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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3170021, member: 1414"]
There are lots of ways to win basketball games.  The best programs will take the Bill Belichick approach to that.  Calhoun often did.  That means if you have a small or slight opponent you go big, pound it inside without mercy.  If they lack ball handlers (like UConn 2016-17 due to injury) you press them into oblivion.  If they feature big shot blockers, you rain 3s on them.

Hurley is building what Wright had with his two recent NC teams, a very flexible roster.  He's not all the way there, but you can see it with the guys he targets.  He wants a team that can press, block shots in the half court, run, drive the lane, dump it inside and score or bury you from outside.  We've been way to one dimensional the last several years, and it made us easy to defend, and made it hard for us to defend some teams.

It goes without saying that a team that can't play big when it needs to is at a disadvantage.  Just as a team with only 2-3 functional guards is at a disadvantage (which we saw for two years).  Guys who are 6'7-6'10", can handle the ball, shoot and bang inside are the most valuable of all in building that kind of team.  Hence the focus on Akok (and also Precious).  Big, powerful guards also help.
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