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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 785988" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>IMO in basketball, styles are less about advantages over each other compared to football for a variety of reasons but mostly because in football, you can call designed plays a lot more often, where basketball is more concept oriented and you don't have nearly as much control over what's going on as a coach. For instance, our style this year is a turnover forcing style to try and get some transition points and build energy and momentum. IMO UVA is somewhat the opposite. They want to play more half court, more methodical and make the game less about emotion and energy and more about precision and discipline. BTW this is a very oversimplification so before you bring up that we are very disciplined on defense I agree but painting in broad strokes. </p><p></p><p>I don't think either style has an advantage over the others. It's a matter of who can force the issue into their style. I think GT and UVA are mutually bad match ups because both are really good at preventing things that the other one usually wants to do. </p><p></p><p>Instead I think you need to look individual aspects that would give our team trouble. The big one to me is a team with a truly great center. The ACC this year has a lot of really good forwards, Moses, Hurt, Aluma, Hauser, Champagnie, Sims, Guerrier, etc. But few have truely great centers. Huff is about the only one that comes to mind and he doesn't really assert himself in the way some other guys do. And I think that dynamic is why we have been able to get away with going small as our base thing. So a team like BYU with Haarms could really make it hard for Moses to do his thing. Then you could also look at Jose. A team that has a threat that really quires Jose to deal with can make him extend energy on the defensive end more than normal paired with a good defensive guard to make life hard on the other end can be a bad match up. Its why I think UVA is a bad match up for us. They have Huff to make life hard on Moses, and we want to put Jose on Hauser while they can stick Clark on Jose. Doesn't mean we can't win, but makes it harder to. </p><p></p><p>IMO the things I would like to avoid are teams with experience guards. I'd MUCH rather go up against Duke with their 5 star freshman guards than against Notre Dame with Hubb and Goodwin. Now overall I'd rather play ND because hurt scares me and Williams down low is a monster in the making, but talking just about guards. I would also like to avoid the aforementioned great centers. I trust Moses against great forwards. True centers scare me. Lastly, I would prefer we avoid grindy teams. Not so much because I think we'd struggle, but because I want to avoid our guys trying to force the issue if they feel the pressure of the tournament.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 785988, member: 2299"] IMO in basketball, styles are less about advantages over each other compared to football for a variety of reasons but mostly because in football, you can call designed plays a lot more often, where basketball is more concept oriented and you don't have nearly as much control over what's going on as a coach. For instance, our style this year is a turnover forcing style to try and get some transition points and build energy and momentum. IMO UVA is somewhat the opposite. They want to play more half court, more methodical and make the game less about emotion and energy and more about precision and discipline. BTW this is a very oversimplification so before you bring up that we are very disciplined on defense I agree but painting in broad strokes. I don't think either style has an advantage over the others. It's a matter of who can force the issue into their style. I think GT and UVA are mutually bad match ups because both are really good at preventing things that the other one usually wants to do. Instead I think you need to look individual aspects that would give our team trouble. The big one to me is a team with a truly great center. The ACC this year has a lot of really good forwards, Moses, Hurt, Aluma, Hauser, Champagnie, Sims, Guerrier, etc. But few have truely great centers. Huff is about the only one that comes to mind and he doesn't really assert himself in the way some other guys do. And I think that dynamic is why we have been able to get away with going small as our base thing. So a team like BYU with Haarms could really make it hard for Moses to do his thing. Then you could also look at Jose. A team that has a threat that really quires Jose to deal with can make him extend energy on the defensive end more than normal paired with a good defensive guard to make life hard on the other end can be a bad match up. Its why I think UVA is a bad match up for us. They have Huff to make life hard on Moses, and we want to put Jose on Hauser while they can stick Clark on Jose. Doesn't mean we can't win, but makes it harder to. IMO the things I would like to avoid are teams with experience guards. I'd MUCH rather go up against Duke with their 5 star freshman guards than against Notre Dame with Hubb and Goodwin. Now overall I'd rather play ND because hurt scares me and Williams down low is a monster in the making, but talking just about guards. I would also like to avoid the aforementioned great centers. I trust Moses against great forwards. True centers scare me. Lastly, I would prefer we avoid grindy teams. Not so much because I think we'd struggle, but because I want to avoid our guys trying to force the issue if they feel the pressure of the tournament. [/QUOTE]
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