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Bruce Pearl's 3 Ways to Upset Duke, Arizona, Michigan, Florida in March Madness · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: There are a number of teams that can get to
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  Speaker 1: the Final four this year and win it all, but
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  Speaker 1: I think there are four teams in particular, are just
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  Speaker 1: built a little different. I'm coach Bruce Pearl. People think
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  Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but I'm even crazier. In the month of March,
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  Speaker 1: I picked out some of the best offensive actions that
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  Speaker 1: each one of these teams run, and I try to say,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I would do to do a good
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  Speaker 1: job of defending it. One of the things that Duke
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  Speaker 1: does really well is they attack matchups. This very first
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  Speaker 1: matchup is a very simple middle ball screen where Duke
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  Speaker 1: is gonna take a guard and they're gonna screen Yaxel
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  Speaker 1: Lindenberg to get Michigan's best defender off of Cam Boozer.
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  Speaker 1: And here's how it happens. Right now, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: this screening action right here. Little is gonna set the
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  Speaker 1: screen for the big and we're gonna create the switch.
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  Speaker 1: Yaxell can't get through the screen. He feels like he
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  Speaker 1: needs to help up on the smaller guard. He leaves
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  Speaker 1: the dunk bucket for Duke. You know why I'm so
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  Speaker 1: in love with that action because last year I took
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  Speaker 1: my Auburn team to Cameron Indoor Stadium, we had a
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  Speaker 1: smaller guard and to Hod Pediford. And what does Duke do?
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  Speaker 1: They go ahead and they run the exact same action.
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  Speaker 1: They create the little big screen right there. They get
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  Speaker 1: the matchup they want, and Cooper Flag, the National player
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  Speaker 1: of the year, takes it to the basket. There are
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  Speaker 1: several ways. If I had to do it over again,
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  Speaker 1: I would do it differently. I would get every one
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  Speaker 1: of these defenders to get up the line a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: get away from their man toward the ball, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: go ahead. When Cooper Flagg comes off the screen, go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and blitz it. Blitz it there, blitz it there,
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  Speaker 1: Rotate up, rotate up, rotate off, and make him have
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  Speaker 1: to make a tough pass. Instead, we let him create
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  Speaker 1: the switch and we let him go one on one
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  Speaker 1: on our smallest defender. Now, it wouldn't surprise you at
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  Speaker 1: all if some of these actions looked a lot alike,
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  Speaker 1: but they were done differently to create the same advantage disadvantage.
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  Speaker 1: I love a screen, the screen of actions. What you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see here is Isaiah Evans is gonna take his
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  Speaker 1: little He's gonna get a cross screen on cam Boozer
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  Speaker 1: and create some problems down on the block. And then
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  Speaker 1: after he sets a good screen, he's gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: great screen and create advantage disadvantage in the perimeter. Let's
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  Speaker 1: watch what he does with it. Here comes this little
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  Speaker 1: big screen right there, there goes cam Boozer. The BIG's
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  Speaker 1: gonna screen down. He's gonna come off that action. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a look screen across. Set a good screen, get
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  Speaker 1: a good screen. Right now, he's got that same big
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  Speaker 1: little advantage, except now it's a guard taking it downhill.
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  Speaker 1: Who's guarding him? Okay, the screen we're sealed down there.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna turn that corner. We've got great backside rebounding position.
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  Speaker 1: Wats this easy bucket? Now? The best way to guard
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  Speaker 1: this action is to not let cam Boozer go low,
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  Speaker 1: force him high with a guard to be a bump.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to take this path. You want to force
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  Speaker 1: him to take this path and let that guard be
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  Speaker 1: a helper staying on top and that helps that guard
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  Speaker 1: get through that screening action. That's not what happens defense
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  Speaker 1: and rebounding, it's what wins championships. Duke is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most underrated defenses. In all of college basketball. They've
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  Speaker 1: got the size at the rim to protect it, but
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  Speaker 1: they've got great size all over the court. Watch this
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  Speaker 1: possession against Michigan where Duke just flat out stays in
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  Speaker 1: the gaps the entire time. Two guys on the ball. There,
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  Speaker 1: we get a switch right there. All eyes are on
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  Speaker 1: a ball, a little bit of ball pressure, a hedge
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  Speaker 1: boozer helps, he recovers. We get a stunt out of
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  Speaker 1: the corner. I mean, yellow cannot get in the paint.
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  Speaker 1: There are no gaps. They're all white jerseys. Late in
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  Speaker 1: the clock, we get a switch. We cut off the baseline.
