Our bigs, however productive, are slow. Yes. Sheed is the only big with some mobility but as mentioned, he is no Ben. Sheed is by far our best defensive big. Davis does move some. But can he do anything with Shaq and will they play him this year?

Pavolvic getting that easy into the lane for whatever reason points to the need for a perimeter defender before the trading deadline. That would help out a bit for our front line.

We went with Webber for the offense. Fine. We do need a back up point-- but even more--we need to get better perimeter defense for the big run, phoney Stern rules or no phoney Stern rules. We are not going to outscore teams consistently.

We need to continue to develop Maxiel as he does seem to have some quickness of foot on the defensive end and can be used in a situational way as Lindsay was today.