(11-21-2019 09:07 AM)HAWKING Wrote:  

(11-20-2019 03:10 PM)82hawk Wrote:  I would like to see a press become "who we are" not "what we do" sometimes when needed. Its an aggressive stance that dictates how a game is played and energizes a team offensively and defensively. Pressing every once in awhile is useless.

Picking up full court M-M with Tolefree, Toews, Phillips, Okauru, Estime can be just as effective. Especially if you are working to deny the PG the pass and make someone else bring it up by putting another man on the inbounds passer. Zone Presses are less effective when you are retreating to M-M as opposed to lets say a 1-2-2 to shave seconds off the clock and back into a 3-2 Zone. Pretty hard to play an effective 2-3 these days unless you are Boeheim at Syracuse or his disciple Hopkins at Washington, where they trap the wings and adjust their rotations based on the opposing teams strengths.

I like the idea of a full court M-M, especially since it is obvious that coach wants this team to be successful in M-M. As you're saying, that would make the most sense and alleviate a lot of confusion once we the full court is broken and we are in the half court set.