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  Speaker 1: We use our active hands. The ball is going the
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  Speaker 1: other way. This is how you build a wall, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't let the opponent make that penetration. So how
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  Speaker 1: do you beat Duke defensively? You could extend. You can
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  Speaker 1: make them hangle the ball farther outway past the three
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  Speaker 1: point line. Those interior passes have a lot farther to travel.
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  Speaker 1: You could also just go bodies on bodies. If you've
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  Speaker 1: got the size to switch at every position and build
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  Speaker 1: a wall keeping them on the perimeter and pressure in
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  Speaker 1: the shooters. That would also be a good way to
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  Speaker 1: beat the Duke Blue Devils, Todd Golden returned his entire
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  Speaker 1: front line. He also had to replace his entire backboard.
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  Speaker 1: That took a little while for things that get going.
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  Speaker 1: But right now the Florida Gators are as hot as
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  Speaker 1: anybody in college basketball. Florida does an amazing job entering
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  Speaker 1: the ball to their high post area and running all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of staggers and sometimes they'll curl Thomas Howe to
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  Speaker 1: the rim. This is really hard to guard. So sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you look at an action, you're really never sure
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  Speaker 1: who the action is for. Believe it or not, This
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  Speaker 1: action right here is for this guy right in a corner.
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  Speaker 1: And Condon at seven foot has got the ball right
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  Speaker 1: there at the top of the key. He's able to
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  Speaker 1: look right over to Texas defense and hantlec is gonna
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  Speaker 1: set a backscreen right here just to loosen his man
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  Speaker 1: up so he can get a nice tight catch. Cona's
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  Speaker 1: gonna take the ball and get that ball to huntle
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  Speaker 1: Lock right there. And this is where the actually gets
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  Speaker 1: really really difficult. We're gonna clear Boogie flann On out
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  Speaker 1: of there and hope his defense goes edge and chase
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  Speaker 1: him with him. We're gonna go ahead and keep the
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  Speaker 1: shooter right here to open up the lane, all right,
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  Speaker 1: and watch Thomas Hout. He's six'. Ten he's gonna come
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  Speaker 1: off this downscreen dribble hander right, there and he is
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  Speaker 1: gonna get himself to the. Rim and it's seven foot
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  Speaker 1: we're able to look right over the top of the.
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  Speaker 1: Defense that is a beautiful play and that is hard to.
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  Speaker 1: Guard this is a, big big dribble handoff at the.
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  Speaker 1: End IF i Was, TEXAS i would just switch this.
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  Speaker 1: Action bodies on. Bodies here comes a. Handoff that's a
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  Speaker 1: big handing the ball off to another. BIG i go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and switch that action and don't Let Thomas houk
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  Speaker 1: get a run at the. Rim you, know they say defense,
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  Speaker 1: travels and it's really. True the team that gets hot
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  Speaker 1: in The final, four the team that can make open,
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  Speaker 1: buckets that team offense gonna. Win but you can't get
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  Speaker 1: there unless you can. Guard so WHEN i was breaking
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  Speaker 1: down film AND i was looking WHAT i was gonna
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  Speaker 1: show you, DEFENSIVELY i THINK i found the best clip
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  Speaker 1: of the year for one on one individual. Defense Watch
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  Speaker 1: Ruben hinneleu here he is going to guard down the
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  Speaker 1: big and rotate. Over now you got nothing down, there
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  Speaker 1: so go ahead and kick it out to the. Perimeter
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna get switched off right now onto Le Baron.
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  Speaker 1: Finland LeBaron foland is the most dangerous one on one
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  Speaker 1: player in college basketball right. Now Tin new's out there,
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  Speaker 1: saying you're not gonna get the three if you want
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  Speaker 1: to put the ball down the. Floor i'm sitting down
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  Speaker 1: in my. Stance i'm not in your going. Left i'm
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  Speaker 1: not you gonna shot. Fake you can definitely. One you got,
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  Speaker 1: nothing go kick it out all right? Now, fine wanna
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  Speaker 1: set another ball, screen you wanna try somebody. Else Latrelle's
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  Speaker 1: Whitesell chindler, says, Nope i'm switching down on. You you can,
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  Speaker 1: probe you can, go you can shot, fake you can step.
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  Speaker 1: Back you got. Nothing that is the best individual defensive
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  Speaker 1: possession of the. YEAR i think when you're Attacking, florida
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  Speaker 1: you gotta tack particular matchups for. Me florida's interior players
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  Speaker 1: their best. DEFENDERS i might take a different matchup and
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  Speaker 1: go attack a couple Of florida's guards and see IF
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  Speaker 1: i can get into the paint that. Way florida is
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  Speaker 1: the best offensive rebounding team in the. League it's not
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  Speaker 1: always their first shot offense that's going to get, you
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes their second and their. Third bodies on, Bodies
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  Speaker 1: and if you've got a chance to beat The Florida,
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  Speaker 1: gators you got to be the more physical. Team The
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  Speaker 1: Michigan wolverines have got a chance to be one of
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  Speaker 1: the best teams in the history of The Big. Ten
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  Speaker 1: they went undefeated on the. Road how do you do?
