re: The Advocate - Will Wade on defense

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'm actually all for this. I thought the amount of different things we tried to do defensively became a little taxing.

One possession we would be in a 2-3, then the next we're in man, then the next we're in a full court press.

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it's not taxing to teach a couple defenses and a press. Hell, we did that in middle school.

Plus, changing defenses during the game confuses the offense. Dale Brown did that all the time, with his "freak" defense. It changed, in real-time. (And Dale wasn't a great x-and-o guy, but the freak defense worked).

ETA: I may be completely wrong about this, but nobody really knew what the freak defense was. I thought I recall Dale explain years later that it was a zone if the offense started their offensive possession on the left side of the floor, and a man-to-man if the offense started on the right. I'm sure there were other nuances, but I believe that's what it was, in its simplest form. So it was confusing as hell to the offense, who never figured out what was happening.