Can't recall the last time a team won it all by just playing offense with no defense. Not in college not in the NBA. Sure the Warriors had some years with a new style of offense that had teams on their heels, but they also had guys playing legit defense like Draymond, Iguodala, etc.
We're destined to lose early in the tournament unless that changes. I'll stick to my earlier post that were breaking our sweet sixteen drought this year. But that's about it.
I think any team with a lead guard(s) who can penetrate and score or kick, any decent big who can score inside, and a wing or two who can shoot the three ball a little bit can beat us on any given night.
Bonus points if they can run and jump trap our ballhandlers or post and recover, and god help us if they have a team of aggressive quick on ball D guys.
Imagine us vs Houston or Iowa State or Auburn.
I just don't think we have the quickness to stay in front of people or make them uncomfortable feeding the post or running their sets. We are the Washington Generals on D right now.
We were moving and working much harder on positioning and pack line earlier on. Once we started clicking on offense we have been fucking the dog.
It seems like an effort and intensity thing. But we just are not very quick.
We are near last in country in forcing TOs.
I remember last year when we would talk about the next opposing guard who would have a career night against our shit Olé drop coverage trying to make teams shoot "tough twos".
We were doing better this year in first half. In freefall since.
This year it is picking the guards who can get to the tin at will on us and create havoc.