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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 761025" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>Overall a lack of contact in practice in basketball isn't as big a deal as it is in football especially when you get to the point where you are playing games every couple of days. Certainly hurts but in football there are some things like blocking and tackling that you absolutely need contact to maintain the ability to do in game. In basketball most of the muscle memory stuff are things that you can work on individually like shooting and it's more getting used to game speed that is an issue. With games being played every couple of days I don't see that falling off as much. </p><p></p><p>As far as the advantage this gives us, my understanding is if we went full normal practice and had someone come down with a positive result, our entire team would be frozen for 2 weeks based on the ncaa guidelines and we'd likely lose something like 5-6 games because of it. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's my understanding. With the way Pastner is running it, I believe it would mean a positive case would cause the individual to need to be isolated for 2 weeks but the rest of the team can play. It would suck if we were a little bit underprepared for some games, but to me it would be worse if we miss 5 games because, for example, Meka came down with the virus. So this strategy to me is trying to maximize the amount of games we can play. Obviously other teams might cancel because of their situations but you can't control what other teams do. </p><p></p><p>That brings up the question of whether it's better to play fewer games but be normally prepared or more games but slightly less prepared. My guess is that playing more games is better for us. Usually the NCAAT seems to favor good wins and bad losses over just volume record. For instance, we have more to gain by beating duke where losing to them doesn't really hurt. I think in general, for the majority of ACC teams a loss wouldn't be seen as a bad loss so we should do what we can to play the most games. </p><p></p><p>That's the way I view it. I'm not sure if there is an obvious best answer to this. I'm glad we seem to have a plan though. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 761025, member: 2299"] Overall a lack of contact in practice in basketball isn't as big a deal as it is in football especially when you get to the point where you are playing games every couple of days. Certainly hurts but in football there are some things like blocking and tackling that you absolutely need contact to maintain the ability to do in game. In basketball most of the muscle memory stuff are things that you can work on individually like shooting and it's more getting used to game speed that is an issue. With games being played every couple of days I don't see that falling off as much. As far as the advantage this gives us, my understanding is if we went full normal practice and had someone come down with a positive result, our entire team would be frozen for 2 weeks based on the ncaa guidelines and we'd likely lose something like 5-6 games because of it. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's my understanding. With the way Pastner is running it, I believe it would mean a positive case would cause the individual to need to be isolated for 2 weeks but the rest of the team can play. It would suck if we were a little bit underprepared for some games, but to me it would be worse if we miss 5 games because, for example, Meka came down with the virus. So this strategy to me is trying to maximize the amount of games we can play. Obviously other teams might cancel because of their situations but you can't control what other teams do. That brings up the question of whether it's better to play fewer games but be normally prepared or more games but slightly less prepared. My guess is that playing more games is better for us. Usually the NCAAT seems to favor good wins and bad losses over just volume record. For instance, we have more to gain by beating duke where losing to them doesn't really hurt. I think in general, for the majority of ACC teams a loss wouldn't be seen as a bad loss so we should do what we can to play the most games. That's the way I view it. I'm not sure if there is an obvious best answer to this. I'm glad we seem to have a plan though. . [/QUOTE]
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