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Wake just gave up 95 to Clemson

Most observers believe Brown will start on the wing with Crawford and Woods. Childress, Wilbekin and a player to be determined in reserve.
 
Yes, Brown will take Arians minutes plus some
 
Most observers believe Brown will start on the wing with Crawford and Woods. Childress, Wilbekin and a player to be determined in reserve.

Moore and Sam should get the bulk of the minutes at the five, but I could see Dinos getting minutes there too, especially if Wake went "small" with the three mentioned starters plus one of this year's frosh, melo or a (transfer) grad student to be named later.
 
Dinos and Austin cannot play defense against anyone who is remotely athletic. This is a huge problem in certain match ups such as Clemson. This has to be fixed because there are plenty of teams with athletic 3’s and 4’s. Additionally if they can’t guard their man, the other players collapse to help on every dribble penetration leaving 1 or more shooters wide open at the 3 point line. It is a snowball affect that makes our defense look foolish. So having said that, those two players are a liability if they are not hitting threes or getting rebounds. In Clemson they did none of the above. So no points and no defense from both of those guys equals way to much pressure on everyone else on both ends. Desperately need some athleticism to supplement the shooting.

If you look at the tough ACC losses we have had, almost all of them involve us getting lit up by the other teams 6-5+SF.

Clemson: Blossingame
Syracuse: White
Duke: Kennard
UNC: Jackson
Notre Dame: Beachem/their whole team.

Hard to argue that Brown wouldn't have helped tremendously in that regard. Even if Collins leaves our defense should improve drastically next year.

I trust Manning to figure out how to make the offense work without him.
 
We desperately need Melo and/or Donovan to be a plus wing defender and small ball 4.

A small ball 4 would free up Dinos to play the 5.
 
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