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  Speaker 1: That unbelievable, defense great room, protection great overall, size don't
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  Speaker 1: give anybody second. Shots BUT i think what makes This
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  Speaker 1: michigan team unique is even though they're one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest teams in a, country they play faster than most
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  Speaker 1: teams in a, country and they do a great job
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  Speaker 1: at getting their bigs to the block early in a
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  Speaker 1: possession before the defense can get. Set so right here
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna See michigan And Yaxel lendenburg recognize that he's
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  Speaker 1: got a guard right here back, defensively And yaxle's ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the. Play look at all the defenders here that
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  Speaker 1: are trailing the play and should have been to be
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  Speaker 1: sprinting to get behind the ball and kick this guard.
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  Speaker 1: Off they, don't big. Mistake we're gonna advance past the,
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  Speaker 1: ball just gonna post him, up and that's just not.
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  Speaker 1: Fair that's called a, mouse a mouse and a. House
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  Speaker 1: those are easy buckets For. Michigan i'd love to send
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  Speaker 1: four guys to the offensive glass and had one guy,
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  Speaker 1: back and that was my. Guard he'd be. Back the
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  Speaker 1: other guys would go to the. Boards as a, result
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  Speaker 1: after the opponent gets at, rebound the bigs have got
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  Speaker 1: to sprint back and kick him. Out what happens, Here
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  Speaker 1: none Of duke's bigs go back to the, basket there
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  Speaker 1: are two of, them and then kick these disc guard
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  Speaker 1: out to the, perimeter allowing him to have to play
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  Speaker 1: one on. One kick the guard, Out let the guard
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  Speaker 1: come out on the. Ball they don't get. Back so
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  Speaker 1: it's an easy bucket For. Michigan as you progress THE na,
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  Speaker 1: tournament you're gonna see nothing but great, defenses and so
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  Speaker 1: the teams that can beat people down the floor and
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  Speaker 1: score before the defense gets set has an enormous. Advantage
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  Speaker 1: and one of the way you do that is put
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  Speaker 1: pressure in the. Rim you put pressure on the. Rim
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  Speaker 1: whe your Big watsmara who starts right here underneath the. Basket,
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  Speaker 1: okay he is gonna sprint down the. Floor we get
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  Speaker 1: that ball outlet it and there he. Goes he is taking.
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  Speaker 1: Off he's beating all perduced defenders and he's getting an
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  Speaker 1: easy one that absolutely deflates the opponent easy buckets before
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  Speaker 1: the defense gets. Set michigan's last road game was At
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  Speaker 1: iowa and they almost lost this. Game but one of
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  Speaker 1: the things THAT i like to do defensively IS i
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  Speaker 1: like to press. Up and The Iowa hawk guys are
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  Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and press, up and they're extending. Catches
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  Speaker 1: they're extending catches and they don't Want mara to flash
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  Speaker 1: and be able to catch that ball in the high passed,
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  Speaker 1: area so they're gonna extend. It michigan knows, this and
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  Speaker 1: what they're gonna do is just Release smara and just
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  Speaker 1: send him to the. Basket so he acts like he
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  Speaker 1: wants this, catch this is a, fake and then, bam he.
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  Speaker 1: Releases he spins. Out that's gonna put pressure in a.
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  Speaker 1: Rim what do you? Do do you help up On Elliott,
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  Speaker 1: cadou Which iowa does here and obviously Leaves mara at the.
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  Speaker 1: Rin we're at seven to. Three he's as dangerous running
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  Speaker 1: a basket as anybody in the. Country that's too. Easy
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  Speaker 1: you know how difficult that is With Elliot cadou receiving that. Ball,
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  Speaker 1: Pressure you know what Trust Dusty may has to have
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  Speaker 1: In elliott And mara to be able to make that.
