"I think the teams in the East are good," guard Latrell Sprewell said.
And I think we've got very good guard play.
You are neither a good person nor a good guard".
He says he wants to show there are good guards and bad ones, not to excuse abuse but explain it in the context of a brutal system.
When you've got good guard play, and you counter that with good inside play, and a team that through 31 games has proven themselves defensively, I think that would probably be a pretty good makeup".
"That's going to send out a real clarion call for everyone who works in these institutions that it no longer pays to be a good guard covering up for the bad guards," Mr. Neufeld said.
"If you're a really good guard, you become a tackle," said the ESPN analyst Floyd Reese, who was the general manager of the Tennessee Titans when they had one of the best guards ever, the Hall of Famer Bruce Matthews.
"They have two very good guards," Calhoun said in referring to Utah State's Tony Brown and Troy Relle, "and a tough big man" in forward Shawn Daniels, the Aggies' rebounding leader who, with Brown and Rolle, leads the team in scoring at 12 points a game.
When asked about all the good guards, Howland said it was not just a Big East trend but also a national reality that is a result of the demand from professional teams for large players at a young age to play center and forward.
"Though we led the country in scoring the last two years, we think we can extend our defense more and do a little more fast breaking than we did last year because we can always have a really good guard in the game," Krzyzewski said.
