KeonBackinTO

How are teams going to defend Bosh, CV and Bargnani?

Easy play small ball cause none of the 3 dominate downlow, all play more of a perimeter game except Bosh who relies on beating big guys off the dribble.

The Raps will have more trouble defending the small ball lineup then the small ball lineup will have of stopping the tall lineup of 3/4s.

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well detroit could, with wallace,wallace,hamilton,prince they got a few options but it will be pretty challenging

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not sure how we're gonna make it work without a vital contributor like hoffa to take up 2.5 mins/gm in the paint. we'll find a way, i'm sure...

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Bring Ben Wallace out of the paint and he looks bad, really bad.

KeonBackinTO

thats not the point. You dont need a C anymore but you cant have slow (for SF) players and a C that cant dominate down low and expect to be dominant or great.

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CV, Bosh, and AB will dominate down low if guarded by smaller guys. And if guarded by bigger guys can step out and shoot the ball.

southeasy

yeah its simple...then we have bangers like nesterovic, humphries & garbajosa, rebounding forwards like graham & tucker.

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If all 3 reach their potential(or most of their potential), then it'll be very hard for ANY team to stop the Raps from scoring. Chris Bosh is hard enough to guard right now, if AB becomes what Chris Bosh was this year(which he could be but with more range), then you guys should be dominant.

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What are you talking about? He's better than 90% of big men @ defending guys on the perimeter. He's a very versatile defender. He could guard small forwards too.

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Only concern is how are the Big 3 going to defend other teams.

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Quick tough players who'll push the Trio to throw a lot of contested jumpers.
A relentless guard on the PG to prevent him from finding one of the Trio in a comfortable situation.
Shortly, it will be hard yet possible.

The problem, as noted here, is how these guys will at defense, most problematic is perimeter, of course.

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I don't know......when you have mismatches like you describe, I'd go with the big's as the one's who will utimately prevail

Look at the past few all star games (before last year when Shaq came over to the east). The East was dominated by Guards, where the West featured a wealth of talented big men. The East guards ran laps around the Western big men, but the Western confernce Bigs would just dominate at the bucket, without any pressure.

In the end the games were fairly close, but the west ended up taking 3 out 4, where the east's one win was a 1 point victory, in that exciting 2001 game.

I'd go with the tall lineup everytime.

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Unless a team somehow gets hold of Kevin Garnett, Shawn Marion, and Tayshaun Prince, I don't think anyone can properly defend this frontcourt. Most teams have a fixed defensive stopper, a guy like Marion or Bruce Bowen who will defend the other team's best player regardless of position (unless he's a big C). But no team has 3 such players, which is why the Raptors should be an extremely dangerous scoring team.

Unfortunately, the Raps are still screwed unless they learn to play some good team D by November. The additions of Nesterovic and Tucker are steps in the right direction, but the team as a whole still needs work.

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