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Message: [QUOTE="dollarbill44, post: 3261378, member: 686"] The fact that I disagree does not mean that I think JB is a bad coach. Obviously, JB has his system just as their are plenty of coaches who play a token full court press most of the game to shorten the amount of time teams have to run their offense in the half-court. I'm sure those coaches use "analytics" too. Clearly, there are different lines of thought here. I subscribe to the theory that when you're winning by 6-8 points in the final minute, the opponent wants to maximize the number of possessions they have as it increases their chances of winning. Likewsie, the team with the lead wants to reduce the number of possessions for each team. Fewer possessions, on average, means fewer points scored. If they don't have to use any clock to bring the ball into the frontcourt, they save about 4 seconds per possession, which is about the length of each of their last 4 possessions. [/QUOTE]