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Message: [QUOTE="JOC44, post: 5347792, member: 613"] In a number of his final years, JB dragged the team to the NCAA bubble by going with an "all defense" lineup for the last one-third of the season. Think the years with Frank Howard running the point. With those teams, you could tolerate a lot of bad shots because the offense was so bad you weren't going to a get a better shot later in the clock, and the defense was so good the other team was actually getting worse shots (or equally-bad shots). That philosophy doesn't work with a team that has perhaps the worst collection of defenders assembled since the French army in 1939. No rim protector at all, guards who literally can't stay in front of anyone, a complete lack of effort and desire, and only one player (Taylor) who would even qualify as an average D-1 defender. [/QUOTE]