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Message: [QUOTE="notthestuff, post: 2506175, member: 8549"] I've lurked here for years but never felt compelled to post but some of the criticism or suggestions on how to fix this mess on this board have grown beyond outlandish even for this place and I'm no Ollie apologist. His rotations are questionable at best and his talent evaluation and overall recruiting strategy has been terrible. You can't tell me Rak Lubin and Sam Cassell Jr. were the best we could get even with sanctions or that we had no inkling or back up plan for Stone and Diallo. He made his bed, but even in fanatical anger at the state of this program to think a guy who won a national title and out coached some of the best coaches in the country on the way and played 13 years in the NBA and 4 years in college for some of the best minds in the history of the game doesn't understand basic defensive and offensive concepts is beyond absurd. The premise of this post is just fundamentally wrong. The only way to play any defense is with help principles and there is no competent coach in America from youth travel to the NBA who doesn't teach man to man defense with basic help principles. You also don't need either one of a shot blocking big man or long guards to execute. It's actually the exact opposite in terms of a shot blocking big man. You help LESS when you have a shot blocker because you can funnel penetration into your shot blocker who you can camp around the rim so no one else has to help. Your help is more critical when you have less length because smaller players are less likely to be able to stop someone at the rim so you need to stop penetration further out otherwise it's layup lines. [/QUOTE]

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