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Message: [QUOTE="notthestuff, post: 2506611, member: 8549"] I'm certainly not going to argue jumpers inside three are devalued because of course they are and I'm not going to get into the offense in general. I agree with the first statement that it's not either or. What I disagree with is that this is a scheme problem. You can defend both with proper technique and that's what is/should be taught but you don't change your emphasis and teach players to close out in a way that will allow dribble penetration in order to prevent someone from even taking 3's. If a team wants to find a 3, they will find a 3 and sometimes they go in and sometimes they don't. This isn't a "the defense is outdated" issue. There are core defensive principles that all coaches teach and no one teaches what you suggested in your initial post unless you are dealing with a spot up shooter who can't dribble who you want to put the ball on the floor. If you allow dribble penetration to guards you are going to end up with far better looks than Tulsa got and everyone would be screaming about how we can't contain the penetration. Players need to be able to close out effectively to contest shots and contain the dribble. At the end of the day Tulsa's best player shot 1/10 from 3 and 3/15 overall. Their 4th leading scorer went off and hit a couple open but several highly contested 3's. You don't reinvent defense because of that. You get better at what you're doing and make sure the uncontested shots are contested better next time. [/QUOTE]

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