Smith was often criticized for not adapting but it seems to me that he adapted much more to the specific personality of the guys he had, versus Williams, who seems more like Bobby Knight, where everybody seems to do everything the same way from year to year.

Another thing that maybe I noticed when people on here were talking about the BC game is that there seems to be some confusion between trapping and pressing. It seemed to me that pressing was fairly successful in that game, while trapping was not, but maybe I am the one who is making an incorrect distinction between two things that seem to look alike to most people.

I play every Monday night with a group of guys who are fairly decent. We play straight man all the time and I do know that fighting through screens is physically more demanding and requires a lot of communication(which we do) and it also requires other players rotate on help defense. There are instances we simply end up switching on screens and that seems to be much cleaner but it also creates mismatches in some cases. I am speculating that it is the mismatches that make Roy a little leery of using it. That being said, UNC players seem to have major problems rotating in time to stop open looks, especially on the perimeter so maybe switching more would work better.

There has been talk ever since the Lawson class came in about the difficulty freshman would have learning the defensive scheme. Roy has said it is a tad complicated. I wonder if it needs to be simplified. I don’t know all the details and differences in the schemes they run and it may not be as simple just to say: Play straight man and switch on the screens. I do know the trap defense ain’t working and leads to far too many easy baskets.

I will say that 18-22 elite basketball players with greater quickness, length and height guarding players of the same caliber probably calls for more in-depth defensive schemes that what a bunch of 30 year old guys do playing in a church gym.

Any of you guys who played or coached a lot, how about commenting on the relative benefits of these different approaches?

He really had a beautiful form on the court. I wish someone could have shown him how to make even more dollars by waiting one more year, because it looks like now that he might have.

You may be right about Love, but it may be an easier argument that keeping Brandan Wright for his sophomore year would have been an even bigger impact, and UNC already had him.

i love ginyard and i believe he adds a ton of positive intangibles to our team that just can’t be measured. having said that, purely in terms of basketball, i’m going to cheat and say that i’d prefer a year each of marvin williams, brandan wright, one more stud, and kevin love (i believe that was the order) over 4 years of ginyard.

=)

ps. i hope i’m not opening up a whole can of worms but i absolutely believe the addition of kevin love to last year’s team would have given us the national championship. i’m not sure how much of a negative effect the subtraction of ginyard would have been, but i believe he was substantially less than 100% by the time we played kansas, so he may not have been hugely missed for that game.

either way, THIS YEAR, everyone is dogging wayne. some are saying give will graves more PT. i’m not sure graves is the answer given his reyshawn terry-esque bursts of mistakes in concert with his awesome outbursts. i’d prefer to see more of the following line up:

1. lawson
2. drew (for that additional playmaker help)
3. green (for he is our savior)
4. hansbrough
5. davis (for some physical presence)

That being said, though, you still can’t compare Florida’s program to Kansas’s even though they have the same number of championships(well not anymore, but up to last year). There is still probably just as much to be said for getting to the Final Four twice as for winning the title once, in terms of showing what the really elite programs are, as opposed to your occasional flukes like UMass or decent programs like Michigan and Stanford, but not quite elite.