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Re: Vetting defensive picks

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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann View Post
False, playing defense doesn't have to be a bumper to bumper pushing match. Every second you cause the other team to waste is time well spent.

Though most teams don't have the practice with mecanums to play defense well with them.
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Originally Posted by Ari423 View Post
My team has played defense for 2 seasons with mecanums. It's not impossible, and when you're good at it, it can wreak havoc on robots that show when they're about to shoot. In 2011, we were the 2nd seed at the Philadelphia regional with a mecanum robot that didn't have any manipulator just because of our driver's ability to play defense. That being said, it would take a very special case for me to pick a mecanum robot as a dedicated defense robot.

Any tank drive robot with a bit of driver practice can play effective defense. The same can only be said about exemplary mecanum robots with a lot more driver practice.

2013 Arkansas Razorback Regional we ended up playing harassment defense on mecanum wheels and a tall robot. Zip around the pyramid and midfield and make them always take the long way and force them to not full court shoot. Something similar could be done this year if they're a retrieval zone robot, where you make them go completely around the airship rather than bee line from one corner to the other. And man, delaying a gear cycle...
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