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[QUOTE="sholokov2, post: 4710870, member: 6629"]
How to evaluate DCs?  Caputo has a long history with a very fine top level team. Danowski would not have kept him around if he did not value his work. I agree he does not like sliding.  Neither do I.  Over the long term, I believe that's a solid approach. He leaves responsibility with his ssdms, trusts them to maintain position between goal and offensive player, and he has almost always trained exceptional longs.  I would love to see statistics like first half - second half deltas to determine whether he adjusts over the course  of a game.  I wonder what he would do with lesser and smaller athletes.  I think Petro's approach was to structure a protective scheme because of some pretty obvious holes the past two years.  A sliding team always takes risks that many times leave open areas.  The complexity can lead to cluster fs.  Hops went years at the end of Petro's reign with much too complex defensive structures.  His teams suffered for it.  Same at SU.  I'd love to see Caputo's influence on the Orange.
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