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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 4434575, member: 210"] Meant to get some thoughts on Tuesday but something else big took up my attention... something about an election or something, dunno... anyways back to what really matters. Overall team thoughts... this is a fun, athletic team. Reminds me a lot of the Roy Williams UNC teams that played volleyball on the boards, ran up and down the floor and couldn't shoot a lick. Those teams did okay because they always had a couple of guys who create offense in a half court set... not sure we do. This team is going to win or lose games based on how well it can defend and get steals. At some point this season we will need to roll out the zone as I don't see how we can hide JG3 against better shooting and more athletic teams in m2m. But the offense is going to determine the ceiling... right now we have three players who can consistently contribute on offense and that's probably 1.5 players short. If I was a coach I would face guard JG3 and have my other floor players always have at least one foot in the paint. To combat this, if I were JB, I would have Torrence/JG3/Mintz get the majority of the minutes move to a 4 corners style offense like we ran on the MCW team that lost to Michigan to prevent teams from clogging the paint. I wish JB would use JG3 like he used GMAC and Cooney and run him off endless screens vs him trying to create off the dribble or a single pick, but I haven't seen that kind of play design in years. It would also be helpful if Mintz could learn how to run a PnR w Jesse as that would also unlock a lot of offense. What we really need is at least one more player to be a consistent 3 point threat other than JG3 and I don't see one on this team. A few individual player thoughts: - Mintz... exciting player who, while not nearly as good or explosive as Flynn, I can see the comp. I love the swagger... for the first time in a LONG time we have a player with some attitude who is willing to get into people's faces. Love it. BUT we will lose some games because he will play hero ball at the wrong moments - Jesse... 2nd best player on the team behind Mintz. If he had a baby 10 foot jumper he would be unstoppable. Please don't get hurt. - JG3.. unlike others I don't think he should continue his adventures inside. He was struggling to get his shot off and convert even against Lehigh... he's going get packaged a LOT and get clobbered a LOT if he tries to go inside. JG3 is not Buddy and he's not going to be as successful inside. I'd rather that JB designs plays for him get open shots. - Torrence... he's the X factor and if he can get some consistency on his shot, continue his great defense and playmaking I think we will be in business - Benny... my mom said if I have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all. - the rest... not sure what to say yet, I think there is a lot of untapped potential and if we can get at least one of them to step up into a real ACC player this team can do some real damage. I want to see more of what we saw Monday and not the usual passive... sit in the zone all day... play 6 players team [/QUOTE]

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