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Message: [QUOTE="Orangeman, post: 1597805, member: 972"] First, we play 1-2-2 match-up zone as our base defense, only because the team hasn't been school in man-to-man etc. Play this about 25 mins, M2M about 10 mins and 2-3 about 5 mins "Center" -- Coleman (20-25), Roberson (10-15), Obokoh (5) Forwards -- Roberson (10-15; 25-30 total), Richardson (25-30), Lydon (25-30), G (5-10) Guards -- G (25-30; 35 total); Cooney (25-30); Howard (10-15); KJ (10) The intensity is picked up across the board, perimeter ball pressure, etc. Where the team has legs is on the perimeter, 4 capable bodies for 2 slots, or in the 1-2-2 scenario 6 for 3, so the legs should be fresh and the defense should be disruptive so they can't get the ball inside easily, which is our weakness defensively There is more pressing, but gone is the 1-2-1-1 full-court all-or-nothing pressure and more of a 2-2-1 three quarter court D which drops nicely into a 2-2-1. In a 30 second shot clock environment, you press 3/4 court and force them to start their zone offense with 18 seconds left, big advantage. The offense is much more complicated obviously, but suffice-to-say there would be much less pick & roll, which works fine if you have the personnel (i.e. Gbinije and Lydon, fine), but there would be a lot more inside out action vs. the current pass the ball around the perimeter looking to exploit a matchup weakness. We get overloaded a lot when we're on D...we could definitely overload a zone or man with G up top, MR on a wing, Lydon posting...then you'd have MR feed Lydon, a kick to G, who drives while MR screens down on the baseline for Lydon with Cooney floating over to replace G with either a Lydon baseline jumper, a kick out to Cooney, a drive for G or Coleman then settting a screen-for-the screener on MR's guy as he curls around in the paint. I don't see these kinds of sets from us very often but they allow for enough flair but putting people in spots to succeed Just my thoughts [/QUOTE]

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