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[QUOTE="cuse522, post: 1730926, member: 1149"]
Around the basket is one thing, and some of that comes down to talent, practice, strength, etc - and we've had the guys more focused on developing in the defense from what I understand. Some of the open shots, from an analytics standpoint, aren't very good i.e. mid range jumpers and long 2s.

Hopefully, yes, and I'm arguing against making big changes - but he needs tweaks IMO. Focusing on the zone allows us to make runs any given year, especially when we're good. To win it all, we'll need more offensive output without spending significantly more time on offense. Therein lies the challenge.

The problem is, sometimes we have them all standing around while one guy tries to drive... Something as simple as constantly having them set screens for each other would help create shots without requiring much practice time.

That'd certainly help, and we should have the first next year. As for the post moves, some of that comes down to how much practice time is devoted to that vs. the zone. Like I said, we seem to be focusing more and more on the defense, and the results are overall positive, so we need simple tweaks to the offense.

This seems smart to me, I'm not sure which side of that you're coming down on.
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