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Short and long answers are both Yes, they will because people will watch the G league if guys like Deandre Ayton are in it. And it’s not like they would have to pay a ton. $200k maybe. Problem now is players in it mostly have no shot at the league or no shot to be a star in it. If people felt they ...

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The NBA is going to set up a legitimate developmental league sooner rather than later where these kids can get paid and start developing for the league. The NCAA landscape is going to be very different sooner rather than later because a lot of these one-and-dones will have more attractive options. ...

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KD shouted out Allonzo on Bill Simmons' podcast today.

Bill asked him who are his favorite prospects and he said Mikal Bridges. Then said Allonzo too. Then mentioned Shamorie Ponds and someone else I can't remember.

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Olsondogg wrote:
Postmaster wrote:Who besides TJ?

Not arguing, just wondering.
You could also make the argument nobody believed Kobi would be on a roster last year at this time.

well he did help his team lose by 61 points the other day, so it's not really a NBA roster lol.

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The game had changed. It's a shooter's game. That's why there's no zone in the NBA. No traditional 4s and 5s. I think it has more to do with the fact that there is defensive three in the NBA. I really think people make a way bigger deal about zone not being able to cover the 3pt line. It's not real...

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To me, the packline is a homerun defense (in that it increases the effort, activity, help, timing, etc. required to play defense and if it works it is great). This year we just needed to hit singles. If Ichiro Suzuki went out there and tried to hit homers every at bat he would've had a totally diffe...

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Above all, that what I wished Miller did, adjust to his personnel. The 2017-2018 team was absolutely terrible across the board at help defense, two 7 footers that make the team slow, and a team didn't have the fight to play a full complete game. Zone defense would've been better suited, who cares i...

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The Ringer Draft Guide has Rawle at #12, ahead of Trae Young. What is life.

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I feel like we just need one commitment to let everyone know it is ok to come here and it will get the ball rolling.

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azgreg wrote:

he's an amazing ft for sure

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So if the pack line gives up 3s, what tweaks can you make to it in game when you face a team that is hitting from distance consistently? Can you even tweak it without opening driving lanes? I would guess it is mostly about PnR coverages. You can switch PnRs if the post guys can't score in the post ...

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bballbreakdown on UVA vs UMBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rXHbrBmOZM

it is kind of a bashing of the packline

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Not at higher levels, it isn't, at least in my opinion. I remember over an day's worth of coaching about your foot movement when your man passes the ball. Then it has to become natural through repetition and happen in games...I think people underrate the amount of coaching detail in any form of D. ...

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For this reason it is really important to either be a zone team or a man to man team. You either switch, or you don't. almost every team in the tourney has switched defenses throughout the year. Us, UVA, 'Cuse, and Buffalo are probably the only ones that didn't. Again if you watch the games every g...

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Introducing a second defense like zone constricts teaching time of the primary D. You can run into being so so at 2 things instead of being good at one. Teaching concepts, especially with returning players is usually time well spent in developing the program as a whole. I don't think this is true. ...

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Introducing a second defense like zone constricts teaching time of the primary D. You can run into being so so at 2 things instead of being good at one. Teaching concepts, especially with returning players is usually time well spent in developing the program as a whole. I don't think this is true. ...

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Packline is based partially in the idea that semi contested threes are shots most teams won't hit, but that most teams will hit semi contested layups and dunks. I tend to think that's true. it can be true and still be a bad strategy. If you hit 50% of contested layups you would only have to hit 33%...

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Thanks to the people that answered. It seems like the common thread is giving up 3's. My personal opinion is that the packline gets too much hate. The particular issue we had this year, IMO, stemmed from an inability to stop penetration on ball. Name one guy who was really an on ball stopper? This ...

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It seems to me that we were doing pretty damned well in the NCAA tourney with the packline defense until we stopped having a decent point guard. Hasn't our recent poor tourney outings coincided with PJC being the PG? Two things: 1. Three point shooting has took a spike in the last ~3 years. 2. We h...

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This is a really good article on the advantages and disadvantages of playing slow basketball, and its strengths and vulnerabilities. It talks about the pack-line defense created by Dick Bennett (Bennett ball). Playing slowly leaves better teams more vulnerable to upsets, said John Harris, a mathema...

