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Message: [QUOTE="General20, post: 125728, member: 724"] Almost every team we play tries to slow things down against us. The problem with that is, you can only slow things down when you have the ball, if you give up a rebound or a turnover its off to the races and there is nothing you can do about it. Slowing things down will cause both teams to score less, because it takes more time, but it wont necessarily stop us from scoring as much in transition in relation to how much we need to score to win the game (we will score less in transition but it will take fewer points to win the game because there will be less point scored total). I've also noticed that trying to run 30 seconds of good offense against our D usually adds up to more turnovers, not less. NC State tried to attack our zone very aggressively with a lot of quick passing, and they did a fairly decent job, they obviously scouted us well. The problem is, trying to make several pin point passes every possession (unintentional alliteration there, sorry) is a dangerous thing to do. We figured out that we had to move quick on D and get our hands up (which our guys did a good job of after about the first 5 minutes of the game) and once we did, we turned them over on a large amount of possessions. If you are asking what will happen if somebody attacks our defense perfectly, makes bunch of pin point passes without turning the ball over, hits shots, forces us to play half court defense, and is more efficient than us in the half court? The answer is, they will beat us. And that is definitely going to happen this year. We might be good, but we are not going undefeated. However, that is probably not going to happen very often. Boeheim has a system going that works over the big picture (which is why he is in the Hall of Fame) and he has the guys that can work it to perfection. Our D gives up shots (every D does) but we are unquestionably, right now, the best in the country at giving up only the type of shots we want to give up. We are also the best in the country at both generating transition points and executing in transition. Our Achilles heel is our half court offense, but I thought it looked better against NC State than it has all year. Does this mean our guys can step up their half court game when they know they have to? Maybe. Stay tuned. If that is true we are going to be very difficult to beat. [/QUOTE]

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