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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 5010585, member: 9844"] Yes, but here is the potential difference. A fast pace and press wears out both sides, completely agree with that. Now the question is how the two team's benches compare vs the the relative strength of their starters. With a very talented deep team the difference between our second unit and the opponents may be substantially bigger than the difference between our starters and their starters. So suppose your opponent normally plays their starters 30 minutes a game and the bench players 10, and their bench is not very good. In a high paced game with constant presses and trying to push the offensive pace as much as possible they might have to reduce their starter minutes to 25 and increase the bench players to 15, and same for us. That means more of the game is our bench vs. their bench which might be a wider difference than the advantage with the starters. If the opponent doesn't reduce starter minutes then they will be gassed against our rested starters or very good bench. That pace and substitution pattern could became the norm for us, but might take the opponent out of their game somewhat. When you have loads of very good players it could work, but obviously having a big time star like Paige that is way better than the other players is a complication, but I would like to see us try to press a lot. If the opponent handles it well you can always turn it off. Before because of a short bench and injuries we couldn't even consider it, but now it is presumably a viable option that we can use often if effective.. [/QUOTE]

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