define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Doug Brooks – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:05:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court VCU Reserves are the X-Factor in Rams’ Recent Surge http://rushthecourt.net/2015/01/08/vcu-reserves-are-the-x-factor-in-rams-recent-surge/ http://rushthecourt.net/2015/01/08/vcu-reserves-are-the-x-factor-in-rams-recent-surge/#respond Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:11:46 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=107156

The book on VCU’s style of play is fairly simple. Defensively, they want to press you full-court to create a bunch of turnovers and resulting easy baskets. Offensively, they shoot a high volume of three-pointers and rely on the quickness of their guards to break down a defense in the waning seconds of a shot clock. That’s pretty much their ethos. But as the program now enters its third season in the Atlantic 10, teams know what’s coming and have begun countering what VCU likes to do. What they are having trouble dealing with, however, isn’t a problem of strategy as much as personnel. [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2015/01/08/vcu-reserves-are-the-x-factor-in-rams-recent-surge/feed/ 0