Will Cal Platoon Next Year?

[Hoskins91_rivals]

Unless everyone is truly equal, there needs to be a clear hierarchy. You need to know who your best guys are, the players need to know it, and they need to play a lot together. That doesn't mean you cant take advantage of depth, or even platoon, but you need to find your best players and play them together so that you can rely on them in a pressure situation.

 

[3rex]

Apparently the negative recruiting isn't working, at all.

Really? You may be right but that remains to be seen.

But the fact is that we've brought in 1 recruiting class since & several of the big names decided to go elsewhere.

 

[Graves51]

And that team lost in the second round. We were not winning anything with Willis being (arguably) our best interior player. Our frontcourt as a whole was too limited.

the BEST BASKETBALL we played this year was during the stretch I mentioned. Willis was undeniably our best rebounder among the bigs in that stretch and an outside shooter, hitting well over 40% from three point land. Did you watch the games?

 

[26MichaelUK]

IMHO, the "platoon system" is not advantageous unless the team that uses the platoon system runs a full-court press for the whole game. Cal demonstrated, with the 2014-15 team (which would have been perfect for the two-platoon, full-game, full-court press), an unwillingness to run a full-game full-court press. Therefore, the only benefit of a "platoon system" would be to get equal playing time for 10 players -- which, IMHO, is counter-productive in that it takes away playing time from the team's five or six best players (see 2014-15). I woiuld guess, therefore, that U.K. will not run a "platoon system" in 2016-17.

Just MHO, of course.

I hate agreeing with you but it was ridiculous that we didn't play fast and force the tempo of the game in 2015. We let the other teams set the pace, which nearly cost us against Notre Dame and did cost us vs Wisconsin.

Also going away from platooning the second half of the year caused us to lose our edge and got us beat.

 

[brianpoe]

A second platoon of Briscoe, Hawkins, Matthews, Willis and Lee isn't totally shabby. I'd like the idea of hammering people defensively vs. guys pacing themselves while playing 32+mpg. What we did last year was pretty eye opening until Poythress got hurt.

Looks pretty shabby to me brother.

Briscoe - cant shoot
Hawkins - occasional wide open spot up
Willis - wide open spot up
Matthews - cant shoot
Lee- no offense

Zero inside game, lacking perimeter shots, only option is driving to the basket.

Defense would be good to great depending on Willis but would they ever score?

 

[3rex]

Looks pretty shabby to me brother.

Briscoe - cant shoot
Hawkins - occasional wide open spot up
Willis - wide open spot up
Matthews - cant shoot
Lee- no offense

Zero inside game, lacking perimeter shots, only option is driving to the basket.

Defense would be good to great depending on Willis but would they ever score?

Yea, at the risk of sounding too negative, I wouldn't want that combination on the floor for too long. If at all.

 

[brianpoe]

Yea, at the risk of sounding too negative, I wouldn't want that combination on the floor for too long. If at all.

When have you ever been accused of being negative...?
[winking]

 

[irishcat1965]

Fox, Monk and Bam will start, that is a given. Cal will work everything else out.

 

[katkraze]

Cal will have so many superstars on that team next year he will have to platoon again.

 

[JonathanW_rivals]

I heard Cal is planning to definitely platoon next year, with the following lineups:
Blue: Wynyard, Bam, Willis, Hawkins, Ulis
White: Bolden, Skal, SKJ, Murray, Fox
Gold: Humphries, Lee, Gabriel, Monk, Briscoe
and then close out the games with the Cigar group of: Matthews, Mulder, Floreal, David, Calipari
So the Blue, White & Gold groups each get 13 minutes, and the Cigar group gets 1 minute.