Why never play 2 big men together? Broome and Cardwell?

Certainly, I don’t mean to say that Cardwell was a starter. But Jwill is a 3 or a 4 not a true 5. The key to winning most tournaments is have some flexibility and depth. I can’t remember the last time seeing Broome and Cardwell play together? Maybe it just didn’t work? But say against Yale, you have Wolf guarding Broome who did they have to guard Cardwell? Spread them out and give it to Broome to work it down and then Cardwell to get open on the other side of the basket, just seems like a damn good option? Now if the other team has multiple guys that can guard both Broome and Cardwell,I get it don’t do it. But Yale was very limited, if Wolf had been in foul trouble earlier than even Auburn playing poorly we would have likely won easily.

ETA: this has been how Bruce did the roster in the past also as far as I can remember. Sticking to the one game plan. Just like a lot of subbing.

A lot of subbing is fantastic if you have a lot of guys playing well, but if you get a couple players hot or someone playing terrible then continuing to sub and hurting your team makes no sense.

Short answer is that is not how Bruce runs his offense. He has never used 2 post players, and you can't revamp your offensive sets in the middle of a game when you haven't practiced them. At that point you'd just be playing street ball.

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Short answer is that is not how Bruce runs his offense. He has never used 2 post players, and you can't revamp your offensive sets in the middle of a game when you haven't practiced them. At that point you'd just be playing street ball.

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I can accept that, but he’s never going to win it all sticking to one plan. Few coaches will. Most great coaches change to their teams strengths to some degree. I’m not saying play 2 5s, but you could have one of them shift to a different position occasionally.

We just had it, and it was a strength. So I don’t understand sticking to a philosophy that’s against your strengths. But Bruce is the coach so it is what it is.

I'm not saying it wouldn't work playing both bigs together, but pretty much no one does that anymore. Some teams don't play any post players.

Kind of the same reason that no ones runs the notre dame box offense anymore in football. Crowds the line of scrimmage to much much like 2 bigs clogs the paint for flex cut action or cutters to the basket so you would essentially make all your guards just be spot up shooters. And a zone offense unless you’re extremely good in a high post game to break a zone down.