Sleezipari is the "genius" of the dribble-drive offense. Jay Wright fills that slot for 3-point offense. Jim Boeheim is the guru of zone defense. Each facet of the game these days seems to have at least one coach who is an expert at it, who has hung his hat on that aspect of basketball. But wait! What about the poor goliaths of the game. Who is the advocate for the big men? Who these days is an "expert" at the use of big men? Who needs to be, since except for miscellaneous support functions they are almost irrelevant?
Maybe it will be big Patrick Ewing at Georgetown. He certainly knew how to do it himself. Maybe he will revive the big man in today's game and have the sort of success his old coach did. And base it around big man play. Wouldn't that be novel?
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