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Message: [QUOTE="Orangeman, post: 2017965, member: 972"] I have to disagree here...full-court pressure defense is something that is practiced, drilled, instructed. It's been clear for a long time that we really don't practice or enforce good principles in our full-court pressure defense...so I don't think you can pin the "effort" on the players. When we press we launch a forward-lean 1-2-1-1 that tries to trap immediately and create a turnover on the first pass. That's it. There is really no rotation, we have no plan B except a block/foul on the opponents' 3-1 break. I'm not defending the players per se, I'm saying that our press effort is not indicative, necessarily, of their defensive effort/ability. Our full-court pressure has NEVER been a disciplined, systemized pressure package like you'd see from a Louisville, Kansas or UNC. [/QUOTE]