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<blockquote data-quote="RockfordIllini" data-source="post: 2025555" data-attributes="member: 8716"><p>Agree this all come back on Brad. I get having a philosophy and principles and in general I agree with his approach (2 is less than 3 of course). But I think you need to be flexible enough to adjust your game plan based on your opponent.</p><p></p><p>Watching Northwestern win at Maryland was eye opening. Maryland is not good. To beat them you need to trap Reese in the post and clog the paint to cut off driving lanes for Young. This will result in giving up open 3’s but guess what…Marylands wings can’t make them! They shot 3-22 or whatever they did.</p><p></p><p>Now some of that is that NW traps the post all the time so they are more comfortable with it, but I refuse to believe we can’t replicate even a C+ version of Northwestern’s defensive scheme with a couple of days of repetition. And I think that has a much greater chance of success than leaving Coleman on and island to get bullied by Reese and letting Young get wherever he wants because we are hugging 18% three point shooters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockfordIllini, post: 2025555, member: 8716"] Agree this all come back on Brad. I get having a philosophy and principles and in general I agree with his approach (2 is less than 3 of course). But I think you need to be flexible enough to adjust your game plan based on your opponent. Watching Northwestern win at Maryland was eye opening. Maryland is not good. To beat them you need to trap Reese in the post and clog the paint to cut off driving lanes for Young. This will result in giving up open 3’s but guess what…Marylands wings can’t make them! They shot 3-22 or whatever they did. Now some of that is that NW traps the post all the time so they are more comfortable with it, but I refuse to believe we can’t replicate even a C+ version of Northwestern’s defensive scheme with a couple of days of repetition. And I think that has a much greater chance of success than leaving Coleman on and island to get bullied by Reese and letting Young get wherever he wants because we are hugging 18% three point shooters. [/QUOTE]
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