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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 4680944, member: 722"] I was looking through the stats of the team, and found myself focused on the idea of pressing, and our best lineup for turning over the other team. The lineup is primarily focused on steals, but also the ability to recover and block or challenge shots after the press is beaten is critical is well. After that, the ability to turn a steak into offense is critical for creating momentum and wearing down the other team. Here is our best lineup by steals per 40 minutes... I used only conference play stats except for Westry, who didn't play against the SEC because of injury last season. Other possibly relevant stats also included. Mounir Hima: 2.1 steals, 3.9 blocks (8.8 fouls) Maliq Brown: 1.7 steals, 1.1 blocks Chance Westry: 3.0 steals, 4.2 assists, .8 blocks Quadir Copeland: 1.6 steals, .8 blocks, 2.4 assists Judah Mintz: 2.0 steals, 5.4 assists, .1 blocks This lineup will be very difficult to operate against, with long active arms and bodies getting defections of the dribble, pass and shot alike. Williams and Starling were surprisingly low on both steals and blocks, and McLeod had exactly 1 steal in 189 conference minutes last season. Bell's reputation as mostly a shooter is supported by his low effective pressing stats. Honorable mention goes to Justin Taylor, with 1.5 assists, 1.3 steals and .5 blocks per 40 in conference play. Since pressing might be bad for Mintz's foul status, it seems like maybe a lineup of Hima, Brown, Westry, Taylor and Copeland might be an opportunity to get the starters a rest, increase the tempo of the game and get some easy offense off forced turnovers. The game play would need to be ragged and fast, because there would be a lot of non-shooters on the court at once. Could be a very fun few minutes every half. It also, interestingly enough, means a starting lineup with Bell could give Red an A Team B Team setup, where the starters play a more traditional half court game for 25 minutes and the B Team comes in for 15 minutes or so for 15 minutes of hell... That said, I think Westry is the starter, and Bell does have untapped length and athleticism that could be effective on Team B. [/QUOTE]

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