Gordon at the 3. Very similar size and skillset to MK. No perfect comparisons out there. Again, it is just good to know who National Powers play at the 3 if we want to be elite. Hope that LB starts to play more of our bigs together. This is an asset that LB really has not fully realized yet. We have depth at the 3, 4, 5. Most teams cannot matchup with us our today. Cannot wait for 2014 and 2015!

No doubt about it, if we need to play small, based on matchups Sterling Brown can play the 3 in a three guard lineup.

On what planet is Sterling Brown small? Jesus dude, he's 6'6, 200 lbs. And he's a 3, a SF is a big guard basically. Markus Kennedy does not have the skill-set in this century or the next to play the 3. If he ever got drafted, it would 100% positively be at the PF position. And I would put however much money you could possibly want on it. That's fact.
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Re: Bigs for 2015 and 2016 (Who would you start?)

Postby ClickClack » Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:37 am

StandUp wrote:Another National Power, Arizona, plays 6'8" Aaron Gordon at the 3. Very similar size and skillset to MK. No perfect comparisons out there. Again, it is just good to know who National Powers play at the 3 if we want to be elite. Hope that LB starts to play more of our bigs together. This is an asset that LB really has not fully realized yet. We have depth at the 3, 4, 5. Most teams cannot matchup with us our today. Cannot wait for 2014 and 2015!

No doubt about it, if we need to play small, based on matchups Sterling Brown can play the 3 in a three guard lineup.


you still don't get it, no one is saying someone who is 6 8 cant play SF. Its just that Markus does not come close to possessing the skill set to play SF. Think about this...Jalen wanted to play SF but LB didnt think he could play the 3 and wanted him to play 4. And Jalen is a hell of a lot closer to a SF than Markus is.

And by the way, a lot of the time Gordon is at the 4 for Arizona, especially since Brandon Ashley got hurt. Rondae Hollis Jefferson plays the 3, Grodon 4 and Zeus 5 with McConnel and Johnson in the backcourt.
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Re: Bigs for 2015 and 2016 (Who would you start?)

Postby StandUp » Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:51 am

No one said Sterling is small. Yes he is 6'6", but plays more like a guard, perfect 3 in a three guard lineup. Quick, active, can shoot the 3, plays good defense and even rebounds. If it even matters I was one of the first to recognize that Sterling had the ability to be a starter. I am ok with Sterling the 2 or 3. An incredible team-first guy.

Maybe MK needs to improve his skillset to play the 3. Become a better on ball perimeter defender, develop a more consistent mid-range game. But with a taller lineup in 2014 and 2015, MK will need to play the 3 in order to get starter's minutes. That was my point all along.

Still curious who you think should start at the 3, 4, and 5 in 2014 and 2015?
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