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This guy has basically led the country in steals the past two years.

http://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2018/03/20/report-joseph-chartouny-to-transfer-from-fordham/

We have 3 guards and 3 wings/forwards for next year.  Lets get the best players available and play the best strategy with the talent we have. Bring on the 4 guard offense. Pack line into the crapper. Press the whole game. Whatever it takes with the personnel we have.

I would love to see Miller adapt. What that looks like I don't know.  I don't think he will.  He is in love with the pack line.  The only time I recall Miller ever pressing was in late game situations, even then it wasn't done well.  I also think he will have a hard time adapting from a traditional center and power forward lineup to a small ball lineup.  I believe he is going to have to adapt the way the game has changed. 

Quote from: YumaCat on March 21, 2018, 02:49:37 PM
I would love to see Miller adapt. What that looks like I don't know.  I don't think he will.  He is in love with the pack line.  The only time I recall Miller ever pressing was in late game situations, even then it wasn't done well.  I also think he will have a hard time adapting from a traditional center and power forward lineup to a small ball lineup.  I believe he is going to have to adapt the way the game has changed.

Miller definitely needs to begin showing more flexibility. Prior to this year, I had not been on the "He needs to play a zone" bandwagon. Then we witnessed Duke go from something like 76th in the country defensively to top 7 by playing the zone. Miller needs to reevaluate that side of the ball or recruit to fit his system. Long combo guards and mobile bigs.

But I am not too concerned about Miller and small ball lineups. In his second year here, our center was 6'7" Jesse Perry and that team played pretty well. Also, his teams at Xavier were never very tall.

Also, this is exactly the type of guy we should be going all out for. Good height, contributes in a lot of areas (especially defensively), can score.

To be fair, we had the #1 defense in America with the Pack Line in 2014. However, my favorite thing about the way Lute Olson coached was that he always put his best 5 players on the court and then came up with a scheme to fit the players. I think Miller always uses the same scheme every year no matter who is on the team.