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Doesn't zone often lead to open 3s? Anyway, glad I caught the last 3 mins, looked just like us. They were down 15 ish with 3 mins and totally gave up? Don't they know refs will let them get that back, or is that just against us? ;) Yeah, like 10 years ago when that was the point of a zone. Now you ...

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SunnyAZ wrote:UVA getting destroyed. Packline. Packline. Packline.

Yup. Turned the game on and right away they slip the PnR and get a bucket. Then hit them with the wide open PnPop. Bennet is usually less stubborn about it tho, let's see how this goes.

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UVA getting destroyed. Packline. Packline. Packline.

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Hoping that history might just repeat itself I might be inclined to go to the same place that produced our first big time basketball coach and hire assistant coach Saddi Washington from the University of Michigan. The guy is working for the most respected (as voted anonymously by his peers) coach i...

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What about Dan Majerle? Not sure he is a good coach but thought I'd bring him up.

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Not gonna lie. PJC might end up in the Mustafa Shakur tier of my least liked Zona players. Can't believe we started a PG who couldn't drive and make a layup. Smh

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I think Mike Daum graduated already. He would be a huge get if he wants to transfer.

If Rawle comes back and we get one more player that can score I think we will be fine.

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Just get a player or two silimar to Kadeem and I'll be happy.

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definitely not

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Sean wasn't the problem. This team played with no passion or confidence today. I hope Sean stays and continues to work hard, clears his name and proves the doubter wrong. We just won the PAC by two full games. I think Lute did that once. PAC was the 1st major conference since the last one was creat...

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I don't even care about the FBI stuff or no recruits. If I thought he was a good coach I would still want him, but that is not the case.

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oh Buffalo cleared out a side and ran a pick n pop so when we hard hedge the popper will be wide open? say it ain't so. not like every team has run that the last five years against us

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NYCat wrote:Dawn of the end

hopefully

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NYCat wrote:Dawn of the end

hopefully

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CatsbyAZ wrote:When it comes to the tournament luck we sure have a horrible knack of running into teams that decide to shoot over 50% from 3.

Yeah I'm pretty sure that has to be due to our defensive scheme which we won't change under any circumstance.

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UALoco wrote:When people started picking us to win it all...kiss of death every time.

Yeah pretty sure that isn't the reason we underachieve every year.

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Hopefully the FBI finds something on Miller so we don't keep wasting the talent we get.

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We could play zone when Ayton/Dusan are in but that would make too much sense.

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How about some high low instead of having the guy stand in the corner and let his man stop the over the top pass? Or maybe set a screen for the corner so the defender has to actually guard him? Some weak side action while trying to throw it into the post would be great. Lol at keeping Dusan and Ayto...

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Sean Miller is a terrible in game coach.

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zonagrad wrote:Fuck this Buffalo coach. If Arizona doesn't play so dumb and settle for bad shots you'd be down ten. What a cocky fuck.

I think it is only cocky if you aren't telling the truth, no?

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zonagrad wrote:Buffalo is overplaying our guards driving, forcing them away from our offense set. They scouted well.

Yeah, its a one and done tourney. I hope they scouted well.

Our offense is too rigid. And I still don't think Ayton or Dusan has more than one post touch. Good job guys.

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start 2 7 footers
throw into the post zero times in 8 minutes

yes but let's just keep running our stagnant offense

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1 point game between the two other Wildcats.

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UofAlum05 wrote:Rims look a little tight, swallowing the whistles a bit.

that's what Ayton said in the shoot around video from yesterdays practice

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was just about to watch the miller pc from today but they just took it down from the ua youtube page

edit: they put it back up

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But if you look at it from this perspective, He is also an employee of the University, and as an Employee of the University,isn't your primary goal to prepare students for life after school a la their careers? Not to stay on this silly topic but lol. You think the 4 months he gets with these player...

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Mention them how? any way? You ever hear him say 'my guy Archie Goodwin is doing so well in China' (don't think archie is in China, D-League most likely, just an example). The Ringer just had a piece of big time Kentucky players and their journeys outside the NBA. This seems like a weird thing to a...

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well ucla is out. UCLA destroyed their man defense but couldn't score against the zone.

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