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02-27-12 09:34 PM - Post#122837
In response to Silver Maple
Actually, you can do the up-tempo thing with players other teams don't want, because they can be very specialized guys without the full set of basketball skills. Boston College under Dr. Tom Davis in the 1980s, for example, had a motley collection of guys (e.g. a 6'4"" center, a 6'10" standstill jump shooter from England, etc.) but managed to upset some very good teams (including Duke with Amaker and Dawkins)
Rick Pitino's Providence teams did pretty well with an assortment of guys not too many other people wanted. Ditto most of Tarkanians early UNLV teams--Gerald Paddio couldn't even dribble, for example.
The hardest part is to get your players to sell out on hyper-conditioning and defensive effort for 40 minutes. Up-tempo pressing sounds like more fun than it is--a recruit may think he wants to play that way until he finds himself barfing at practice and getting yanked from games for being a step slow to run down the court.
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