Can't argue with that. The game has changed. But, we have played that penetrating style fairly recently, too. The last #1 seed team featured Brad and Gil slashing to the hoop in a drive and dish offense. As Ashton emerged as a dead-eye shooter, that team evolved to feature him, but those two were skilled penetrators.
Our offense has been much more adaptable than many critics credit. It is flexible enough to feature the strengths of our best players.
This team needs to add some players adept at both creating with dribble penetration and stopping dribble penetration. Damon Wilson is known for getting in the lane to the rim. Mustapha Heron is excellent at that. Josh was supposed to be but for whatever reason last season, he just couldn't finish and his dishes too often ended in oponents' hands.
Our roster is out of balance because we tried to solve the center problem by throwing bodies at it. We tied up three scholarships with non-productive players and ended up playing Mike Young there anyway. Throw in 3 more scholarships to Artis, Jeter and Luther who are all basically 4's and 7 rides are tied up in 2 positions. I know you consider Artis and Jeter more as 3's who are playing at 4 too much but I'm coming from the perspective tbat Dixon likes to play faster, more mobile 3's at 4, not bigger, slower guys at 3.
Jamie is shedding the 3 centers and will likely have only two pure centers on the roster this seaon and probably ongoing. It's possible with no pure center seemingly on the radar for the '16 class, he will go with more versatile 4/5 types, like Young and apparently Manigault in the future.
That should allow more guards and wings and more speed and mobility. A team needs to have more ball-handlers these days than centers.
