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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 3441153, member: 3535"] This lineup in their frosh year would never work only vs the worst of teams. Years ago Dean SMith used to put in a complete new 2nd team for a stretch and one year he was playing Indiana and Knight's team crushed the 2nd unit for however long Smith kept them in which cost NC the game. I think he stopped it shortly thereafter. There is no way vs a decent team unless it's a blowout you would risk putting that lineup in with 3 frosh, 1 soph and 1 jr. There is an assumption "you would steal the ball." But when you press you can also get whooped by good passing teams with good guard play. There is no way you are going to keep your better players like Walker, CW AM and Westbrook all on the bench and risk this type of pressing team that would have a horrendous halfcourt set. This lineup completely disregards fundamental offensive basketball and even what a triple threat is. You have one player on the team as a triple threat as of right now. SO Geno is going to cash in his offensive flow coaching style that he pushes so much and instead throw all of his chips in on 5 minutes of a predominant freshmen / soph pressing lineup? You think Geno is just going to give up his attempt to have his team run an offensive flow - and play his lesser talented players so he can press? This is a proposal that someone would make (not just jingo) who has over-inflated view of defense vs minimal respect for offense. Walker was just projected a few weeks ago if she left to be 8th in the draft. Westbrook was a good player. Anna has outplayed AUbrey overall. Cwill's frosh year was superior to Aubrey's this year. All this is going to be dumped for 5 minutes of pressure rather than continually work on offensive flow? It won't happen. Geno is looking for offensive flow. This lineup breaks the flow. Secondly, you aren't going to risk a game with most of your stars on the bench. Third, Kiss Azzii fudd and any terrific high school scorer's future commits goodbye with something like this. They'll say "If Geno isn;t going to stick with me - then I'm not going to risk going there and play behind someone that I know I'm better than." You can't use these South Florida games as a barometer and think a lineup with such limited offensive skill is going to work vs the better teams with good guards. Very good guard play should overall defeat an aggressive press. And I'm thankful Geno believes in 3pt shooting. This lineup would be extremely limited. There is no reason to intentionally limit the lineup. [/QUOTE]

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