[Maple Leaf]

Arizona applied moderate pressure and we had 21 turnovers, and that's with an accomplished point guard and three potential ballhandlers.  I wonder what would have happened had they tried to do a full court press.

Next year, if I am an opposing coach, I would try to see if I can force Stanford into some turnovers and easy points with full court pressure.  I expect that next year we will have an excellent defense and a very good half-court offense with weapons in at least 4 out of the 5 positions (maybe even 5/5 if you have a lineup that goes Jump, Hull, Jones, Prechtel, and Brink with Jones as the ballhandler), but unproven ballhandling.  So, your best bet is to disrupt Stanford's ability to get it's half-court offense set and try to score in transition off turnovers.  It almost worked for Arizona, and they didn't even do a full-court press.

BC

Zona tried out the full court press on Stanford during the second regular season game with not much success IIRC, only delaying Stanford from getting into their offense.  If you run a full course press for an extensive length of time it will "fatigue" your defense, so if you do press you need to generate points to off set what may happen to regular defense and to some extent your offense, some programs have sufficient depth and physical talent at the guard/sf positions to be successful.

[Maple Leaf]

Arizona applied moderate pressure and we had 21 turnovers, and that's with an accomplished point guard and three potential ballhandlers.  I wonder what would have happened had they tried to do a full court press.

Next year, if I am an opposing coach, I would try to see if I can force Stanford into some turnovers and easy points with full court pressure.  I expect that next year we will have an excellent defense and a very good half-court offense with weapons in at least 4 out of the 5 positions (maybe even 5/5 if you have a lineup that goes Jump, Hull, Jones, Prechtel, and Brink with Jones as the ballhandler), but unproven ballhandling.  So, your best bet is to disrupt Stanford's ability to get it's half-court offense set and try to score in transition off turnovers.  It almost worked for Arizona, and they didn't even do a full-court press.

BC

Zona tried out the full court press on Stanford during the second regular season game with not much success IIRC, only delaying Stanford from getting into their offense.  If you run a full course press for an extensive length of time it will "fatigue" your defense, so if you do press you need to generate points to off set what may happen to regular defense and to some extent your offense, some programs have sufficient depth and physical talent at the guard/sf positions to be successful.