re: Preview your basketball teams upcoming season

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A true PG isn't vital but guards that shoot is a must.

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They also have to play defense.

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I guess that's true of every team

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Not necessarily, there are still team who use the PG as the distributor and not as an contributor to the offense.

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MA coached teams will jack it up

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He is fine with the first good shot taken instead of the best shot possible. It increases the tempo in the game. Why fans of some schools think their football should be played fast and their basketball played slow is beyond me, sounds backwards in fact.

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we know about the theory on rebounding,

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Its a proven theory/strategy/philosophy, it is a more aggressive approach than, "I must have a guy in my set prepared to rebound the missed shot" or "I must have a guys packing the lane to grab their missed shot, because we can't get the ball back any other way".

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so it's even more important that you have multiple guards who can light it up.

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It is important because it keeps teams out of a zone offense.

The motion does not work, well, against a zone. The high/low game and sets take longer to develop and decrease the amount of possessions in a game which Anderson does not want, zone defenses allow more "rest" for defensive players, today, than playing man because players, today, refuse to move the ball fast enough to wear out a team in zone.