Like I said Kim runs that intense press, similar to Huggins Press Virginia years. Our league hadn?t faced that style and it didn?t know how to deal with it. The more the league sees it, the better the teams will play against it.
Virginia Tech had almost 3 weeks to prepare for our press and experience against the press and I?m sure all the interested ADs saw what happened, they beat us by nearly 50.
A press all the time system is sort of like the triple option in football. It works and Navy and Georgia Tech have beat the who?s who of college football with it. It?s a system that basically wins by out working , wearing the opponent down and having more heart than your opponent. It makes up for a lack of size and it doesn?t take elite skill to make it work. I think the more our league sees it the harder it will be to win, but each and every game is a fight so we always have a chance on any given night.
I don?t think the elite woman?s programs are necessary looking to run a press system, because when you play in a conference with elite guards they break the press down and find open players. Also are elite skilled recruits excited to go play 6 mins and 43 seconds a game, are they willing to go from taking 20 shots a game to taking 4. I think press all the time is regarded as a gimmicky system, that you run when you don?t have the athletes to play straight up, but I could be wrong.
If the system is so great hire a men?s coach that presses from tip to whistle.