Originally Posted by TA111
Which team are you referring to? Villanova didn’t have a true center and Loyola played much of the tourney with 6’6” Jackson at the “5” spot. And neither team had what you would call a true shot blocker. The key to their defenses was to keep penetration to a minimum. Of course if you have a kid like Bagley at Duke you’ll be helping yourself. But even he is a multifaceted player who can drive it and shoot from distance. The game is evolving.
You are going to see more and more teams use the 6’7”-6’9” kids as floor stretchers as opposed to back to the basket players.
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I still think we all would have liked to see how far UD basketball would have flourished between 2016 and 2019 had Big Steve (RIP) been able to continue to display his back to the basket moves and setting a career blocked shot record which would never have been broken!
