Most Important Buffaloes: #8 Lucas Siewert

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports The most experienced player on the Colorado Buffaloes will have to come off the bench this season. Lucas Siewert, one of two seniors on the team, is way overqualified to be a fourth big on a contending team, but that’s where we are, health permitting.

Throughout Siewert’s career, he has proved himself as a legitimate stretch big who does enough on defense to play the five. He’s a capable shooter whose real value is without the ball. Tad Boyle uses him to stand at the top of the arc, set screens and pass the ball from on top. Rarely does he ever move outside of that area because that’s where he’s most effective. Defensively, his value is being in the right…