Illinois Fighting Illini Offensive – Defensive Basketball Playbook

The numbers don’t lie.  Change your defense Hey Coach, If you think the coaches at the top of the game have blind faith in their systems, you’d be mistaken. These guys are committed to winning, not any one dogmatic approach… Just like you and me, it’s adapt or get overrun! Here is a textbook case of a coach who acknowledged a problem and took very specific steps to correct it. Head Coach Brad Underwood was not in a desirable situation… He inherited a “rebuilding” program…(we all know what that means). And after two dismal seasons, he was open to change. His high-pressure defense that has worked so well in JUCO was letting him down. It was time to adapt or die. Here’s what he did to turn the Illini program around and build a top 25 team… Brought in outside help (from the Celtics organization)Studied Sweet Sixteen teams, Big Ten teams, and moreAnalyzed the categories where his team ranked worst“I looked at where we were at in all those things and knew we had to make some changes. What w