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Originally Posted by KevB
I'm done, I have a feeling you would argue with me until tomorrow morning. I'll say what I'm going to say, you can respond with the last word and I won't respond anymore.
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You're free to do whatever you want. You started this argument by responding to an innocuous statement I made about the game that several others agreed with. Why you were offended by it, I'm still not sure.
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You said the game was a shitshow because scrubs were playing well. I said Hancock was a rotation player that Louisville depended on as a threat as a shooter. What did he do well in the FF? He shot well. Shocking.
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No, I said the game was a shitshow because it was a mixture of hacking, scrubs playing completely above their heads, and awful officiating. And the game was clearly all of those things (whether you want to admit Handock is a scrub or not). Get it right if you're going to try to knock what I said.
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My comparison to KU wasn't specific to the KU team this year necessarily.
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You didn't say that. In fact, the main implication drawn from your original claim was that Louisville's defense was somehow similar to this year's team (and then you proceeded to talk about what this year's KU team did when I questioned you on it making the implication more clear).
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Self teaches a physical brand of defense. Releford, for example, plays defense with his feet and his hands (and is great, not a criticism). The style of defense is obviously different --- press vs. half court. But the physical nature taught by both coaches is similar.
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I really can't draw any similarities at all between Pitino's pressure defense and KU's stay-at-home defenses of the last few years beyond Self wanting his players to be tough on the ball and strong on the glass. Those, of course, are the characteristics of any good defensive team at any level.
The last time a KU defense created turnovers in an even above average fashion with pure physicality and pressure (although not anywhere close to Louisville still) was about 7-8 years ago in the early Chalmers/Wright/Rush/Robinson era. The comparison between the two really isn't apt as their defensive philosophies are quite different.