PonyTime wrote:skyscraper wrote:I'm curious to see if we go with a rope-a-dope type strategy so we can be physical in the 2nd half and pull out a win.
This is how Jank handled it in those short bench games. But that was against Howard and Nic State. Expect a lot of Zone and let's hope that we don't get the refs from the first couple of games at Moody or the TCU game.
Early in the season it wasn't rope a dope as much as get in foul trouble and play zone to avoid more.
Recently the trend has been more rope a dope in playing loose defensively in the first half to avoid fouls completely, and then ramp it up during the second half to create space in the scoreline. Will be interesting to see if that trend continues.