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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4376637, member: 1329"] Strong post. My only critique is that we keep talking about that St. John's game as an example of Hurley being dictated to, but he took out freshman Sanogo, who was in worse shape and had played a bunch in a row, in order to put the starting lineup in down the stretch. The critique of not maximizing the mismatch through to the end of the game is fair, but he didn't "go small" or match the opponent. He put our best/typical closing lineup in for crunch time. Later, you talk about how to counter the 5 defenders/4 offensive people we want to shoot. In this scenario, it does seem like we need to "be dictated to" and swap personnel. If they're successfully manipulating us to lower our efficiency, we need to counter with a lineup with less offensive weaknesses. Hopefully this is less of an issue this year. It was mostly an artifact of trying to play 4 out with a 4 who was unwilling to shoot (and usually only 2 willing shooters). Easy to swap in Karaban and let them get rained on this year. Otherwise. I expect Sanogo to be the first option down the stretch and in late game situations. We mostly went to him last year similarly and had Cole as a fallback if we couldn't get an entry. I would imagine Hawkins or Newton will be that "fallback" guy this year. I imagine we'll have a few plays designed for Sanogo to kick out on late game doubles to an open shooter in a favored spot. [/QUOTE]