I love platoons as well as long as coach believes it would keep the players happy. Nothing more deflating to the opposition than working with all your might to keep the game close and then a hockey line change comes in fresh with no drop off in talent.
I agree, he's going 10 deep easy. He wants to play up tempo and wear the other team down . You need a good and talented bench to do that and we have that in spades.
Agreed. But I still feel it's best to limit the rotation late in the season in most all circumstances.96 didnt limit it to 8.
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This.
I remember Billy Packer in 96 talking about the Dazzlin’ Dozen before a UK game (in the FF or title game, IIRC). Pitino didn’t shortened the rotation until the last game or two and still played 9 guys.96 didnt limit it to 8.
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Curious, why do you doubt Pope would ever do it? He did line changed multiple teams last year despite not having that much depth.
I suppose I’m saying I doubt he will ever commit to the notion of making it a routine that we rotate 5 players at a time every TV timeout kind like Cal did in 2015. I believe he will be more selective in utilizing all of his pieces.
I agree. Early on Pope will probably sub 4 in at a time after the starters 3 to 5 minutes to start the game (sort of what he did some last year). Then back and forth for the first half. 2nd half of games will be by analytics of how guys are playing that day. Hot shooters, someone really playing defense, someone driving and hitting shots at the rim and so forth.
Yeah, he uses analytics to even figure out how many minutes a player can go full out.
Agreed, Pope is going to base it off of matchups and his data driven approach to peak performance management. If we can get the team to gel and build trust, there shouldn't really be many chemistry issues if he makes executive decisions to run with the hot hand later in the year having proven to the guys that his system works.
Yup.
When you put it like that it looks real nice. Ooh I hope Oweh comes back and if not I hope Pope drops another silenced bomb on BBN to replace him.
This is a good point.
I'm a fan of what Pitino used to do to teams in the 90's and I think Pope learned a lot from his head coach. Press you to death, shoot the 3, sub 5 more new guys, and then run your @ss out of the gym. I guess that would be close to modern day platooning!
Yeah, I could see doing a 25/15 split, that way the starters still get a lot of minutes.
We were not the same defensively once Poythress went down. Lyles was too slow and Booker got abused on switches. ND nearly got us before UW due to pnr defense.
96 was the most dominant team in my fandom (since 1970). Had great depth that was super talented. Full court pressure all game. Other talented teams were beaten into submission by the defensive pressure, as much mentally as well as physically.96 didnt limit it to 8.
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Aberdeen is coming in to push lowe at the pg spot. And no the platoon was a cal thing he can keep that with him at Arkansas or wherever he goes. If pope coaches this team like his 96 team was coached there may be big subs but he’s not going to subscribe to any specific combo of players other than those that night in that game. The platoon is the laziest way to deal with talented depth. It was a patented jvc move” how to lazy your way to success”
I agree with the poster that says Pope will never platoon.
