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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 5224603, member: 837"]
This board is very bipolar for sure. I'm guilty of it myself. But, to be fair, the questions defensively were there last year so we're not really talking about a one-game sample in terms of defensive philosophy.

I think where I'm struggling is that I don't see the over-arching vision of this team. We want to run a pressure m2m system with heavy ball denial, but we have two centers who don't really fit that mold and two perimeter guys (Bell and Starling) who don't really excel in that scenario either.

Offensively, we look better when Lampkin is on the floor but I'm still a bit confused about what we want this to look like. We tried a little high post stuff, which I think is a good thing, but it looked clunky and we didn't run much action off of it. The high ball screen stuff is good but that's a starting point, not an offensive system. We aren't going to beat people off the dribble, but we defaulted to 1-on-1 stuff last night because we were superior athletically and in terms of size.

So my point is, I'm still unclear of how we attack things against better opponents. Just a lot of questions right now, I think.
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