re: For you basketball fans on the Rant

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This may be one of the biggest disadvantages of playing the motion. Everyone has got to be able to play.

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Yeah, that was a huge problem with Pel, we would have 3 guys watching, Fortson dribbling the ball and Clarke running circles, that was our offense.

Mike is good at getting the guys to play as a team, really hard this day and age. Nolan and Mike have been great about having walk-ons come off the bench and contribute, Gulley and Haydar have been doing a great job the last few weeks, both walk-ons.

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We can thank the NBA for this crap.

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I do not even watch the NBA any more, its just horrible.

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It's this right here that makes it so hard to defend. If a coach could ever get a player to understand the better you screen the more points you score maybe things wouldn't be so hard. Players nowadays just want to score and score right away. They don't want to have to screen to score. I mean I was watching the Mizzou and Illni game and noticed that Illinois runs a type of motion (or so I thought) but the players just half assed screened. It's just laziness.

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Yeah, its only going to get worse, I'm afraid. Maybe if a mid-major wins a national championship playing team ball it will wake up some teams, or getting put out by 15 seeds and what not, probably not all they see is gettin theirs and dollar signs in the NBA...