Interesting read / take - https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...erwood-admitted-defeat-and-changed-his-style/
During this last run, we've reached a good balance of playing close pressure, but not over denying as we did last year. We started the season playing so soft in this new D our guys fell asleep.The turnaround in the identified stat categories and the impact it has had on overall performance is staggering.
Kofi would probably make a difference of 6 himself under either defense. Also Giorgi catches criticism but if there had been two Giorgis last year it would have been much different. Every opposing coach has mentioned the problem with dealing with our size. The two together are a huge advantage.Last year's BIG defense was 75.4 PPG (13th) and this year's, after 8 games, is 61.0 PPG (2nd).
People said it wouldn't work, but I remember too many times that had two bigs we couldn't deal with. Well, that's other people's problem now!Kofi would probably make a difference of 6 himself under either defense. Also Giorgi catches criticism but if there had been two Giorgis last year it would have been much different. Every opposing coach has mentioned the problem with dealing with our size. The two together are a huge advantage.
I think Kofi changed everything, we may have had 1 more win in this style last year, but it wouldn't have changed a lot. Also don't forget the 3pt line moving out helped big men a ton.