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guard Jai Lucas any sort of offensive threat. Florida essentially has two players opponents have to guard: Nick Calathes and Marreese Speights. Jai Lucas was 1-4 from the floor last night. Perhaps this is an unfair comparison, but at least Taurean Green kept you honest. It's not enough to be simply a passer. The highly recruited Lucas, who averaged 20+ points in high school, MUST become more aggressive on the offensive end in his sophomore season.

The Gators do have size coming in next year to help Speights out on the blocks, but the guard situation will have to be addressed. I can easily see Donovan moving Calathes, who currently starts at the small forward position, to two-guard since Calathes already does the bulk of the ball-handling in the half-court set anyway. Calathes, however, will have to shore up his defense. The kid can fill up a stat sheet, and may be on his way to winning SEC freshman of the year, but was taken off the dribble consistently last night.

After the loss, someone reminded me that the previous two Gator basketball teams were tough, both physically and mentally. Noah, Horford and Brewer backed down to no challenges. This young Gator team will have to develop that same attitude if they want to come close to emerging from the shadow of those that preceded them.

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