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Message: [QUOTE="KevMonstah, post: 2791247, member: 327"] If I was to address the OP and topic ... Yes, iso ball sucks. It's hard to watch, especially when not a whole lot of effort is made to do other options to get easier looks. I'm a fan of having a low post option. I'm not going to say low post and low post ONLY, but you can work this with anyone. Battle or Brissett can certainly post their guys, probably Hughes. And if you can't teach Chukwu to catch, turn, and put it off the glass, you really don't have much business working with big guys. I'll admit, Bol Bol on D will make a low post game difficult, but he's not there in many games. I'm also a fan of player movement and ball movement, which SU doesn't have. Years ago, SU would get the ball high to Keita, and he was probably good for one assist a game on backdoor cuts by Cooney. I don't totally get high picks by guys who do not know what to do with the ball when they get it, but he had that one pass with player movement. You don't see much of that now. I don't like that SU doesn't run as much as it used to. I can live with turnovers if the pace is pushed, but it's hard to do that when you recruit combo guards and convert them to PGs. I think the offense in general struggles with this. And finally, why is it that SU cannot execute against a zone? One would think they would know how, either from practicing against it, or watching old tapes of how other teams successfully attacked it. I don't get how you can play against this defense for years, yet seem to be clueless when confronted with it. Ball to high post, kick out. Ball to high post, shot. Ball to high post, pump, one dribble shot. Crash the boards. Done. Not pass around. And around. And around. And heave. And Frank will fix some of this. You're adding a good player, but he's not a lights out shooter, or a 5-1 assist-turnover guy, or a jitterbug with the ball. They'll play better, but it's a long season, and they got lots of time to improve. I'd rather they improve all year instead of peaking in December, that's for sure. Kev [/QUOTE]

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