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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 5554466, member: 210"]
I'll eat crow... I saw in this game what I didn't see in the exhibitions and the last two years for that matter
- A planned rotation... Red is going with the line shift change 6 minutes into the half. The job of the second 5 seems to be to speed up the game by playing a controlled full court pressure D and running on everything. Then the starters come back in and get to extend the run against a tired opponent
- Defensive rotations - there was help D, traps, double teams... the whole thing. FWIW this team would have been a suffocating zone team.
- Offensive plays - Lots of pick and roll off of George and a concerted effort to push the pace to take advantage of the numbers.

Open questions:
- This was a bad bad team they played... worse than Pace. What happens against better teams?
- I'm not sure what JJ's role in this team is... when he was in he took two wild shots, but did contribute one oop on the play that he got hurt. George looked much better after JJ went out... but it happened so early it's not clear whether it's causation or correlation.
- We don't have guys who can really get their own shot... this going to lead to some pretty ugly scoring droughts and inefficient offense during those period when the team loses focus and reverts back to iso-ball. it's going to be minute by minute challenge for Red to get these guys to play within the structure of the offense and run run run to avoid those scoring droughts.

One of the funner games in the Autry regime so far.
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