[Tom Line]

You will absolutely be seeing more defense as the play improves.

Specifically, ball starvation starts to become an issue. If you have 2 strong shooters on a team they can quickly sweep their side of the field. If the human in bounders are bouncing those scored balls to the other side of the field, it's a necessity to have a robot shooting them back and playing some D. If you simply wait for the other team to score baskets, the matches become a zero-sum game in teleop and all that matters are the bridges.

I expect to see defense in almost every match at the Michigan State Championships.