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Along with shaking John Wooden's hand and seeing your team beat Duke, there is another common basketball fantasy: big guys all around. We love size in this game. The taller the better. There are lots of 6-11 projects but none who stand 5-9.
In reality, though, a team can have too much size, just as a fellow can eat too many Krispy Kremes. That is Alabama coach Mark Gottfried's predicament. Of his four best players, three are big: center Jermareo Davidson and power forwards Chuck Davis and Richard Hendrix. So now Gottfried wonders whether it makes sense to play them all at once.
"We'll get into practice, experiment with a few things, maybe zone a bit more," he says. "At some point, you've got to get...
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