http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...ml?id=14254820
This isn't necessarily a dumb post per se, but it misses a lot of the nuance of basketball, IMO. A team like Utah that likes to slow the game down wants the other team to always go deep into the shot clock. However, for a team playing BYU's offensive style, that is actually not the optimal thing. BYU's style of play is much better served by having a D that creates early turnovers or can get the other team to take an early bad shot instead of making the other team use most of the shot clock on every possession. Unfortunately for the last 2-3 years BYU hasn't had any good interior defenders who can block shots and allow the perimeter players to play more aggressively. We've also not had Jackson Emery/Abuou type players who are good at creating the perimeter turnovers either. Kaufusi's defense started to emerge the last ten games or so, and I think as a whole our interior defense will be a lot better this time. Also, having Fischer and Haws out there at the same time led to some bad defense. Winder was also hurt most of the year and would have helped. Nick Emery is not the defender his brother was, but he's supposed to be more than capable on that end.