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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Secondly, you can disagree all you want. I don't care what you consider to be "defense" or not (especially in terms of only somewhat equivalent sports analogies). I don't care if I'm playing excellent "defense" or a "ball possession offense" if my opponent's score is low. They both accomplish the same thing, and in my book, it's defense.
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I think it is obvious that we will have to agree to disagree on a minor difference of opinion. I certainly agree that at the end of the day (or match) it is about scoring more than your opponent and there are many ways to do that. It doesn't matter if you call it 'defense', 'ball possession offense', "all offense", "rush", or whatever. I think we both understand and agree on what good strategies are but just label differently. No worries.
I think that the original intent of the thread was to discuss how to scout for the 'traditional' ( pushing, screening, blocking, pinning...) defense. I'm not sure ball possession and clearing fulfill the critera. If it is included in scouting for defense, than I think keeping track of balls advanced is clearly the best option.