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[QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 876799, member: 2350"]
For the record, SU always defends an entry to the high post with its own center/5. In the first place, when the ball is on the wing or foul line extended, the first guard is defending on ball and the off ball guard fronts the high post on ball side, so it's not always easy to get it in there (it does make us vulnerable to the skip pass). But if it does, 5 covers him the guards pick up the shooters one pass away, and 3 & 4 collapse to the low blocks to cut off the passing lanes - especially to the short corner. Furthermore, high post entries invariably come with the player's back to the basket, and there are very few post players (JB's own words) if any, in the country who can consistently hit a turn and face J from there. Finally, VTech's shooting % from inside the arc is not good, so I'm not especially concerned if they get it into that spot. The short corner however, as always, does concern me.

edit: the only guy I've ever seen hurt us from there was Coppenrath (cow spits on the ground) and much of the damage he did from there was while Watkins stood in the hole and watched him shoot.
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