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Georgetown 88, Illinois 80 POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="TheGMan" data-source="post: 1427904" data-attributes="member: 628796"><p>I think Underwood understands that a zone (or a different type of defense) may have been more successful last night. But he ultimately wants to play pressure defense, and we can see with S. Carolina and WVU that that type of defense can be very good. I think Underwood also understands that we likely were never gonna be a tourney team this year, and is willing to maybe give up more points on defense last year and this year in order to give his young players the chance to develop in a pressure defense. Look at his year in OSU, he was more than willing to adjust there, because he realized that they were a potential tourney team. So I don't think he's unwilling to adapt, but rather, he is taking his lumps now in order to hopefully have a better payoff next year and beyond. Definitely a very risky strategy though, if accurate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheGMan, post: 1427904, member: 628796"] I think Underwood understands that a zone (or a different type of defense) may have been more successful last night. But he ultimately wants to play pressure defense, and we can see with S. Carolina and WVU that that type of defense can be very good. I think Underwood also understands that we likely were never gonna be a tourney team this year, and is willing to maybe give up more points on defense last year and this year in order to give his young players the chance to develop in a pressure defense. Look at his year in OSU, he was more than willing to adjust there, because he realized that they were a potential tourney team. So I don't think he's unwilling to adapt, but rather, he is taking his lumps now in order to hopefully have a better payoff next year and beyond. Definitely a very risky strategy though, if accurate. [/QUOTE]
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