(01-11-2018 05:30 PM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote:  

(01-11-2018 05:13 PM)82hawk Wrote:  True, but we won games. And FT's only allow a team to score at most two, not three points on an offensive trip. He was willing to trade off the fouls and drives for two to stop the three. As we are witnessing right now, being one of the worst in the nation defending the three leads to a really bad record.

We also lost some games because of it that we should have won. I'm not saying we weren't really good. We were. It was great. But we were NOT a good defensive team, at all. We played a good press and caused a lot of turnovers and had a high powered offense. However, we were not a good holistic defensive team.

Depends on your definition of "good defense". You can't stop or do everything, you have to pick our priorities. When you press, you risk a fast break. When you sell out stopping the three, you risk players driving around you and drawing fouls. BUT, when you press, you get TO's and fast breaks. When you stop the three, you limit scoring potential for other teams.