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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2822172, member: 289"]
I also wanted to look at something about Roy William's "secondary break". I've always heard and also seen UNC fast breaking off of rebounds and even made baskets and that they were good at finding a weakness in the opposition defense even if they did get back down court. I wondered what they were doing and if it was something we could do, too.

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Observations: I think the 'secondary break' is just a really fast and efficient running of the half court offense immediately after the primary break had been thwarted. Guys move into good positions and a couple of good passes result in quick scores in the half court set against the full defense. The big difference between UNC and SU is the nature and quality of the bigs. Their guys are big, strong, mobile and have superior offensive skills so they can make moves to get around people and score. get them the ball quickly and you get quick scores. We get beanpoles who have trouble catching the ball or doing anything with it if they do. it's the old thing about recruiting for defense or offense. If we were still getting the Rick Jackson or senior Rakeem Chrismas type of player we could play this way but we can't with Chukwu, Sidibe, (maybe someday?) or Dolezaj.
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