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bluelight05

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  1. While I'm thinking about it, I just thought of another (more funny than informational) situation where this knowledge helped out: in pick-up football I play with my residents here at Pitt on Saturdays.

     

    Usually, there's about 20+ of us, so we can play a full 11-on-11 game with subs. From about early Jan or so, when I play with em, I usually run the defense and a little of the offense of our side. On D, which shocked the heck out of me, we ran a cover two in the tampa mode we want to run here. I was quite amazed to see that with a bunch of 18 and 19 year olds we were able to not only run it effectively (with relatively balanced teams against each other) and get a number of turnovers that "just happened".

     

    After the first week we ran it I thought it was just coincidence, but since we've used it the games went from being lopsided depending on who got the "good qb" out of the 20+ of us, to my team winning 4 straight with a revolving qb.

     

    Now, this is just silly backyard football with a bunch of kids (me at 24 being the oldest) messing around and enjoying a sport we love. But I can now imagine how well an "offensive" defense like that can work for a lean mean fighting machine like TKO, or Fletch or heck even Posey (though I think Crowell may be more of a better fit should we use more zone than last year) will look in this. Or for someone like me with only marginal speed being able to play safety or mlb because I can read where the Qb's going to throw.

     

    I think on Defense, once the coaches finish looking at each player and then evaluating how they fit or who they need to get to fit, we'll see a very fast, very aggressive team like Marv's been saying. The only problem as I see it is over-aggressiveness, or like Gray used to say "trying to do someone else's job". If our safeties play smart and don't bite on the playaction, that goes a long way to stopping the plays that make Brady (and Manning) thorns in the side of defenses, either over the middle or deep.

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    im a freshamn at pitt

  2. Call me when Kobe actually elevates the game of the players around him. Thats the true sign of a superstar.

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    the fact that Parker, Mihm and Brown all still have jobs in the NBA says that hes elavated thier games. Id ask if you watched the game but i already know the answer. when he tried to get his teamates involved they dug him a 16 points deficit. Did you watch the Kings game? he gave them a 7 point lead with 35 seconds to go only to watch Brown blow a gimme of a layup, parker not hustling to save the ball, and odom getting called for a charged on the last play of regulation. If Iverson, james, mcgrady or shaq did this it would be declared a national holiday. only 50 years from now when his records still stand(much like wilts) will we realize how dominating he was. the botton line is that when jordon played baseball his team took the knicks to 7 games of the coferance semis. if kobe quit today to play baseball the lakers would be lucky to win 10 games the rest of the way.

  3. Kobe bryant is taking a team that is absolute Sh*t and is carrying them to the palyoffs. Shaq team is 10x more talented than the lakers and they only have 2 more wins. without kobe that is a 15 win team. hes first team all defense, the best scorer and the most clutch palyer in the league. hes also got 3 rings and is only 27. you talk about assists but who should he pass it too? kwame brown? Chris Mihm? if u were that good and on that bad of a team you would shot the ball alot too. right now he is palying as well is not better than micheal jordon ever did.

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