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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4576796, member: 6696"] This. If you're the less talented team, the recipe for success is usually to minimize possessions and hit your shots. More possessions is not a good thing with a talent discrepancy. Pressing is a good way for a low-major to dominate their own conference... doesn't work so well playing a better team. If they press is your main weapon, you're screwed as soon as a team beats it. My teams ALWAYS pressed a lot in our conference because we were usually fast enough to beat most conference opponents with it, and we only had a few basketball-first players in any given year. I made the state tournament 6 years in a row with a team that hadn't had a winning record in almost a decade. You better believe when we played East Catholic and Windsor, we nixed the press and played slower (and still got our asses kicked, lol). I think our defense is going to be good enough to minimize their opportunities to press at all anyways, however. [/QUOTE]