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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1431045" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p><a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-brad-underwood-a-sleepless-night-and-a-defensive-tweak-engineered-oklahoma-states-turnaround-134927347.html" target="_blank">This is what I'm basing that on:</a></p><p></p><p>"Underwood and his staff decided that the answer was to dial back the pressure, pull back the point of confrontation to just above the 3-point arc, and reign in the ball-denial aggressiveness. They’d also continue to mix in some zone. This wasn’t an overhaul; it was a slight tweak, and one to which the players bought in when it was presented to them the following day."</p><p></p><p>I obviously didn't watch all of their games during that period, but I did see a couple and it definitely wasn't my impression that it was a pack line style, which is a total philosophic reversal from what Underwood does. Press teams want to deny passes around the perimeter whereas pack line teams try to encourage them.</p><p></p><p>I'm no basketball coaching expert though, maybe there's more to the terminology than that. They were certainly not playing a Virginia style, it was a frenetic pace.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think the folks who are combining a forecast of this being the losingest team in the history of the program with a dead certain, resolute optimism about this staff and this system are really kinda fooling themselves.</p><p></p><p>That kinda goes for the Lovie dead-enders in football too.</p><p></p><p>You don't just put your loose tooth under your pillow and the Rebuild Fairy comes and rewards you for being good little fans. There are signposts all along the way. The way to get better is by getting better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1431045, member: 746137"] [URL='https://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-brad-underwood-a-sleepless-night-and-a-defensive-tweak-engineered-oklahoma-states-turnaround-134927347.html']This is what I'm basing that on:[/URL] "Underwood and his staff decided that the answer was to dial back the pressure, pull back the point of confrontation to just above the 3-point arc, and reign in the ball-denial aggressiveness. They’d also continue to mix in some zone. This wasn’t an overhaul; it was a slight tweak, and one to which the players bought in when it was presented to them the following day." I obviously didn't watch all of their games during that period, but I did see a couple and it definitely wasn't my impression that it was a pack line style, which is a total philosophic reversal from what Underwood does. Press teams want to deny passes around the perimeter whereas pack line teams try to encourage them. I'm no basketball coaching expert though, maybe there's more to the terminology than that. They were certainly not playing a Virginia style, it was a frenetic pace. I think the folks who are combining a forecast of this being the losingest team in the history of the program with a dead certain, resolute optimism about this staff and this system are really kinda fooling themselves. That kinda goes for the Lovie dead-enders in football too. You don't just put your loose tooth under your pillow and the Rebuild Fairy comes and rewards you for being good little fans. There are signposts all along the way. The way to get better is by getting better. [/QUOTE]
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