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Final time - I want you to acknowledge that we don't consistently set solid screens throughout a possession. Disregard shot selection. Are we making the best screens we can possibly strive for? Would our offense work better if we were? If not, why screen at all? Why is it part of the offense?

At times, yes and no, it has been just as inconsistent as the players setting them in conference play, it isn't the root cause of the problem. Slow ball movement is the larger problem, not reversing the ball is 2nd.

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You think with 2 seconds on the clock down by 2 that the only thing Coach K would do is say, "run the offense, guys?"

Wow.

Is that what I said? No, it is not.

I'm talking about the games in their entirety, a series of bad shots with 15:00 to go in the first half has just as much to do with the outcome as the last shot in the game, better shot selection early could greatly change the situation at the end of the game.

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You are completely retarded. Telling yourself something doesn't make it so - evidenced by your inability to point to the specific elements of the offense, defense, or press that I don't understand. Your counterpoint to my arguments is, "But we are top 15 scoring." As if that is remotely representative of offensive efficiency playing teams with a pulse (especially on the road).

I want to see set plays, what's this motion offense you speak of?, here let me give you an example of a NBA coach, or here is the all time leader in wins in NCAA basketball who has been at the same program for 30 years, lets compare to that guy, let me play checkers while you play chess.

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What play called at the end of the game? We don't have plays, remember?

Where did I say that? I didn't.

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And how, exactly, is it better to play a guy showing a propensity for taking bad shots than playing a guy that might be less talented but WON'T take bad shots? A bad shot is a bad shot because it doesn't go in the fricking basket. A player who takes bad shots is negating his supposed strength.

Who do you want to have the ball in their hands at the end of a close game you are looking to win or tie? Madden or Haydar/Wade/Scott?

Let's take the ball out of the team's leading scoring in SEC play and put in a guy who averages 2 points and is 6' tall.

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Of course, I don't think Madden should become a bench player just because he takes a bad shot now and then. I just don't think you ignore his (or anyone else's) bad shots without addressing them. Take a bad shot? Pull the player out of the game, explain why you're taking him out, let him get some rest and then bring him back into the game. You don't discourage players from taking bad shots by not having any repercussions, however slight.

That has been done.