I like Bilodeau as the sixth man, with Dailey at the four with either Brown, Perry, or Williams at the three. Dailey is a lot more efficient and physical. However, Bilodeau would be a good boost for the offense off the bench as he doesn't quite have the physicality to hang with the Julian Reese and Vladislav Goldin type players.
ah, I have an actual disagreement!! :-) You may be correct because of Mick's loyalty but in terms of minutes played, I expect Brown to earn the majority of minutes at the 3 spot and Dailey to get many if not most of his minutes at the 4 spot. Your logic on Bilodeau taking 5 or 10 (if Jamerson doesn't prove out) at center makes sense. And no doubt Mick will play Eric at the 3 at times but he does so at the expense of his team's best defense.
He may well be willing to make that trade off but imo it's important - defense is the core of what he's built his career around. I get that he feels pressure to lean more on offense but to me that's a big tradeoff in this case because we've all seen Dailey struggles guarding opposing wings and Big Ten teams have now seen us for a full season and they will see a three step strategy to beat us: 1) try to overpower us in the paint; 2) kill us from the wing positions; 3) utilize their perimeter quickness and ball rotation to get - and hit - open looks from outside the arc. Playing Dailey at the 3 exposes us to that middle strategy which a number of teams will actually have the personnel to exploit.
I like Bilodeau as the sixth man, with Dailey at the four with either Brown, Perry, or Williams at the three. Dailey is a lot more efficient and physical. However, Bilodeau would be a good boost for the offense off the bench as he doesn't quite have the physicality to hang with the Julian Reese and Vladislav Goldin type players.
ah, I have an actual disagreement!! :-) You may be correct because of Mick's loyalty but in terms of minutes played, I expect Brown to earn the majority of minutes at the 3 spot and Dailey to get many if not most of his minutes at the 4 spot. Your logic on Bilodeau taking 5 or 10 (if Jamerson doesn't prove out) at center makes sense. And no doubt Mick will play Eric at the 3 at times but he does so at the expense of his team's best defense.
He may well be willing to make that trade off but imo it's important - defense is the core of what he's built his career around. I get that he feels pressure to lean more on offense but to me that's a big tradeoff in this case because we've all seen Dailey struggles guarding opposing wings and Big Ten teams have now seen us for a full season and they will see a three step strategy to beat us: 1) try to overpower us in the paint; 2) kill us from the wing positions; 3) utilize their perimeter quickness and ball rotation to get - and hit - open looks from outside the arc. Playing Dailey at the 3 exposes us to that middle strategy which a number of teams will actually have the personnel to exploit.
Thoughts?