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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4986284, member: 12088"] Two points: [LIST] [*]Your parentheses are killing me [*]Think how awesome it would be to have 5 great new threads instead of just one. As Orwell wrote in Animal Farm: One thread good, five threads gooder. [/LIST] One question: [INDENT]Why would the later reintroduction of experienced players be [B]ironic[/B]?[/INDENT] You don’t have to answer. I think I can guess what you have in mind — something to the effect that Geno’s rotation would get larger just as everyone else’s is getting smaller. You have given the best case (with all the appropriate caveats) for Geno running a long rotation. BYers have long dreamt of a rotation of 5+5 or even 6+6, or other exotic uses of a long roster. The notion of opposing teams having to face what is in effect two different (Jekyll and Hyde, as it were) and really strong teams that never seem to get tired, has long tantalized us fans. Instead of this, Geno might simply run the press/transition longer subbing liberally, though it’s not as easy to see how Raegan and Ice would fit in that scheme. Jana Sarah Morgan look more obviously like the sort of bigs who could thrive in such a game plan. Of course, most presses mainly rely on the guards running like crazy and a big or two who don’t have to run as hard anchoring the back of the defense. Just to take an example, McGuff at tOSU has a few different versions of his excellent press. In one, 3 guards are stationed at the inbounds point with Mikulasikova hanging back. In another one, 4 guards worked the inbounds pass and Mikulasikova came out of the game. This shows how even less mobile bigs can function in a press, within limits. One other feature of tOSU’s press is that it was best with more than one 3 point shooter. When Mikelson moved on last season and Sheldon became the main perimeter shooter it wasn’t quite as effective a game plan. But this season Geno should be blessed with a plethora of perimeter sharp shooters. Great presses are sort of like fiddler crabs, using the oversized claw to intimidate the inbounders and the little claw to savage opponents once the turnover is achieved. Victims of a pressing team often think they can break it with a “hero pass” or by pressing the pressers. The first tactic just plays into the presser’s hands, the second is negated by great perimeter shooting. [/QUOTE]

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