Duke/Kansas and team defense....

I agree, both have pretty good help defense and know their assignments.

Good cover defense and shot blocking, but very little in the way of getting in passing lanes and picking off passes. That's the main thing I like about Alabama's defense, they are constantly throwing hands around getting steals by invading the passing lanes.

Different styles of defense, both very effective IMO.

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Good defensive rotation is far more difficult than knocking down 3's and high flying dunks. I just don't get how how true basketball fans can't see this.

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Bingo Couldnt agree more

Just the precision in which both teams rotate is astounding. They make 2 to 3 rotations and everybody is where they are supposed to be. That requires 5 guys to be exactly on the same page and see the exact same thing at almost the exact same time. It is so hard to teach much the basics much less the ins and outs of true man defense. Amazing.

bill self's kansas teams are pretty much always a top 3-5 defensive team in college basketball. if you wanna learn how to play defense as a team, just watch them in any given year under self.

I was going to post about how well Alabama's defense plays under Anthony Grant but I see you've already got that covered

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35+ minutes every game, but it's like that for the entire team

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it's our only chance at big time success (probably not that many minutes, though). the starting 5 is legit as hell and are gonna be able to play with anyone when they are on the floor. starting with the 6th man though, there's a very big drop off. naturally, self has known this all along (since mclemore's deal) so maybe there has been a bigger emphasis on conditioning and whatnot or maybe he took them aside and told them they'll play as many minutes as they can or some shite.

anyone that knows anything about kansas this year knows there are only 5 players, so it'll be interesting to see how the year plays out.

Ku does well at holding the other teams shooting%under 50% for the game

my only fear is that Robinson and Whitney Wont be able to play as hard all the time b/c fear of foul trouble. They don't even have a legit bogbto back them up