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Message: [QUOTE="Husky68, post: 2719862, member: 173"] Wanted to see minutes per game for Kemba and Bazz their '11 and '14 vs. Adams last year. Kemba 37.6, Bazz 35.1 and Adams 38.1. So in championship years the coaches really rode the star point guards re lot of minutes per game. Gave them "rest while playing" by bringing in Bazz to run with Kemba and take some of the offensive pg responsibilities off him, same with Boat giving Bazz a break from pg duties on offense. Expect lot of minutes for Adams with periods where offense is run by another guard and he stays out there as a "threat". Also, he will need to pick and chose when to "ramp up" defensive effort. A good strategy (as used in '11 and '14) is attacking other team sometimes with Adams on the ball and penetrating and other times off ball running his guy through all kinds of picks or decoying away from basket to keep other teams best defender (assuming best defender will be on Adams) away for the action. Can really invent a scenario where this team with a Gilbert and the red shirt kid stepping up help make 2019 a team a lot like the 2014 team which won a championship but was also one offensive rebound, put back and foul shot (by a guy who just never did this) away from a one and done. [/QUOTE]