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  Speaker 1: Play that was the reason Why michigan went undefeated on
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  Speaker 1: the road and The Big. Ten with all these great,
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  Speaker 1: teams it's hard to, say, well if we do, this
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  Speaker 1: this is the formula for beating. Them But i'd say
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  Speaker 1: With michigan a couple of. Things Number, one you can't
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  Speaker 1: give them. Transition they're so good putting pressure in a
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  Speaker 1: rim and advance passing that ball down the floor and
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  Speaker 1: using their size taking care of the ball and not
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  Speaker 1: turning it over would be one. THING i. Think the
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  Speaker 1: second thing is you got to make them beat you
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  Speaker 1: from the. Perimeter you've just got to pack that thing,
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  Speaker 1: in make them take perimeter shots and limit them to
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  Speaker 1: just one. Shot just like all these, TEAMS i think
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  Speaker 1: has a chance to win a national. Championship size. Matters
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  Speaker 1: arizona is. Huge they've got length everywhere like all these,
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  Speaker 1: teams they've got rim, protection and they got a freshman
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  Speaker 1: named Co opete THAT i don't think was on everybody's right.
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  Speaker 1: Arm like some of the other top pressure in the.
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  Speaker 1: Country you're gonna watch some action right here Against Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: State and this is just a little short roll and
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  Speaker 1: a little pocket pass to put the ball into Co
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  Speaker 1: opete's hands in the middle of. Lane he's got options
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  Speaker 1: to score himself or spray the ball to the. Perimeter
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  Speaker 1: so here comes this screen right, there and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get this little screening action And copete's gonna slip out of.
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  Speaker 1: There brady's gonna create a little angle and find a
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  Speaker 1: way to make that passer to. Hear and now he's
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  Speaker 1: got all kinds of opportunities to take that ball to the,
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  Speaker 1: basket to, score to make place for himself and. Others
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  Speaker 1: there's the pocket to bounce, past he's got the, rim
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  Speaker 1: he's got the shoot in the. Corner he's got. Everything real,
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  Speaker 1: simple but lots of great options for one of your best.
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  Speaker 1: Players one of the keys to great offense is all
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  Speaker 1: the eyes are on the ball and the, screener but
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  Speaker 1: it's really what the guys off the ball are doing
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  Speaker 1: that lets those two make the magic. Happen all, Right
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  Speaker 1: so Watch arizona here get all this movement away from
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  Speaker 1: the basketball to create this opportunity right there in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the. Floor we're gonna get that cut, Through
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get that, spacing and they're gonna copete wide
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  Speaker 1: open at the. Rim, defensively the guys off the, ball
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  Speaker 1: we call them, taggers and you can't be fooled by
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  Speaker 1: all that. Misdirection so When arizona cuts through on the,
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  Speaker 1: baseline the defender must stop and put his head right
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  Speaker 1: underneath the. Net this defender here needs to put his
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  Speaker 1: head right underneath the, net and he. Doesn't he goes.
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  Speaker 1: Through how is a no man's. Land he leaves and
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  Speaker 1: gives up the easy. Two sometimes fans will ask the, question,
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  Speaker 1: coach why are we not pressed out on the. Ball
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  Speaker 1: why are we playing off and allowing people open? Shots
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  Speaker 1: and the answer, is you don't have shot blockers in the.
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  Speaker 1: Back that's not the case with every one of these
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  Speaker 1: final four. Teams these final four teams can run shooters
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  Speaker 1: off the three point line because if those shooters break
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  Speaker 1: it down and attack the, paint that's not necessarily a
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  Speaker 1: high percent in. Shot so watch, here As bury's is
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  Speaker 1: going to close out On counsole a little bit out of.
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  Speaker 1: Control no, Problem he's got rim protectors at the back
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  Speaker 1: of the rim to be able to make. Plays kansas
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  Speaker 1: is going to, penetrate get a paint touch and. Pitch
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  Speaker 1: we get the close out, There we're. Late, actually That's,
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  Speaker 1: bradley no. Worry look at all that size the. Rim
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  Speaker 1: there's one block. Shot Floria bedunga gets a, rebound that's
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  Speaker 1: a second block. Shot arizona size on the interior allows
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  Speaker 1: their perimeter players to extend and put pressure on the.
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  Speaker 1: Basketball it's hard to find fault with great. Teams they
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  Speaker 1: just don't have very many. WEAKNESSES i suppose For arizona
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit Like. Michigan they're so good around the,
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  Speaker 1: basket they're so good. Driving they've got some of the
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  Speaker 1: best two point field goal percentage in all of college.
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  Speaker 1: BASKETBALL i gotta make them beat me from the. PERIMETER
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  Speaker 1: i gotta Make arizona prove to me they can beat
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  Speaker 1: me from the three point. Line you better Find Della
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  Speaker 1: rosso From arizona because he is ready to take up that.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge so this is a breakdown of WHAT i think
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  Speaker 1: of the four best. Teams but let's see who makes
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  Speaker 1: it to the final. Four