That's the kind of process I am thinking. Kind of. Thing is, it's kinda "bass-ackwards" a bit. For LI, we need to come up with a defensive scheme (defense+build) that renders it a weaker performer. That's the key. It doesn't matter if we can't come up with an offense that "beats LI" - we simply need to score more with the same offense if needs be. Thus... stopping it. I know that it's not a simple task, and will prove difficult... but in line with what wolph just suggested - I've even had conversations with Swoosh about my willingness to work SB into K-Mat's build, at the expense of a little ID.
Offensively, we can either continue LI, or come up with a scheme that benefits from being played vs M2M. My guess would be a very high amount of handling/passing and maybe even driving - even on bigs - combined with motion or R&G.
Just a thought... again, all of these come at a sacrifice of something else. But (regardless of some nay-sayers here) we're NEVER going to compete much higher than we are now following suit with those ranked better than us.
Last edited by malice at 7/16/2013 4:48:42 AM
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