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Date Posted: 01/12/03 7:25am
Author: BudMan
Author Host/IP: 66.214.197.108
Subject: Could Depth be overrated?

There were five conference games yesterday. In three of them, the winner played 9 guys or fewer. This includes Idaho who played 9 men (one made only a token appearance or it would have been 8). Cal St Fullerton and UoP both played 8 players and won.

Meanwhile, teams like Cal Poly are shuffling guys in and out in an attempt to keep fresh bodies on the floor, to give the opposition a different look, etc. and we lose. This is not a conference known for up tempo styles. Perhaps teams can have success with a short bench in the BWC. Utah St seems to use its depth effectively, but many teams in this conference haven't apparently figured out how to take advantage of some of the shorter benches.

One of Poly's strengths this year is we finally go 10+ deep with real D1 players. I'm not suggesting that we move to the Jeff Schneider school of transition offense with a very breakable press, but maybe we need to mix more traps in and look to push the ball up the court at opportune times. Also, with fresh legs coming off the bench, we should be getting more than two dozen boards a game. Varnie's doing his part (which seems to be taking him out of his offensive flow), but it'd be nice if we could count on Phil, Jared, and Vlade to pull down 5 a piece and Kamara to get close to 10 every night. Also, our guards and small forwards are apparently not hitting the glass--we need 3-4 a piece from each of those positions every night too.

I realize Utah St and Poly both shot the lights out Thursday, so there weren't alot of boards to get, but what was the reason last night??

Does coach give out awards for assists. When the guards aren't shooting well, how about working on assists a la Mark Campbell who dished out 8 last night?

On the positive side, Bromley's more controlled tempo is helping us to not give up easy buckets off of turnovers.

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