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Never said it made us a "top defensive team", just better than this year...that we can agree on. And yes, Scramble D is just a set of rules for recovering on help defense and that's pretty much it. It's just in the way that Coach L teaches it year to year with each squad...and as you alluded...

I get that all around. That Pack Line D is just another BS term for "let's hack the **** out of the other team and dare the refs to call it" though. There's not any real basketball philosophy to it other than pushing the limits of the rules. You can play good team defense (like we have done...

UVA plays defense under Bennett so physical and rough that it basically dictates what the refs are willing to call. Do you call everything a foul or nothing a foul? Well, if you call all fouls then that's gonna work against UVA and they'll foul out 4-5 kids a game. Refs don't wanna do...

I agree with that as well. I didn't mention portal w/him because I do think he'd more likely chase the NBA as an international kid versus hopping to another school since he was already thinking draft as an option before he came stateside.

Agree with all of that...and even when we've tried to play depth, it's been largely ineffective...Jakai should probably go elsewhere if he's ever gonna log any kind of minutes in college. Nwoko/Djobet have been promising in flashes but nothing spectacular. Christian Watson is just woefully...

At this point, the only reason the NIT or even the CBI would have us is if they wanted to tout having a participant from the previous year's Final Four in their field. This team just looks ineffective and uninterested. Injuries, lack of success with expectations so high, possible locker room...