loesshillshawk
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As a coach I would have this team pressing from the tip. They need the press to set the tone of the game. Every time we press we play with better energy.
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QuadCityHawkeye
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All you have to do is get physical and this team folds. Take away transition baskets and you win.
HawkeyeWalker
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I thought you wanted to be AD? 
Pressing all game allows a team to plan for and beat it, leaving easy buckets. Also, unless you have a very deep and strong bench that is playing well, running a press most of the game would wear the team down very quickly. It's why noone runs a full game press, it's not sustainable.
Pressing all game allows a team to plan for and beat it, leaving easy buckets. Also, unless you have a very deep and strong bench that is playing well, running a press most of the game would wear the team down very quickly. It's why noone runs a full game press, it's not sustainable.
HaydenHawk56
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I thought you wanted to be AD?
Pressing all game allows a team to plan for and beat it, leaving easy buckets. Also, unless you have a very deep and strong bench that is playing well, running a press most of the game would wear the team down very quickly. It's why noone runs a full game press, it's not sustainable.
Grinnell does pretty well running the press all game long. Not so well this year, but generally speaking.
imported_ankle23
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I thought you wanted to be AD?
Pressing all game allows a team to plan for and beat it, leaving easy buckets. Also, unless you have a very deep and strong bench that is playing well, running a press most of the game would wear the team down very quickly. It's why noone runs a full game press, it's not sustainable.
and i think that iowa is out of gas mentally and physically anyway. and you are right - if you press consistently, it takes the 'surprise' factor out of it that leads to turnovers/sloppy play.
loesshillshawk
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I thought you wanted to be AD?
Pressing all game allows a team to plan for and beat it, leaving easy buckets. Also, unless you have a very deep and strong bench that is playing well, running a press most of the game would wear the team down very quickly. It's why noone runs a full game press, it's not sustainable.
Not all game just need it to help get our energy level up.
skinnykilmer17
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This. It's so weird it took so long for so many coaches to figure this out.
Bobby Hansen said Illinois looked like a different team defensively today. Game 1 they played a soft zone. Today they were up in us.
knighthawk13
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I would definitely mix the press in for a lot of the game. Illinois had issues handling it in both halves. I think the line-up with the younger, more athletic group would be a good time to throw that at teams. Let those kids give 110% for a 5 minute stretch.
Sadly, I think this is what it comes down to. And this is not the type of fatigue that gets better by being off a week, like we will be now before the NCAA tournament. Liken it to a pitcher in baseball who just stops dominating by Labor Day. Extra rest usually doesn't help - only an off-season.
Hope I'm wrong, but I myself have felt that, both in short- and long-term situations. Short-term - you just stop for the day and take a shower. Long-term - no getting back to "that level".
SonofaSailor
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I thought you wanted to be AD?
Pressing all game allows a team to plan for and beat it, leaving easy buckets. Also, unless you have a very deep and strong bench that is playing well, running a press most of the game would wear the team down very quickly. It's why noone runs a full game press, it's not sustainable.
Bull hockey....pressing forces the other team to play at your pace...It's how Iowa would beat teams like MSU and wisconsin. I'm not saying follow the Grinnell model...because if they don't get a steal/trap they let them go...but pressing from tip to buzzer has merit...it doesn't always have to be full court...but even a 3/4 trapping press can wreck havoc on a team.
When you press the whole game...you give up layups...sure...but by the end of the game you make those points back. I don't think it's a coincidence Iowa looks as good as they do when they press...That style of play can hide a lot of the issues this Iowa team has. And they're long and athletic enough to do it. It boggles my mind how these coaches see success with stuff like that and then make a point to pivot away from it.
HawkeyeWalker
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Then way don't you see anyone else press the whole game, at the D1 level, ever. I love when we press, but there's a reason it's not done most of the game, by anyone.
1hawkeye1
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This guy is right. Even Mr. Davis didn't press the entire game. You can do that in high school and at Grinnell. But you would get shredded at the D1 level.
I do agree, though, I'd like to see us doing it more than we are.
mrolympia
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I agree it's useful for certain situations but if you go Mr. Davis and do it all the time you'll give up a ton of easy layups. Sure would have been nice to see at times this year when the team blew a lead or was on the wrong side of a scoring run, or in the midst of a drought.
