Tuesday, May 13, 2014

What "new parts" do the recruits have to supply?

The main things Leroy Isler gave us was tough defense, and we already had on campus a successor to him in that role in the person of Stetson Billings. So, nothing to supply there.

In Will Neighbour we lost our principal inside scoring threat (although he did a lot of scoring from the perimeter). That has to be replaced. Obviously, James White is going to be our next Mr. Inside, but he will have to have some help. Someone is going to have to step into the role he filled. We badly need some depth at post, and that is where Andre Browncomes in.

Because of our injury situation, the recruits may also going to have to supply immediate depth at point. None of them is a pure point guard, but hopefully one of them can play point in a pinch.

One other thing we need from the recruits is instant offense off the bench, and I think we have that, particularly in in Reid and Roger Woods. In the past, when our principal scorers were out of the game, we were just marking time. Hopefully that will not be the case next season.

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