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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 1240804, member: 297"]
OK, we're getting exactly to the point though - the press may be designed as a change-up, but why does it have to be? We were sluggish, we erased a ten point deficit to an inferior team, and then we... stopped?

What would have happened had we kept the press on? Is there something special about our press that it for sure breaks down once you run it 4 or 5 straight times? Maybe our length makes it such that a less skilled and physically imposing team never gets comfortable against it. Maybe Long Beach figures it out and goes on a run. We don't know because we don't get to see how successful something different could be.

br801 nailed it I think. JB will mix it up if he has to, but he hedges. He's more comfortable ceasing an advantage outside his norm before it has the chance to become a detriment. We know he has his magic slide rule that tells him when to slow down to close out games with a lead. His stuff, by the numbers, works, but what we don't ever know is if those advantages outside the norm actually would become a detriment.

That's fair to question for other things that are JB staples - short bench, not prioritizing post offense, reliance on 2-3, calling off the trunk monkey press, etc. I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm saying it's fair to question unknowns. It's remarkable actually that he's so consistent that we can actually see some clear deviations when they happen.
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