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BlueK · 12-03-2014, 05:17 PM

I agree with pretty much everything you said. I think Fischer is mostly a 3 specialist who can still be very useful even if he's not necessarily great at other stuff, although I don't think he's necessarily a big liability in other areas. Also, we've been playing him and Winder together quite a bit and Winder is very good at some of the things Fischer doesn't excel at, so it doesn't hurt us most of the time. Having a guy out there on the 3 pt line the other team always has to respect really helps when teams try the tackle and grab Haws strategy.

Also, I think Rose wanted to play man more last year and tried a few times but the set of players he had were terrible at it. This group is a little better, plus I think they've worked harder at it. It will help this team improve from last year. SDSU is really the only game I remember so far where they played mostly zone, but a lot of that is due to SDSU being worse against the zone.\

As far as USU goes, they just aren't very good. A 10 point win in Logan against them probably would have been a 20 point win at ESA or Provo. They have 3 or 4 decent players and nothing else, which isn't that surprising considering two-thirds of their team graduated or transferred out last year. We had to get this win at any cost. It won't help us much this year other than making the road record look better, but losing would have hurt. I do think they're doing a little better this year than what I expected however. Still, about 12 wins is the celing for them, I think.

12-03-2014, 05:17 PM	#1
BlueK Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 2,368	I agree with pretty much everything you said. I think Fischer is mostly a 3 specialist who can still be very useful even if he's not necessarily great at other stuff, although I don't think he's necessarily a big liability in other areas. Also, we've been playing him and Winder together quite a bit and Winder is very good at some of the things Fischer doesn't excel at, so it doesn't hurt us most of the time. Having a guy out there on the 3 pt line the other team always has to respect really helps when teams try the tackle and grab Haws strategy. Also, I think Rose wanted to play man more last year and tried a few times but the set of players he had were terrible at it. This group is a little better, plus I think they've worked harder at it. It will help this team improve from last year. SDSU is really the only game I remember so far where they played mostly zone, but a lot of that is due to SDSU being worse against the zone.\ As far as USU goes, they just aren't very good. A 10 point win in Logan against them probably would have been a 20 point win at ESA or Provo. They have 3 or 4 decent players and nothing else, which isn't that surprising considering two-thirds of their team graduated or transferred out last year. We had to get this win at any cost. It won't help us much this year other than making the road record look better, but losing would have hurt. I do think they're doing a little better this year than what I expected however. Still, about 12 wins is the celing for them, I think. __________________ I am a libertarian Last edited by BlueK; 12-05-2014 at 02:24 PM.