catmandoo
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posted 09-24-2015 01:14 PM
It will be interesting to see if small ball makes a return this coming season.
Villanova, a No. 1 seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament, would often play four guards around big men Daniel Ochefu and Jayvaughn Pinkston. They finished last season 33-3. Duke would often use Justise Winslow as a small-ball 4 to generate offense during its title run. One could say that worked out pretty well.
Let's play ball like it's 1966, right? The 1965-66 Kentucky Wildcats, better known as 'Rupp's Runts,' had a 6'5" guard named Tommy Kron. He was the tallest player on the entire roster, and the team still went 27-2 before being upset by Texas Western in the national finals.
Perhaps the best way to combat the size of programs like perennial powers Kentucky, Kansas and North Carolina isn’t to try and fight fire with fire. Maybe some of these schools’ best shot is to throw out a lineup of speedy shooters than can force the opposition’s bigs off the floor. It would not be at all surprising to see more college coaches toy with smaller lineups in 2015-16.
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