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<blockquote data-quote="drew306" data-source="post: 1175930" data-attributes="member: 541128"><p>Well it takes height and weight too. When you are down your top two big men , leaving a team with only 1 PF and 1 C on the roster (and very average players at that, particularly on the defensive end), that is going to create a matchup problem against most Big Ten teams that John Freaking Wooden couldn't coach around.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And I'll add this as well. There seems to be a mythology developing in this thread that John Groce is a poor recruiter. True, he hasn't landed a top 100 PG or a true center. But lets not kid ourselves here. Have people already forgotten a guy named <strong>Leron Black</strong>?? I know he's done exactly nothing this year because of injuries, but he happened to be a consensus top 50 recruit. He's not a "stretch 4" as one previous commenter mistakenly posited, he's a true PF who could have been the best inch-for-inch rebounder in the Big Ten if he stayed healthy; I hope we see that player back on the court real soon. Or how about some guy named <strong>Jalen Coleman-Lands</strong>?!? Also a consensus top-50 recruit! For all the griping about the lack of "player development", Michael Finke seems to have taken quite the step forward, from little heralded recruit to offensive weapon as a Freshman, though he may be in for a rude awakening in conference play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drew306, post: 1175930, member: 541128"] Well it takes height and weight too. When you are down your top two big men , leaving a team with only 1 PF and 1 C on the roster (and very average players at that, particularly on the defensive end), that is going to create a matchup problem against most Big Ten teams that John Freaking Wooden couldn't coach around. And I'll add this as well. There seems to be a mythology developing in this thread that John Groce is a poor recruiter. True, he hasn't landed a top 100 PG or a true center. But lets not kid ourselves here. Have people already forgotten a guy named [B]Leron Black[/B]?? I know he's done exactly nothing this year because of injuries, but he happened to be a consensus top 50 recruit. He's not a "stretch 4" as one previous commenter mistakenly posited, he's a true PF who could have been the best inch-for-inch rebounder in the Big Ten if he stayed healthy; I hope we see that player back on the court real soon. Or how about some guy named [B]Jalen Coleman-Lands[/B]?!? Also a consensus top-50 recruit! For all the griping about the lack of "player development", Michael Finke seems to have taken quite the step forward, from little heralded recruit to offensive weapon as a Freshman, though he may be in for a rude awakening in conference play. [/QUOTE]
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